Hello, my name is Jafit. I’m a freshman at Penn State, and I’m in the division of undergraduate studies. I just came from Taiwan so still trying to adjust myself into the whole new environment.
During my NSO, I was searching for a class that can fulfill my general education requirement, but I’m having trouble to decide a specific subject to work on. The adviser told me maybe I can try SC200 because this is a course that explore different topics related to science. Since I’m not really down to science and don’t know which field really interest me, it sounds perfect to me to know more about some scientific facts in our daily life.
The main reason I didn’t choose a science major is because I didn’t really do well on chemistry and physics when I was in high school. I actually did participate in science fair and I did a good job on doing some research about phase change materials. (Here’s a quick link of you like to know more about phase change materials.) I also enjoy the process of working on a project and trying to find out the answers or solutions. However, when it comes to all the paper works with formula and theorems, I often can’t understand how they work. Therefore I can’t really do well on tests and that is really frustrating. That’s why when the adviser asked me about which subject I don’t want to study, I answered chemistry immediately even without thinking.
Without chemistry, I think I still like science a lot, especially biology. I’m really interested in Alzheimer’s disease. To know more about attempts that scientists made to cure the disease and why is it still not curable.
Hi Jafit!
Welcome to Pennsylvania. I hope you have a great year here and I hope you love it like the rest of us do. I am just like you and never really enjoyed any of my science classes in school, but thankfully Penn State has so much to offer students here and you will be able to find a major that is perfect for you.
Since you like bio, I suggest you check out the Biology of Aging as a future science class. A friend of mine took it and thought it was super easy and it also sounds kind of cool.
I also wanted to say that I am very interested in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, too. I believe that it is possible the worst disease one could have and I am very interested in understanding how it works and why we have not been able to solve it yet.
Here is a link to a great movie called The Notebook. In the movie, the main character gets Alzheimers and the story relates to her illness. It’s also a super cute movie.
Hi Jafit!
Welcome to Pennsylvania. I hope you have a great year here and I hope you love it like the rest of us do. I am just like you and never really enjoyed any of my science classes in school, but thankfully Penn State has so much to offer students here and you will be able to find a major that is perfect for you.
Since you like bio, I suggest you check out the Biology of Aging as a future science class. A friend of mine took it and thought it was super easy and it also sounds kind of cool.
I also wanted to say that I am very interested in the study of Alzheimer’s disease, too. I believe that it is possible the worst disease one could have and I am very interested in understanding how it works and why we have not been able to solve it yet.
Here is a link to a great movie called The Notebook. (Having issues making a live link in the comments section, but here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC6biTjEyZw. In the movie, the main character gets Alzheimers and the story relates to her illness. It’s also a super cute movie.