| Science careers can be the key to great life-long | | | | trusted on your own with expensive equipment, have |
| happiness because many find it to be interesting, it can | | | | first hand knowledge working with someone far more |
| give you the sense of doing active good work for the | | | | experienced than you are, and can aptly prepare |
| planet, and, for some, can lead to fame and fortune. | | | | sensitive materials. It will also keep you updated on |
| This last part happens when great discoveries are | | | | material from classes a few years previously. |
| made or revolutionary articles published. Even if you do | | | | Graduate school is essential for anything more than |
| not strike it rich, you can still feel the immense reward | | | | being a high school science teacher. This is because it |
| of trying to improve upon current conditions and | | | | can often lead you into dangerous territory or |
| understanding. The good thing about science, too, is | | | | something so specific that it requires extra years of |
| that it is very broad and allows you to focus in very | | | | training. Often if you have internships, you can work |
| specifically on whichever small topic might interest you. | | | | menial jobs with the lab while they pay for your |
| It covers a lot of territory. | | | | graduate school. A masters degree can suffice for a |
| Making the career successful is not difficult provided | | | | lot of lines of work, depending on what you want to |
| you have a long-term plan. This should be something | | | | do, but doctorates are always preferred. |
| you have wanted to do since you were a kid. This is | | | | Even teaching at a college does not require a |
| the foundation for a great science career: constant | | | | doctorate, though it looks nice. The biggest part of |
| curiosity and an absorption of scientific materials from | | | | your adult career is not how much schooling you get |
| an early age. By learning to enjoy it, you will | | | | passed your masters degree, but rather how many |
| automatically choose the correct elective classes | | | | projects you can work on, how many other scientists |
| throughout grade school and high school, preparing | | | | you can get to know, and how many articles you can |
| yourself for college. The one thing some people | | | | get published. Often these come as part of graduate |
| neglect is to take enough math classes. The two are | | | | schools, but not necessarily one hundred percent of |
| very closely wound and most college require calculus | | | | the time. |
| and statistics for all science majors. | | | | The article stage is what will propel you to fame in the |
| After having seen as much of the scientific community | | | | science world. This is why it is also vital to understand |
| as you can and getting a broad grasp of most | | | | your language well and know how to write properly. It |
| narrower topics, it is time to decide what you really | | | | is about more than grammar, though that is always the |
| want to do with this lifestyle. This thought should be | | | | first stepping stone. You need to be able to switch up |
| developing all through high school and be absolutely | | | | your style and follow directions carefully if you write |
| solid by the time you finish your first year of college. | | | | for more than one publication. Different journals require |
| Even this is often very late to decide. In this way you | | | | different things. |
| can take as many appropriate classes as are available | | | | Getting published is hugely important. Often your work |
| and start formulating a thesis. | | | | will be sponsored and it makes you a serious |
| Class is only half the battle. The other part comes | | | | competitor in the world of science. Keep in mind that |
| from including science in your free time. If you can | | | | not all institutions will want to risk their funds on |
| become a teacher's assistant during the school | | | | someone who has never been published before. The |
| months and get internships during your vacations, you | | | | first paper may have to be funded out of your own |
| have accomplished almost all there is to do at this | | | | pocket. These can be thousands of dollars in value, but |
| stage in your life. These things are wonderful for your | | | | will pay for itself in the long run. |
| resume because employers will see you can be | | | | |