What is Your Favorite Science?

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What is your favorite area of science?

  • Biology

    Votes: 44 35.8%

  • Botany

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Chemistry

    Votes: 33 26.8%

  • Geology

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • Environmental Science

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Zoology

    Votes: 5 4.1%

  • Astronomy

    Votes: 10 8.1%

  • Physics

    Votes: 19 15.4%

  • Engineering

    Votes: 2 1.6%

  • Other

    Votes: 9 7.3%
  • Total voters
    123
How dare you not represent psychology and neuroscience!!!!!! ;p
 
female anatomy.

so i vote for biology.
 
Does Bootyology count?



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I'm biology major, but I hate its pure memorization and no problem solving. I love chemistry though, particularly organic/biochemistry, thought about changing my major to biochem but it's kid of late and my graduation would be delayed.
 
Psychology and neuroscience.
 
Electronegative said:
I'm biology major, but I hate its pure memorization and no problem solving. I love chemistry though, particularly organic/biochemistry, thought about changing my major to biochem but it's kid of late and my graduation would be delayed.
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My feelings exactly. I love chem 20x more than biology but I'm stuck.
 
Electronegative said:
I'm biology major, but I hate its pure memorization and no problem solving. I love chemistry though, particularly organic/biochemistry, thought about changing my major to biochem but it's kid of late and my graduation would be delayed.
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There's plenty of problem solving in bio. Taken genetics? Also, most of the bio courses I've had require a lot of problem solving of the type "At the cellular level, Disease X presents with characteristics A, B, C, and D...What pathways were affected, where in the pathway is there a mutation, what mutations have likely occurred, and how?..." or "If Z cells were treated with compounds 1, 2, and 3, what processes would be affected, and what behavioral changes would occur?" or presenting experimental results or scenarios and analyzing them/finding a solutions, etc. In my experience, there isn't any more problem solving in biochem than this, either.

I picked chemistry. I was a chem major for awhile, but like you I started too late and it would have taken me too long to finish. Dropped it like it's hot.
 
i like biology the best! but i disagree that biology is all memorization and no problem solving. of course there is problem solving in biology! how do you think all the knowledge came about? Most of my college biology courses didn't require much memorization as a majority of my tests were open book, but required much thinking. the other majors looked down on us for being weak and soft, but they would be required to take one quarter and they'd hate it so much
 
StupidCal said:
i like biology the best! but i disagree that biology is all memorization and no problem solving. of course there is problem solving in biology! how do you think all the knowledge came about? Most of my college biology courses didn't require much memorization as a majority of my tests were open book, but required much thinking. the other majors looked down on us for being weak and soft, but they would be required to take one quarter and they'd hate it so much
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is this normal? I never had an open book test in any class....
 
Mbeas said:
is this normal? I never had an open book test in any class....
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Wasn't normal at my school. Truthfully, though, in the few open-book tests I've taken, they were designed so that the book was essentially useless.
 
I would take biology all day long if it would get me out of chemistry 🙁
 
Mbeas said:
is this normal? I never had an open book test in any class....
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This. It isn't the first time I've heard someone say they've had an open book bio test.

No matter how much "problem solving" or whatever there is on the test, I can't imagine it being hard if you have the book right in front of you...
 
Math is not a science. Math deals in proofs, science deals with preponderance of evidence. Science is also a study of the natural world, and there are plenty of mathematical constructs that do not (and in many cases cannot) exist in the physical world.
 
but there are also plenty of math constructs that DO exist in the physical world such as modeling equations to explain natural phenomena. i suppose, in the end, it boils down to your definitions of both science and mathematics.
 
PreMedder said:
but there are also plenty of math constructs that DO exist in the physical world such as modeling equations to explain natural phenomena. i suppose, in the end, it boils down to your definitions of both science and mathematics.
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Yea, we see the phenomena and we use math to model it. Like we use the English (or whatever other) language to describe it. Neither is science. Math works on proof, there are no proofs in science. It is (IMO) a very fundamental difference. Science is the systematic investigation of the natural world. You could create all the math proofs you want without learning a single thing about the natural world (see an example in my avatar). The physical laws are modeled using mathematics, but they are not mathematical proofs. F=ma is not a mathematical proof, it's a relationship based on physical observations and hypothesis, which is then used to come up with other rules.

Once you get into saying something is an irrefutable fact, like you can in Mathematics, it is no longer science.
 
1) Astronomy 2) Biology. So, umm, Astrobiology I guess?

Seriously though, if I were any good in math, I would probably be majoring in physics with a concentration in astronomy (my school offers one) but, alas, astronomy is more than just looking stars and planets.
 
meteorology, since apparently the bar for passing isn't particularly high
 
bigbad said:
This. It isn't the first time I've heard someone say they've had an open book bio test.

No matter how much "problem solving" or whatever there is on the test, I can't imagine it being hard if you have the book right in front of you...
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The only open book tests I've ever had were full weekend ordeals. I'd take a one hour, in class, closed book essay exam over one of those monsters.

Anyway, my vote is for Weird Science.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDe5Ckt4joQ&feature=related
 
i'm surprised no one is reppin for engineering.
 
I voted astronomy, but I don't if I really should have since I have a broad but very layman understanding of the subject. I spend a lot of time reading books by astronomers and astrophysicists, but I'm sure the science itself would kick my ass.

I know tons of people hate biology because it seems to be just the brute memorization of facts, but I really don't think it is. I think it's just that before you can use those reasoning skills you have to master a lot more information than other fields where you can solve complex problems using the basic paradigms of the subjects.

I guess that's why I chose to pursue medicine, I want to be apply all (or most) of the biology I'll learn throughout the years to some type of real world application (and I hate research so I'm not going that route).
 
indya said:
i'm surprised no one is reppin for engineering.
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Because like math, engineering is not science. Like medicine is not. Both medicine and engineering are applications of existing scientific principles to solve problems.
 
This question is pretty much like asking what you're majoring in. I majored in Molecular & Cellular Biology and I agree with others who have said that the majority of this field involves memorization rather than concepts. The only classes where I really had to think in were physiology (obviously) and immunology (surprisingly). Genetics, biochem, cell bio, etc, were really easy because they primarily required memorization in order to master them. They were hard in the sense that they were time consuming. I do wish that I majored in physics though. I absolutely love the conceptual nature of that field and some of the quantum stuff that's going on right now is ridiculous awesome!

Either way, I don't really consider science to be a subject like biology, chemistry, etc. Science is a method which we use to try to gain an understanding of the world.
 
bigbad said:
This. It isn't the first time I've heard someone say they've had an open book bio test.

No matter how much "problem solving" or whatever there is on the test, I can't imagine it being hard if you have the book right in front of you...
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Then you obviously haven't had rigorous classes.
 
0 Botany, 0 environmental science, 1 Geology...apparently no one gives a **** about the environment here 😛
 
boggvir said:
Because like math, engineering is not science. Like medicine is not. Both medicine and engineering are applications of existing scientific principles to solve problems.
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Molecular biology. Ironically one of the few biology classes I didn't take.
 
Well yea, math > all of course. I'm a math major. I'm actually surprised people think it's 'science'. It makes no sense. There is no scientific process. There is no experiment. There is no inductive reasoning to come up with a theory to fit a bunch of empirical data. There are no predictions of natural phenomena that can then refute the theory. F=ma is a physical relationship described by math. There is no proof for f=ma, it is not a mathematical law.

Just because something is used in science does not make it a science. Conversely, just because you use scientific principles in something also does not make it a science.

I've actually never heard of a definition of science that included math - maybe someone can enlighten me. It'd be cool to think my degree was in the sciences 😛.
 
Physics. If I had to become a scientist I feel like physics would be the deepest and most rewarding 😎

Only because biology research is so painfully tedious and chemistry research just isn't as mind blowing (I'm a chemistry major though lol). Although medical research could be huge too if you develop a cure for something.

but yeah physics is mind blowing and even spiritual in a sense (kinda explains why quantum physicists can be so out of their minds)
 
indya said:
What is your favorite area of science? (e.g Physics, Astronomy, Biology, Environmental Science, Geology, Chemistry, etc.)
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Biology. Chemistry is a close second.
 
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