College is difficult and requires a lot of work, no matter what major you have. However, when you’re a science major, it always feels like you’re worse off than anyone else. You’re in the library all semester, when everyone else just shows up during finals. You not only have lecture exams, but also have lab exams (which are usually harder). After you get through the required core classes, you have 3, 4, or even 5 science classes on your schedule during a single semester. Science life is hard, and in honor of the fall semester starting soon, here are things all science majors know to be true.
1. People apologize when they find out!
Everyone: “What’s your major?
Me: “Biology!”
Everyone:
2. You get sleep deprived before the halfway point in the semester.
3. You feel overwhelmed anytime you start to study for an exam.
4. People don’t understand you have to study a full week before your exam, usually more than that.
Friend: “Wyd?”
Me: “Studying”
Friend: “Oh, you have an exam tomorrow?”
Me: “No, it’s a week from tomorrow”
Friend:
5. Sometimes you get an exam that is so difficult, you just don’t even know how to handle it.
6. When you study for a week and a half and get an 84% on your exam, it’s something to celebrate.
7. And when you actually ace an exam, you feel like this because it is such a rare occurrence:
8. Your non-science major friends are genuinely surprised when you decide to actually do something fun, instead of sit around and study!
9. You’re never completely having fun when you’re supposed to be having fun because in the back of your mind you are thinking that you should be studying.
On the outside:
On the inside:
10. Literally no matter the situation, you are always thinking about school.
11. Everyone’s camera rolls have pictures of friends and fun things, meanwhile your camera roll looks like this:
12. When you meet new people and they ask you what you do for fun, your answer is most likely “I don’t have a lot of fun, I study a lot.” Their response is usually something like this:
13. And when the semester is finally over, you do one of three things:
Celebrate
Catch up on your sleep
or sit there in boredom because you never have this much free time
Good Luck this semester to everyone, especially all of my fellow science majors. May the odds be ever in your favor.
