University of Florida Student Proposed Schedule for Career Goal

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A University of Florida student studying chemical engineering and biochemistry, with a minor in mathematics and potential interests in material sciences and sales engineering, is seeking feedback on their mock schedule. Their career goal is to become the head researcher and CEO of a biotech company, and they plan to pursue graduate studies. The discussion includes comments on specific courses, such as CGS2425, which is noted for its heavy workload, and MAA4402, praised for its instructor. There are also mentions of the biophysics class, which is infrequently offered and has received mixed reviews. Participants emphasize the importance of not overloading on courses and the variability in teaching quality across different classes. Overall, the conversation highlights the challenges of course selection and the need for careful planning in academic schedules.
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I am currently a student at the University of Florida studying chemical engineering and biochemistry with a minor in mathematics and possibly material sciences and sales engineering.

I made a mock up of my schedule my career goal is to be the head researcher and CEO of a biotech company and I am curious what anyone thinks of my schedule. I am obviously going to pursure graduate work. If you want a course description let me know.

Thanks in advance.
 

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omagdon7 said:
I am currently a student at the University of Florida studying chemical engineering and biochemistry with a minor in mathematics and possibly material sciences and sales engineering.

I made a mock up of my schedule my career goal is to be the head researcher and CEO of a biotech company and I am curious what anyone thinks of my schedule. I am obviously going to pursure graduate work. If you want a course description let me know.

Thanks in advance.


wow, that's fancy. lol. mine is just this rinky-dink word doc. :redface:

cgs2425, I've heard, is a LOAD of work towards the end. i signed up for that during summer a (six weeks! ), and dropped it the next day--the last two projects were something like 1000 lines of code.


maa4402 is an awesome class. :cool: especially if you get dr. boyland.


the biophys class isn't offered all the time, so be on the lookout for that class. (and i heard that it wasn't that great when dr. meisel was teaching it.)



cool that you're entering school with your first two semesters of calc and chem out of the way, though! :cool:


and... i don't know what's going on in those last few semesters, but six courses seems like quite a lot.
 
omagdon7 said:
If you want a course description let me know.

Thanks in advance.


i believe that nusc is saying, "yes, we would like them. we would like them all."
 
Actually no, it was in response to Matt grime's thread regarding academic advice. He insists that students should not gain such advice from this forum because no one on these forums is entitled to ensure course selection due do to the fact that all university courses are taught differently. Although that should be obvious to everyone, in contrast, mathwonk says otherwise since he had bad experience with advisors in the past.

So it's really upto omagdon7, but don't overload yourself.
 
Nusc said:
Actually no, it was in response to Matt grime's thread regarding academic advice. He insists that students should not gain such advice from this forum because no one on these forums is entitled to ensure course selection due do to the fact that all university courses are taught differently. Although that should be obvious to everyone, in contrast, mathwonk says otherwise since he had bad experience with advisors in the past.

So it's really upto omagdon7, but don't overload yourself.

oh. well, i got your intent wrong then! :redface:


i happen to go to that school and gave input on classes i know about.
 
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