Neuroscience

Neuroscience is an extremely difficult but rewarding major. It was very annoying to have to wait 2 years to start my upper division courses, so a lot of students drop before their 3rd year or do not enjoy the content, but I was very grateful to find the content rewarding. You realize very quickly how fast the field is changing but also how fortunate you are to learn from some of the field's brightest. I really enjoyed the courses and found a lot of my passions from the majory even though the core courses were a bit poorly structured. However, you learn so much during the core courses that you end up finding a niche you want to further explore and the electives help you further pursue it.

great major, cant say much about upperdivs but general courses and prereqs were relatively fine and manageable. hardest part is finding a lab to do research with and managing your time with extracurriculars and keeping a good gpa.

Neuroscience is very similar to a cell biology degree. Almost everything in cell biology textbooks is a hallucination. You will learn the sequence of events involved in processes and how to describe them with plain language, but if you want to understand how things work you will need to work on your chemistry, math, and physics skills.

Neuroscience is an interesting yet challenging major. Many of the neuroscience classes here at Emory grade primarily on Exams, giving little to no homework. The information taught in these classes are particularly interesting, making each lecture feel rewarding. The only negative is the difficulty of understanding concepts taught.

Neuroscience is such an interesting major! The capstone aspect is forcing me to step out of my comfort zone to engage in more research experience rather than just clinical experience. I love it so much and plan to do so much with it

In full honestly, I think Neuroscience is just one of those things you genuinely got to enjoy/love if you want/plan to study it. It is very difficult and (in a sense) niche field of study that limits your options to essentially a post-graduate program.

The technical science and math courses have been challenging but also very rewarding once mastered and able to be applied.

Enjoyed my coursework more than previously which I found dry and boring

I wish I would’ve come in with a better foundation in neuroscience and better studying skills for the amount of work you get.

Lot of content to go over but once you understand the experiments it is fun

I want to have a career in neurosurgery so the major of neuroscience has allowed me to build a foundation in how the brain works.

Neuroscience has more credit hours and dives more into other sciences as opposed to psychology

I wish I had known how quantitative and qualitative this major was.

It’s heavy at times, but if you find a way to love learning it- collab it with like psychology, it’s great!

I find neuroscience to be the intersection between the future, and the bridge needed to escape biological stagnation; upon the unification of both technological progress, and biological breakthroughs, the world of atoms are capable of becoming uniformly conjoined to the world of bits in a manner which overcomes natures adverse limitations. Furthermore, I believe that neuroscience has shaped my view on the world in a positive manner, prior to my pursuit of this degree, I found myself to be slightly pessimistic, and dangerously critical; I've since realised that many of life's plaguing issues are rooted in the operators themselves, and not the operating system which humanity interacts with.