What happened to you science? You used to be cool.

What has happened to you indeed? The aura surrounding science seems to have faded with the more science courses I take. What I once thought was designing space ships and curing cancer has now turned into studying protozoa reproduction and string theory. It's not just that what we are studying now is not as cool as I imagined it would be when I was younger, it's also that the job opportunities with science are not that great either. The majority of science students probably want to get into some graduate program involving medicine in one way or another. However, due to the high competition, the majority of people probably end up as post doctoral fellows at some crappy college somewhere (actually the majority of these students probably get a job that has nothing to do with science and realize during their mid life crisis what a waste of time and money it was to get a science degree). Anyway, I'm not planning to do anything other than science so you'll probably see me at Feather River College (it's an actual college in California but I'm not sure if it does any scientific research) sometime in the future.