Well, the other day I was waxing philosophical and I thought to myself, Hmmm...based on the average life expectancy in the U.S. and my age now, I'm probably "1/2 way through my life"! Then, I got thinking and considering the fact that I don't drink or smoke, I may add an additional 5-7 years on to that (not quite 1/2 way over with that).
Anyway, I have aspirations at becoming a Univ. College Professor, which means I'll have to pursue a PhD at some point. I guess I'd better get going on that :) Or at least planning for when I'll start, what my disseratation topic will be and where I want to get my degree from.
I started "shopping around" for a PhD program and found two that might fit well for me, one at CU-Denver and the other at CU-Boulder.
The other day I got a flyer in the mail from Univ. of Colorado, Health Sciences promoting their latest "Computational BioScience" PhD program:
http://compbio.uchsc.edu/
That kind of interested me too. However, when I read the admission requirements of some advanced, graduate level, biology classes I thought twice about it. I'd have to take 3-9 credits of undergraduate and graduate biology just to get myself "up to speed" in the biological sciences. I don't think Biology 101 at BYU would count :-)
I have done general reading in news papers and online articles about science, medicine, and new drugs that come out all the time, and the subject is fascinating to me. There was a good special in PBS about "epigenetics" that really interested me too. (see: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3411/02.html)
I really like Math & Science and biology is a different twist on science and a different domain field of knowledge. I have had several co-workers and graduate classmates that went from a Master's in Biology to computer programming or getting a M.S. in Computer science. Perhaps Biologists are much smarter than computer programmers (probably true), but if you can go from one to other, perhaps I could go from CS to Biology?
Potato soup
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Chanda's Potato Soup
3 c chicken broth
1/2 c chopped celery
1/2 c chopped onion
5 c cubed potato
1t salt and pepper
bring to boil for 10 min
pour in c...
14 years ago
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i've heard there is a pretty big demand for biotech out there.
you might also want to consider something like RIT's "Medical Informatics". They only have a BS at RIT, but you might find a PhD in.
http://it.rit.edu/?q=node/49
Also, there are some IT PhD programs which allow you alot of freedom to choose areas of interest/specialization/concentrations. Again, I know RIT's PhD is structured thus, but there are surely others out there like that:
http://www.rit.edu/emcs/ptgrad/grad/1415.php3
Oh, and from our other conversations about your intrests, you might also want to consider an HCI program. I think you might enjoy that too. It was what I was interested in when I was considering PhD myself.
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