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If you're paying to go to a fully equipped university, take all the laboratory based courses in natural sciences that you can. That can be by selecting an appro
by philipkglass 3y ago
If you're paying to go to a fully equipped university, take all the laboratory based courses in natural sciences that you can. That can be by selecting an appropriate minor or by loading up on those courses as electives. (Assuming you aren't already majoring in the natural sciences.)
There is a wealth of material available online for self-study in many disciplines. But you aren't going to be able to download a mass spectrometer after you graduate, so take advantage of those well equipped labs while you can.
- tilne 3y agoUnless you wanted to pursue a career related to the physical sciences, what is the benefit of taking labs? I ask this as someone that took a large number of physics and especially chemistry labs before ultimately switching to computer science. The labs to me were more about how to game the grading process than they were about actual learning. And certainly I wouldn’t say I took anything from those mentally that I didn’t get out of, say, theoretical organic chemistry synthesis problems.