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[DreamOn]

Will retire in 14 more working days!!!

Congratulations on your upcoming retirement! Enjoy!

[rosiefrosie]

I took them both along with chemstry, biology and anatomy & physiology. That was many years ago before OSA and cpap, when I had a brain.

rosie

[echo]

Out of curiosity, why these two topics? I took physics and human anatomy/physiology for example, but not microbio.

The uni education topic is interesting. In Europe they also have an after high-school education called (funny enough) "high school", they are basically technical colleges where one can learn more practical things, but they are well respected and it normal for NOT everyone to go to uni. They also have professional schools, also well respected, where one can learn for example gardening, electrician, etc. It is an interesting system, and allows one to earn a degree even if they don't go to uni (presumably allowing them to have some post hi-school credentials which employers look favorably on). The one thing I don't agree with in that system is that they force/urge this differentiation already at the age of 13 or so, which is way too young in my opinion. No one knows what they really excel at at that age, and some students can catch up in later years but be denied entrance to uni because they ended up only going to a professional school. Anyhoo, that's a bit off topic but thought it interesting for the American audience. Personally, if I have kids, I would like to return to the US to educate them. More freedom, yet possibly a lower standard of education? It is a tough call. Here most any school is as good as the next, because you are not forced to go to the school only in your district, which results in competition between schools and therefore better teaching at all of them. Maybe this is a simplification of the issue, but I do worry about the education standards in the US middle and high schools. However US schools have the additional benefit that sports and music are encouraged heavily -at the school- whereas in most of Europe you have to go elsewhere to participate in sports or music.

[Desperate_in_DM]

Took them both. I hate, hate, HATE physics, but it was required. Micro I loved! Also took chem (o-chem is the devil), and many bio classes-mostly in human genetics and genetic disorders. Life got in the way before I could get my Master's and actually DO something with my Biology degree.

[brain_cloud]

I double majored as an undergraduate in mathematics and philosophy, but then took the disastrous decision to do graduate school in the field that offerred the better support packages. So 5 years of graduate school in philosophy, specializing in Aristotle. Luckily, life sometimes gives you second chances, so in the real world I eventually ended up in the R&D department of a major semiconductor manufacturer, working on methods of detecting microscopic defects (now down to 15nm) on the newest DRAM and NAND Flash memory chips.

[calgurl@hrt]

I had to take biology twice in college because I didn't pass it the first time...