Chemistry Major at UCSB

tfizzle
Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:07:01 +0000

Hold up… I am a senior Chem major (former Biochem major), & for the more general science classes (chem,bio, especially physics), the labs are a little budget. But thats because everyone needs to learn the basic stuff first. After all the general pre-major classes, the labs get pretty intense. Basically, the biochem lab is designed to prepare a student to go straight into the industry if they wanted after they graduate, it is SUPER demanding. I dropped the biochem major soley on the fact that the lab took away too much time from my other classes (biochemistry, biophysical chemistry, & Analytical chemistry). To this day, the people i see still in the lab look like absolute ***** every day, always falling asleep in class, dark shadows under their eyes, & just plain depressed.

You will get to use pretty amazing equipment even as an undergrad, even more so as a grad student. But if you want to use the “state of the art” crap, then get an internship in that area & you will be able to use multimillion dollar machines you only hear about (my buddys making graphene & plasmas using some of the craziest things ive ever seen).

Basically, dont get excited over an MRI machine.

P.S get an internship early, try a few of them, because you might not have so much time to have them as you enter your upper division classes, the work load is heavy.

Good luck D