Science is all about critical thinking and observation!

>Science is all about critical thinking and observation!
>99% memorization
Worst meme I ever fell for.

Then don't go into Bio/Chem, pleb

>tfw pharmacy school
Just kill me

shoulda stuck with Physics

Yeah and be surrounded by autists for 4 years just to enter a saturated field.
STEM is a fucking meme

>saturated field
Physics is not even a field of industry.

At this point, it feels like it's only programmers demand where different jobs may require different babby skills beyond programming, which require different backgrounds.

You can't say this on Veeky Forums, but doing math or engineering isn't the best route for "critical thinking" either. If you read a book a month, you're critical thinking skills will be beyond that of any STEM drone. However, the sit-in's and colloquia in Philosophy and Literature are saturated with lefties distant from the real world, so that the critical thinking conclusions always just end up echoing the progressive trends.

tl;dr, if you want smarts, read books from authors of opposing views on social issues and learn programming. The rest will come by itself.

>School for people who want to be doctors but aren't smart enough to be MDs.
enjoy your unemployment bud

When people say field they mean the jobs related to the major/concentration.
Bio, Chem and physics majors are absolutely fucked because there simply aren't any jobs that you can get with a BS anymore.
So the only choice is to either do professional school (thats what I went for) or go get a masters and PhD.
By the time you're done with postdoc work you're at best an adjunct, making like 40k and just barely affording rent and paying off interest on your >100k loan.
If you do professional school like med, pharm or patent law you're looking at 4 years of stress trying to maximize your grades and study for 5+ hour long exams that test you on 6 subjects at once, and then wasting money flying around the country if you're lucky enough to get interviews.
And if you go that route you're going to be at least 150k in debt (not including compounding interest) so if you even have 50k of undergrad debt you most likely won't be getting federal loans. Meaning you're looking at private loans with 9%+ interest rates.
So if you do med school
4 years undergrad + 4 years med school + at least 3 years residency
And the interest on your loans compounds duing med school and residency (where you're making 30k a year for a 90 hour work week)
and this is assuming you're a perfect student who was able to get in your first try and without a gap year.
And I haven't even mentioned being around absolute autists during undergrad and grad. If you have even an inkling of normalcy you won't be able to stomach being around retards talking about how they want to be dermatologists or some other unrealistic specialty all day.
Also have fun dealing with shitty weeder classes like orgo 2 where you're spending your 20's memorizing hexagons and arrows.

I'm technically an applied biochemist that you have to call doctor by law.
Still better than bio and chem fags, and I found that if you actually know your shit (as in reading the fucking textbook rather than relying on flashcards and other retarded ways of studying) and intern during pharm school you'll easily make 100k+.
Even if medicine completely dies in the US places like Dubai will glady suck your cock to go work there.

I have a friend who is premeditated and nailing straight As by just memorizing shit one semester and forgetting it the next. When people ask him actually chem/bio related questions out of class he never knows the answers. Premed/med school is a fucking meme.