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15 Struggles Of A Biology Major

The usual love hate relationship with biology

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15 Struggles Of A Biology Major

As biology majors, we know how rewarding and exciting this program is, but we also know how painful and difficult it is. All-nighters, frequent study groups, and tears are a commonality among us biology students. We share these struggles together and wouldn't get through our crazy course load without one another! This one goes out to all the insane biology majors out there who can relate to all the struggles we face!

1. Lab Reports

Nobody else knows the real struggle of having to write a 30-page lab report every week with colored coded graphs, labeled figures, and 20 references.

2. Never getting a 4.0

With a schedule jam packed with ridiculously difficult biology, chemistry, and math courses that are each 5 credits, good luck managing to pull off that 4.0 needed to get into graduate school.

3. Organic Chemistry

I don't think this one even needs an explanation, just know that we all understand the pain.

4. Wondering when you'll ever use this material again

Someone please let me know when I will ever have to calculate the differentiated tangent line to a point of a non-function graph in my future as a scientist. Oh wait, never!

5. When non-bio majors complain about their work load

Please continue to tell me about how challenging your psychology or child study classes are. I couldn't imagine how difficult it is having two weeks to write a 5-7 page paper and having to make 30 index cards to study for a test.

7. Getting excited about biology puns but nobody else caring

We take pride in finding new hysterical biology puns and when we share them with our friends we would appreciate a laugh.

8. Getting accepted to graduate school

You have a 4.2 GPA, cured Cancer, was President of the United States? You'll probably still get waitlisted for graduate school, it's inevitable.

9. Getting a little too excited for dissections

When your lab professor says "dissection," you can't help but feel all warm and giddy on the inside. I promise we aren't murder crazed people who enjoy killing things and cutting them open. I swear.

10. Plants

I think we can all agree that learning every minute detail about plants is about as much fun as getting hit by a train. After memorizing each chemical mechanistic step of photosynthesis really leaves you sleeping, eating, and breathing photosynthesis.

11. Worrying about getting cancer, poisoned, or set on fire during Chemistry Lab

While doing your weekly pre-labs, you realize that using Sulfuric acid, Digoxin, Ethylene glycol, and Hydrochloric acid probably isn't safe and could probably kill you. The main goal of each 5-hour lab: to not die.

12. Trying to understand your professor's accents or handwritings


Most of our professors are not American and really struggle with the English language. Like learning organic chemistry isn't hard enough, try learning it in a foreign language. You have a question? Don't bother asking it because it's not like your professor will understand what you're saying anyway.

13. Constantly saying you're going to drop out of school and make meth

The one thing I learned in chemistry is that I can make meth. So if all else fails in life, at least I have that to fall back on.

14. Saying goodbye to your social life

Your social life is now biology; studying biology, talking about biology, eating biology. The closest you're going to get to "Netflix and Chill" is watching crash course videos and cuddling with your physio textbook.

15. Fantasizing about switching your major and changing your life plans

You aren't a biology major if you don't think about switching your major and changing your life plans at least once a week. But at the end of the day, we couldn't imagine doing anything else with our lives or being any less stressed!


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