As a biology major, I can say that this major is very rewarding in its own ways. At times, it feels like the best major in the world, which it probably is, but at other times, it feels as if the entire world is crashing while you're on fire and half of your face is blown out. No, that's not an exaggeration. There are many struggles of being a biology major, but there are 11 specific ones that we all know way too well.
1. You're a biology major because you love biology, yet you have to take painful courses. These often include physics, calculus, and the dreaded organic chemistry.
2. Every time someone asks what your major is, they act as if you just told them that you eat nails in your cereal for breakfast.
Seriously, though -- why do people hate biology?
3. When people think evolution literally means humans came from monkeys.
Like, have you even taken a biology course or did you just sleep that day? Darwin was a man way before his time, and how dare you insult his life work?!
4. The torture of having chemistry labs when it's 100 degrees outside and you must wear pants and close-toed shoes... or else.
Half of the time you forget something, whether it's your goggles, gloves, shoes, lab coat or pants. Not to mention for us long-haired girls, we cannot forget our hair ties. There is overall too much involved in the lab to just recrystallize compounds that most of us can't even synthesize.
5. When you find a biology joke that literally makes you roll in the floor, you show it to a non-biology major and you get a plain look that instantly makes you feel like a complete nerd.
6. Every time you visit home, you have exciting new information to share, except no one else shares the same excitement.
"Did you know..." Yeah, no one cares... just talk to your cat about it.
7. When you're too deep in research and you start to diagnose yourself with all kinds of life-threatening diseases.
"Do I have that? Yep... well, I must be dying... yeah, I am definitely dying."
8. When you convince yourself you can learn an entire semester of organic chemistry in one night.
You overload on Red Bull and plenty of sugar, but it doesn't help. You will crash and organic chemistry will consume you.
9. Your heroes and heroines and role models are probably famous biologists.
Hey, science can be sexy too!
10. Studying is literally an all-day, multiple-day event.
There isn't any "studying the night before and expecting a good grade" mentality. Yeah... that doesn't happen.
11. None of your exams are ever multiple choice, ever.
Other majors get a word bank... if we asked for a word bank, we would be laughed at, for days. The idea of multiple choice isn't even an option, and it sucks.
