<p>I start school next month and for my first term i have ‘College Writing’.
When it comes to sciences and mathematics i am much more confident on top of the fact that i have been out of school for fourteen years. I enjoy reading on a casual level but i feel that writing is a different monster. I want to ace it not just pass.
what should i look forward to?
what can i do to prepare for this class?
also as far as a surgery perspective is there any benefit for biochem as opposed to biology or chemistry?</p>
<p>Certainly you are aware that this course will take a lot of time.</p>
<p>Write everything early. Very early. Within the first third of the time that you have available to write it. Submit it to your professor as soon as you have a non-embarassing draft available, get his/her feedback, and adjust appropriately. Sometimes submitting a second draft for further feedback is even a good idea, although many professors are not available for this.</p>
<p>If you are referring to a major, then no, majors as a general rule don’t matter. Taking biochemistry as a course is a good idea.</p>
<p>agree with bdm. Most profs are very willing to look at an early draft of your writing and give you some input. If not, many schools have a peer writing type of group that will help edit your paper.
Most importantly, write everything VERY early, as bdm said.i noticed that when i did that in my writing class, my grades improved significantly.</p>
<p>Excellent feedback guys, I feel a bit better now. I didn’t realize that those options were available.
I was hoping that biochem would be the way to go. The biology courses at the school i will be attending seem to be redundant, which i have read in other posts from you guys. I assume that I will not need courses like anatomy since that is taught in med school, and many of the courses are more related to Botony. At any rate biochem seems more interesting.
Another question though. I am monolingual and have thought of taking up another language, however not in my first year. I believe that another language would be important but don’t see anything in the forums on the subject. I have been tossing the idea of either Mandarin or Japanese, because they are major languages that are not often second languages and i like Asian cultures.
My thought was not to necessarily take classes but maybe something like Rosetta Stone. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Basically anything you major in will bring you beyond what you need for medical school, whether biology or biochemistry.</p>
<p>While you definitely will learn anatomy in medical school, obviously doing some as an undergrad will make it easier once you get to medical school.</p>
<p>It’s my opinion that everybody in the world should know five languages. (I definitely do not.) In order: English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Russian. Part of it will depend on where you want to practice medicine, I guess, but I can’t imagine any situation where Spanish would not be the most useful second language. (Travelling internationally to Asia, I guess?)</p>