sorry to cut out your post deborah, i really enjoyed reading it and
related and resonated a lot with it. i also got a b.s. in biochem and
then immediately went into a phd program. when i was an undergrad in the
biochem program at penn state, that was what you did, you either were
going to med school or grad school, and the real ambitious ones were doing
the md/phd route. anyway, 2 years into my phd program both the faculty
here at u of michigan and myself realized this is not what i wanted to do.
i was very happy with my classes, but not very happy with research. so i
wrote up a lit review for a master's thesis and escaped :) but the
question arises, what do you do with a masters degree in science, usually
research... the reason i left the program was that i didn't like research
in the first place. luckily i found a great option for me here. i'm
presently in a program through the school of education in which in one
year i'll earn a m.a. in education and become certified in biology and
chemistry. my eventual goal is to teach at a community/jr. college level,
but i felt i needed the education classes a curriculum in science never
gave me. i'm really enjoying this program. i'm student teaching a 7th
grade general science class and they are a delight. their enthusiasm for
science is contagious and keeps me going through some of the tougher days.
here lies another option for people in this situation.
ann marie :)
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