<p>Hey guys, do any of you have any experience with neuroscience as undergraduate students? If so, how is it alongside a Pre-Med track? Did you find it to be more/less difficult than majors like biology and was it manageable? How are the research/intern opportunities?</p>
<p>It would really help me out if you could share your thoughts. Thanks! :D</p>
<p>bump bump :)</p>
<p>i did work in a neuro lab. it was the most painful experience of my life. going to work every day felt like driving hot needles through your fingertip.</p>
<p>it overlaps significantly with biology; the neuroscience major in my school is in the school of biological sciences. that means you won’t get the skills you need to succeed in the real world, as they only teach mindless memorization. that’ll help you in med school but you have to question whether you can handle 8 years of memorizing telephone book sized tomes.</p>
<p>my recommendation is: go for engineering, finance, computer science, chemistry or physics. if you have your heart set on premed, liberal arts is the way to go. it raises your GPA and liberal arts trains critical thinking ability instead of brute force memorization like biology does. after seeing the ethical standards of bio students in my school, i am convinced that history and english majors make better doctors than bio majors.</p>
<p>this is coming from a former biology major that has completed all graduation requirements, wasted 3 years, and decided to cut the losses and stay another year to complete a better and more employable major.</p>
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<p>Thanks for your advice! I see what you’re saying about the memorization but I feel that my interests lie in the health sciences, especially neuroscience. At the moment, I think this is what I’m planning on doing. Your lab experience seems rather rough but hopefully, not all are like that? Thank you for your thoughts again!</p>
<p>if you truly feel like you are doctor material, liberal arts educations such as medical anthropology, philosophy/history of science and medicine, political science, or even math type majors such as biostatistics or epidemiology, can be more helpful than an actual biology (or even chemistry/physics/engineering) degree. Statistics type majors usually don’t kill your GPA the way physical sciences and engineering does, while it sets up skills useful both in medical school and if you choose, outside of medicine. Hospitals and government/UN disease research centers hire alot of statistics people for infectious disease modeling, and the insight given by statistics may be very useful in being a doctor.</p>
<p>Haha yep, I will definitely keep an open mind in terms of selecting majors. 
Thanks for your opinion, I’ll see what happens when I get to college and perhaps, certain experiences or classes will lead me down different paths.</p>