Dr. X., former researcher, currently a corporate engineering drone, part-time professional writer, long-time sceptic.
There is little doubt in my mind I'd pursue biology–the multicellular kind, possibly specialising in entomology (an idea that I actually considered before enrolling in my chem. eng. masters program). There are two main reasons for this:
- Thanks to DNA analysis, zoology (as well as botany and so forth) is finally distancing itself from its semi-artistic descriptive nature, something that still in 1990, when I had to choose the course of my studies, weighed on it like a pall for the more mathematically oriented among us.
- Within one generation, the rainforests will be reduced to a handful of square kilometres of tourist attractions; this means perhaps a 90% loss in terrestrial biodiversity--possibly much more. It is a last opportunity to study a world doomed by cheap hardwood and Brazilian beef; all other fields of science will still be there for the next generation. Assuming scientist won't be burnt at the stake by then, of course.
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Thus ends field pharmacology, in the name of toothpicks and chopsticks...
Posted by: Snarfevs | June 17, 2006 05:40 AM