What area of science do you enjoy most?

[Drrrrrr. Celty]

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And no, I'm not talking broad fields like biology or physics, but rather small concentrations that you would potentially study if you weren't premed, like evolutionary biology, or particle physics, etc.

 

[LazyElemental]

Metal catalysts or organic synthesis

 

[flatearth22]

If the economy wasn't so bad and the industry so corrupt and volatile I probably would have gone to grad school in chemistry to peruse such a career - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_design

 

[El Nino]

Organic Synthesis 🙂 I would also do drug design

 

[Slowpoke]

Neurobiology of learning and memory!

 

[sliceofbread136]

I would be a math major.

 

[Cinclus]

And no, I'm not talking broad fields like biology or physics, but rather small concentrations that you would potentially study if you weren't premed, like evolutionary biology, or particle physics, etc.

I actually looked into getting a PhD in this field at one point; U Chicago has a great program. I've always been fascinated by the connectedness of life, and I began undergrad with a focus in ecology & evolution. I wound up doing genetics and molecular bio (molecular genetics of aging and cancer, to be precise) and getting an MS in that, instead. I didn't decide on medicine until grad school.

 

[Tots]

Molecular evolution of infectious diseases and infectious disease epidemiology

 

[circulus vitios]

Observational astronomy, shock physics, laser physics, applied plasma physics, astrophysics. They're all interesting.

Organic synthesis is sexy, even though I'm a terrible organic chemistry student.

 

[EBTrailRunner]

Pharmacogenomics

 

[DVolle]

I'm really liking organic geochemistry in my geology program. If I weren't going to med school I would probably pursue it. I'm interested mainly in characterizing crude oils and typing them back to their direct source.

 

[deleted357625]

Neural plasticity regarding many disorders or change following traumatic events
Neurobiology of sleep behavior/disorders
neurobiology of aging and memory/learning regarding AHP plasticity

 

[synthmonsterjax]

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[Drrrrrr. Celty]

I actually looked into getting a PhD in this field at one point; U Chicago has a great program. I've always been fascinated by the connectedness of life, and I began undergrad with a focus in ecology & evolution. I wound up doing genetics and molecular bio (molecular genetics of aging and cancer, to be precise) and getting an MS in that, instead. I didn't decide on medicine until grad school.

Evolution is pretty much the best . I actually think in particular Neuroethology is really fantastic, I could totally enjoy that field forever.

 

[Mountaineer12]

Micro, I wish I would have discovered my school's micro major sooner, alas.

 

[crmellon]

Physical Chemistry. Also, AO and MO theory.

 

[At0mic]

Probably astrophysics. That was what I most interested in before I decided on medicine.

 

[elemily]

I would have loved to pursue something in nanotechnology. not exactly science, more engineering based.

 

[1TB4RKSB4CK]

Neurobiological systems.

 

[Hipster]

Female human anatomy


is what I would be studying if I wasn't premed

 

[Praefectus]

Astrophysics or cancer research.

 

[EBTrailRunner]

Female human anatomy


is what I would be studying if I wasn't premed

I see ob/gyn in your future...

 

[chinsucl]

Math

 

[WildEMDoc]

Animal communication and social dynamics (ie Big cats of Africa and wolf packs)

or

DNA vaccine development

or I would get a physics degree and study antimatter

 

[572776]

Anything in biochem, especially enzyme kinetics 😍. Molecular genetics, Molecular anything pretty much. Neurobio is pretty neat too.

 

[frutiaspice]

Protein engineering, Synthetic bio, maybe some aspects of Neurobio.

 

[CeeEstee0]

Polymer Chemistry.

 

[Cerena]

Organic chemistry or neuroscience 🙂

 

[umichman]

Microbiology. No doubt.

 

[Ansar]

Low-temperature Physics (superfluids)
Superconductors
Mathematical Physics

 

[Neurosis]

behavioral neuroscience (biological psychology) + abnormal psychology.

 

[TheCheckmate]

Evolutionary psychology

 

[Narmerguy]

Statistical genetics or protein function annotation.

 

[druggeek]

1) Anatomy
2) Pathophysiology
3) Astrophysics
4) Theoritical Physics
5) Neurophysiology
6) Exercise Physiology
7) Pathology
8) Quantum Mechanics

 

[Ansar]

Physical Chemistry. Also, AO and MO theory.

grrrr MO theory T_T

So mind wrecking

 

[ShockDoctrine]

polymer chemistry

pharmacological neuroscience

 

[Nymphicus]

Psychology

 

[Nymphicus]

Psychology

Oh wait you said science...

 

[twizzlers713]

Organic synthesis is what I'd be most apt to go for

 

[JESSFALLING]

Earthquake engineering and seismology

 

[Neurosis]

Psychology

Oh wait you said science...

really?

 

[StoicJosher]

Evolutionary psychology

👍👍👍

 

[Hipster]

really?

Yes really...

Psychology is a pretty subjective area of study....



Chemistry:

Atoms bond blah blah blah - facts

Math:

1+1=2 d/dx 3x^2 = 6x blah blah blah - fact

Engineering:

Integrating over the wing gives you the forces blah blah blah - fact

Biology:

This signaling pathway does blah blah blah - fact

Psychology:

Open to too many interpretations/ too much guess work/ too many people coming up with theories based on what they think happened instead of solid proof. Oh wait that "solid proof" is called neuroscience. The way you go about collecting data doesn't make the thing you are collecting data from a science. And besides, 90% of the people I have met in psychology are socially awkward and want to psychoanalyze people because they think its "cool".

 

[iqe2010]

Since entering college I've discovered that I actually hate science until the teacher relates to medicine (which doesn't happen very often). But I really do enjoy the brief time we talk about the nervous system, which is why I think neurology is my calling. (either that FM or EM)

 

[Neurosis]

Yes really...
Psychology is a pretty subjective area of study....
Psychology:
Open to too many interpretations/ too much guess work/ too many people coming
up with theories based on what they think happened instead of solid proof. Oh
wait that "solid proof" is called neuroscience. The way you go about collecting
data doesn't make the thing you are collecting data from a science

You clearly haven't taken beyond a 100 level psych class if you think psychology is mainly subjective. And what theories are you talking about? Before you give me some bs quote from freudian psychologists you have to realize that most sciences evolve from speculation/philosophical questions, just like psychology had some unscientific beginnings, so did other "more" scientific fields like biology (people once thought we had things called "humors" controling our behavior), chemistry (alchemy) astronomy (geocentric universe) etc... so yes you could argue that psychology isn't a science based on a few famous (read: popular) theories from the late 1800's and early 1900's but that's not what modern psychology is about.

 

[Professor Deej]

Genetics or Virology for gene therapy

 

[Morsetlis]

Immunology, of course. My IL-2Ry knockout mice...

 

[Govols13]

Anatomy.

Specifically the musculoskeletal system

 

[Lil Mick]

1) Artificial Intelligence/Mathematical Physics applied to medical research (my career)
2) Lie algebra (specifically the E8 group used in M-theory physics)
3) Differential geometry in general (specifically the 4-D Poincare Conjecture)
4) Quantum evolutionary algorithms in multi-objective optimization problems
5) Numerical methods in optimization and nonparametric statistics
6) Magma composition in ultra-plinian eruptions
7) Behavioral psychology applied to shark populations

I might also want to take a stab at some combinatoric topology, algebraic geometry, information theory... It's probably a good thing that I'm in math for my research.

 

[TheMightySmiter]

Drug synthesis. Yeah Big Pharma.