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Jan 27, 2006 16:09

So I decided I want to be a molecular biologist. I registered at ccsf
where I am going to pursue a transfer associate in biology. Then my plan is to transfer to a state college for a BS in biology. Then I am not sure, but I am sure there are very smart people out there whose unpleasant job it is to guide my thru my educational goals to the end ( Read more... )

school, plz advz

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simulacrum January 28 2006, 00:34:20 UTC

Well my friend Ellen got her degree in Mollecular and Cell Biology from UC Berkeley. She's now getting closer to finishing her Ph.D. at UC San Diego.

agntprovocateur January 28 2006, 00:46:56 UTC

i would suggest talking to people in the field, they would know what schools to pursue. you might contact one/more biologists working at UCSF. the ones i met there were really nice. but this was a while back and they were researchers, part of the human genome project. they might even be open to mentoring , if you are into that.

mooflyfoof January 28 2006, 00:52:30 UTC

Well, Berkeley of course.

nattotastic January 28 2006, 01:08:50 UTC

I know a couple of biologists who graduated from UC Santa Cruz. Don't know if that means it's a good school or not, but these friends have not had a problem staying gainfully employed.

Also, as mentioned above, UC Berkeley is a top notch school for the sciences.

Off hand, why Molecular Biologist?

hep January 28 2006, 02:30:01 UTC

I decided it sounded really interesting, but if I decide I don't want to do it there is a lot of other really neat stuff happening in bio right now so I have mad options. I like science a lot and it seems to be a really interesting direction right now. I am going to look at both UCSC and berk fo sheezy. Berk was on my short list to begin with, and I am going to look at Stanford too I think.

p3rlm0nk January 28 2006, 01:31:05 UTC

(** sigh, wtf lj, i was logged in! :P, anyway, dupe of anon comment for sake of discussion ( ... )

p3rlm0nk January 28 2006, 01:33:12 UTC

BTW a lot of people freak out about organic, if you haven't had it, but it's not terrible. The secret is to look for the rules that you can abstract from all the massive amounts of reactions so that you can sort of predict without having to memorize what a rxn system will do. (And all of those rules can be summed up as "electrons are negative, and will go towards positive or partially positive areas on the target". ;))

hep January 28 2006, 02:34:05 UTC

a+++ i am sure you will soon see many panicked omg im overwhelmed with [x]class rants soon from me so any tips are appreciated!