Justin L. Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H. Zureick, and Daniel K. Lee
2016 by Justin L. Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H. Zureick, and Daniel K. Lee
All rights reserved. Published 2016.
Names: Bauer, Justin L. (Justin Lawrence), 1990author. | Kim, Yoo Jung, 1991author. | Zureick, Andrew H. (Andrew Harrison), 1991author. | Lee, Daniel K. (Daniel Kwangsuk), 1991author.
Title: What every science student should know / Justin L. Bauer, Yoo Jung Kim, Andrew H. Zureick, and Daniel K. Lee.
Other titles: Chicago guides to academic life.
Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016. | Series: Chicago guides to academic life | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015041270| ISBN 9780226198743 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226198880 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780226198910 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: ScienceStudy and teaching (Graduate)United States. | Universities and collegesUnited StatesGraduate work. | Academic achievementUnited States.
Classification: LCC Q181.A2 B38 2016 | DDC 507.1/173dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041270
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To our parents, William Bauer and Nancy Spiegel, Hyea Ja Chae and Won Sik Kim, Samir and Brenda Zureick, and Daniel and Linda Lee, for their love and support
This book would not exist had it not been for the help of people who believed in us. First, we thank Andrea Somberg of Harvey Klinger Inc. for her guidance in helping us to formulate the initial book proposal. Next, we thank Christie Henry, Amy Krynak, Logan Ryan Smith, and Lauren Salas at the University of Chicago Press for guiding us through the publishing process and Mary Corrado for her editorial acumen.
We thank all of the students, faculty, professionals, and young college alumni who generously shared with us their time and insights about college science through interviews and reviews of our manuscript. Our particular thanks go out to Joshua Alman, Delian Asparouhov, Nancy Bakowski, Carli Balogh, Ameen Barghi, William D. Bauer, PhD, Mark Baum, Jacob Becraft, Sydney Behrmann, Alysia Birkholz, PhD, Scott Brookes, Kristopher S. Brown, Michael Cariaso, Hongyu Chen, Jeff Chen, Kenny Chen, Sara Choi, Cesar Cuenca, Irving Dai, Ellen Daily, Donna J. Dean, PhD, Amar Dhand, MD, DPhil, Christiane Donahue, PhD, Jaideep Dudani, Kar Epker, Riley Ennis, Roxanne Farkas, Vanessa Ferrel, Christopher Finch, Emily Flynn, Sydney Foote, Christopher Francis, MS, Mollie Sarah Henni Friedlander, Ryan Gabelman, Amanda Gartside, Angela Gauthier, Sophia Gauthier, MS, Marcelo Gleiser, PhD, David S. Glueck, PhD, Charles Goldberg, MD, Samuel Greene, MS, Natasha M. Grotz, PhD, Julie Ann Haldeman, Michael Huarng, Colin Heffernan, Steven Jin, Carlee Joe-Wong, Stephan Johnson, Peter Kalugin, Julia E. Kao, Christopher S. Kelly, Roger Khouri Jr., Yoo Eun Kim, Clarke Knight, Aaron Koenig, F. Jon Kull, PhD, Nilay Kumar, Daniel Sotelo Leon, Jonathan Li, Grant L. Lin, George S. Liu, William Lotko, PhD, Jan A. Makkinje, Rachel Mann, Daniel Marcusa, Vicki V. May, PhD, Sara Koenig McLaughlin, PhD, Kelvin Mei, Roland Nadler, JD, Aran Nayebi, Nicole Nevarez, Paloma Marin Nevarez, Stephen Neville, Ben H. Nguyen, David Nykin, Matthew L. Pleatman, Mya Poe, PhD, Robert Porter, Gareth Roberg-Clark, Juan Pablo Ruiz, Parker Phinney, Rameshwar R. Rao, Raza Rasheed, JD, Stanford Schor, Anthony Scruse, Elisabeth Seyferth, David Shafer, Eric Shen, Maxwell Shinn, Alvin Siu, Jessica Smolin, PhD, Leslie J. Sonder, PhD, Nancy H. Spiegel, MS, Alison Stace-Naughton, Alyssa Stevenson, Mika M. Tabata, Michael Terjimanian, Kaya Thomas, Carl P. Thum, PhD, Jonathan D. Tijerina, MS, Duy C. Tran, Jeffrey Treiber, Jeffrey Tsao, Ryan Tsuchida, Christopher Walker, Sara Walker, Kathy S. Weaver, MA, Elise Wilkes, William Wingard, Lee A. Witters, MD, Xiaotian Wu, Jennifer Xia, So Young Yang, Joseph K. Yi, Lindsey Youngquist, Melanie Zhang, and Yingchao Zhong.
Lastly, we acknowledge our friends and faculty members from Dartmouth College for helping to instill within us our love for the sciences. Our gratitude also goes out to the other institutions and organizations that helped us to work on this book, such as the Dartmouth College Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, Dartmouth College Office of Undergraduate Research, Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, and the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program.
Welcome to the World of College Science
The one thing none of your college science courses will teach you is how to succeed in them. Studying science needs to come with an owners manual, and that manual is this book.
Study skills, choosing a major, research, and career planning are just a few of the topics covered in this concise guide. The scientific disciplinesmath, engineering, chemistry, computer science, etc.are both challenging and rewarding. Yet relatively few students make it through the intense and sometimes competitive world of college science. Because you dont know what you dont know, you need advice from people who have been through what you are about to experience. This bookpainstakingly distilled from years of research, interviews with successful scientists and science students, and our own experiences as recent science graduatesis the advice that we, your authors, wish we had heard when we came to college.