What classes did you love in undergrad ? What do they indicate ?

[SweetBottomAnn]

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I am about to start medical school and something that kind of worries me is that I enjoyed them chemistry classes much more than the biology classes. I especially enjoyed organic I, II and advanced organic. I also enjoyed all the upper lever biochem classes that actually made you do the chemistry.

I did not enjoy any of the three physiology classes I took nor did I find the other bio classes interesting.

In my understanding medical school is essentially a zillion memorization biology classes. So I am a little afraid of the transition. I bet I am not the only person in this postion. I also bet the engineering majors have a worse transition than me coming up. They are used to almost all quantitative classes and now they are going to spend the next two years memorizing. I hope it works out for all if us.

 

[RayhanS1282]

I am about to start medical school and something that kind of worries me is that I enjoyed them chemistry classes much more than the biology classes. I especially enjoyed organic I, II and advanced organic. I also enjoyed all the upper lever biochem classes that actually made you do the chemistry.

I did not enjoy any of the three physiology classes I took nor did I find the other bio classes interesting.

In my understanding medical school is essentially a zillion memorization biology classes. So I am a little afraid of the transition. I bet I am not the only person in this postion. I also bet the engineering majors have a worse transition than me coming up. They are used to almost all quantitative classes and now they are going to spend the next two years memorizing. I hope it works out for all if us.

I liked Orgo and physiology....that means I am a nerd. I also liked this philosophy class I took called "Moral Perspectives of Health Care" which is better than any ethics books you'll ever read and I also liked "Christian Theology" class I took. And since I liked philosophy and theology classes, that means I am faux-emo.

 

[Robizzle]

hmm, i can understand how u wouldn't like bio because of maybe your professors or the way the classes were structured.. but if you plan on doing medicine and have a real passion for it, don't you think that liking physiology and other bio classes is necessary? Do you atleast like the MATERIAL that the classes covered?

i'm a BME, and you're right, most my classes have been quantitative. the TWO (yes only 2 semesters total of bio, cell bio and physio) biology classes that i've taken during my undergrad so far have been disappointing in the sense that i've just had to memorize tons of material without being able to stop and actually enjoy what i was memorizing. if i had more time, i'm sure i would have enjoyed it more because the topics were interesting. but yea, i prefer my higher level BME classes over the prereq bio classes.

 

[earlybird]

orgo is the best class in fact any chem is better than bio.

 

[americanangel]

any chem is better than bio.

I second that...Chem is much better then biology....But my favorite class is a toss up---Ethics or Biochemistry...I love mechanisms and pathways and I love to argue...so its a real toss up! 🙂

 

[jbrice1639]

i loved creative writing...majored in it...

that indicated that a career in advertising would probably be fun, so i did that.

i was wrong.

so i wouldn't necessarily put too much weight into what courses you enjoy determining whether you should go into medicine.

however, as someone mentioned, if you find physiology completely uninteresting as a subject, regardless of the class quality, that might be a problem. a complete lack of interest in biological processes will make med school quite unpleasant...

 

[Purna]

I'm about to start med school too and I'm really worried. I loved my stats, epi, math, and even physics courses x10 over my bio and biochem courses. I think I hate memorization. That might be problematic. I'm predicting a major struggle.