I've been out of college for awhile. I studied Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry at a very large university and graduated summa cum laude with all A's and one B. I'd AP tested out of Texas college/university 2 semesters of English, a semester of government, and a semester of economics in high school (would have done more AP testing, but that was all my high school offered at the time.) But I am an all-or-nothing perfectionist. Bipolar hadn't hit quite full for yet, but I had bad anorexia. I went to graduate school afterwards because I didn't know what else to do and got an M.S. in Cell & Molecular Biology, a first author journal publications and several others publications, 3 or 4 of them, my professor was generous in including all or most lab members on a journal articles, whether you contributed with experiments or in my case, re-wrote sections of the article poorly written by non-native English speakers. He spoke English quite well, but his first language was Greek. So I'd get put on as an author just for the re-writes.

By my M.S., the bipolar hit hard along with panic disorder; I was unintentionally involved in a shooting incident where the guy had bad aim, shattered the glass in my balcony door while I was asleep thankfully in the bedroom as the bullet hit a book int the bookcase across the living room, when he'd meant to shoot out the glass in the patio door in the apartment below me, and his girlfriend/ex was out of town, so the police zeroed in on my life, especially as I had psych med bottles out (not expecting visitors or to be involved in a police investigation). Police even thought I might have shot at my door myself for attention Then, I needed IP for 2, 2.5 weeks for psych issues involving extreme panic attacks (so bad I could not even drive).

But I found grad school much harder and realized I hated research in the lab as well. I'd planned to get my PhD, but my academic advisor thought the M.S. path best for me, and my professor agreed (though he was a 1st year associate professor and the science advisor had much seniority over him, he likely agreed with everything she advised.

What is your major?