Hello, /sci/. I'm currently a junior in High school, and I am thinking of my future college options. The major that I would like most would be Astronomy, but I also am very talented in Biology. Which would be best to follow, and what are some other successful majors?

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Anonymous Sat Mar 26 18:10:37 2011 No.2778581 [Reply] [Original]

Hello, /sci/.

I'm currently a junior in High school, and I am thinking of my future college options.

The major that I would like most would be Astronomy, but I also am very talented in Biology.

Which would be best to follow, and what are some other successful majors?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 26 18:14:37 2011 No.2778608 Whatever gives you enough money and personal satisfaction to be happy and be able to live. Start researching careers. Pay less attention to your major, and you'll be fine. Or be like me, and be re-enrolling at 26 because you hate your fucking life.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 26 18:18:37 2011 No.2778620 Those are actually fairly different. If you like physics and complex mathematical problems, go with astronomy. If you like a less fundamental and more related to life science and MUCH less mathematics, go with biology.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 26 18:20:37 2011 No.2778630 Why not both, OP? http://library.thinkquest.org/C003763/index.php?page=astro02

Anonymous Sat Mar 26 18:23:37 2011 No.2778652

It doesn't matter what you decide just know how much it is going to suck. Read the course catalogue carefully and maybe interview some of the professors. Although you won't know how to read them until you have had to deal with more of them. Astronomy is a hard one to make some money in. Unless you want to go to grad school and study anomalies.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 26 18:23:37 2011 No.2778654 >>2778630 I'll have to look into what colleges have Astrobiology degrees, that is very interesting though.

Anonymous Sat Mar 26 20:11:37 2011 No.2779110

>http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astrobiologist/question/?id=477

>http://wps.aw.com/wps/media/objects/261/267871/instres/astbio.html

>http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/UHNAI/main.htm

Old links, but they might put you in the right direction. Hopefully they will be of some help. Everyone's advice in this thread is right on the mark. Please heed it for your own sake.

>>2778608

I know how you feel exactly.

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