Science question!!!Pharmaceutical science help!!!?

[eddis]

hi
im from Malaysia
i went to an education fair today, and none of the college programmes appeals to me:(i only have little interest in science, but as you know, if you want to be i scientist, you can't have only lil interest!i've done various personality tests and i got artistic(24 marks) and investigative(21) for all tests. i'm the type of person that likes to sit down and make artwork slowly and delicately at my quiet home but i have done no investigating in my whole life. as for science, i've never been exposed to real science. our education system is all about memorizing the thick and heavy textbooks and taking tests all the time, that's kind of why i'm a bit scared of science. the subjects bio, chem, and physics are the thickest books i've ever ran into, except for harry potter books, they are slightly thicker...as for science laboratory experiments, most people in my class(about 50) don't care about science exps, they talk and talk and talk... and talk all the time and through their lives. so there was so much noise but the teacher couldn't care more bc it's really our culture and habit.we do the exps just to show some respect to the teacher unfortunately. for the report writing part, it's all fake. the teacher will provide us each a copy of the actual report, then we're to copy from it.
so that's my background. i don't know anything about pharmaceutical science. i just read it from wiki and i'm preetty sure there's A LOT of memorizing to do isn't it? here it is: The pharmaceutical sciences are a group of interdisciplinary areas of study involved with the design, action, delivery, disposition, and use of drugs. This field draws on many areas of the basic and applied sciences, such as chemistry (organic, inorganic, physical, biochemical and analytical), biology (anatomy and physiology, biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology), epidemiology, statistics, chemometrics, mathematics, physics, and chemical engineering, and applies their principles to the study of drugs. i'm thinking about this type of science because there will be more opportunities and i might like investigating but, i was never a disiplined nor dedicated person. i really need opinions now. and what else can i do?
more questions: 3) why did / didn't you choose to study science?
4) if you did, would you dedicate your life to science?
5)was it boring?scary?challenging?anything?
6) would/ did you expect to have a scientific job after you finish the courses?
7) is being a scientist a great responsibility?
8) can your love for science last forever?
9) can the job become boring at some point?
if you have more info, plz do tell

thanks

[ji]

Hello,

I am a scientist. I am not sure how it works in your country, but in the US there are many different levels in which you can seek employment in the sciences. However, most scientists hold PhD's with a variety of technicians, managers, and assistants to help do the work.

A university education will be heavily steeped in mathematics and the sciences and will consist of a bunch of memorization. At the post graduate level science becomes much more interesting.

In order to ask an intelligent question you must be able to learn. In other words, without memorization of facts and a thorough understanding of scientific principles you cannot become an effective scientist. This is mostly done at the university level.

Throughout your career, you will never stop learning. Once you have a solid foundation in science, you can begin asking questions and designing ways to test your questions that will hold up to intense scrutiny. At its very core, science is repetitive and monotonous. Experiments must be done, and redone, and done again. It is the only was to know that you are observing something real. When you are not doing science, you are researching what others have done so you can apply it to your research.

As with most occupations, the thought of doing something is often much more exciting than actually doing it. Science is logical and not very exciting from an adrenaline standpoint. What is exciting is looking at and describing something that no one has ever seen before. Additionally, when you are working at the cutting edge you are happy when something actually works, because 95% of the time experiments will fail. Sometimes because nature doesn't work that way and sometimes because of something you did.

Becoming a scientist takes years, more years than most medical doctor programs. You must be disciplined and hard-working. You must learn to live with the disappointment of failed experiments and a lifetime of learning, writing, and most of all reading.

That being said, I have an aptitude for the sciences. I cannot think of anything else I would rather do. I believe that people are drawn to what they are good at and a future in science was never in question. I have dedicated my life to science. I have never been bored by science, although I found psychology boring. If it weren't challenging, it wouldn't hold my interest, and I would find something else to do. Is being a scientist a great responsibility? Yes and no. I will not elaborate because each scientist has his/her personal responsibility to themselves, the discipline, and humanity. Yes, my love of science will last forever because it is never static - there are always more things to learn and do.

Hope this helps.