Temeraroius
Bluelighter
I am a 17 year old senior in HS and am looking at what I want to study at the places I've been accepted/have applied to. I have been accepted to Tulane (safety but I would be happy going there), and have yet to hear back from Penn Northwesten and Colgate. This past year my interests have really switched from economics to neuroscience. I'm interested in all aspects of neuroscience and biochem that are at all pharmacological. Shulgin is my idol, but my interests arent just about phenylthylamines and other trip inducing drugs (I'm not about "TRIPPING BALLS BRAHH"). My interests are pretty vast, for example i just read a book by a Harvard ethnobotanist who went on various trips to the amazon and compiled/interpreted information about various plants/alkaloids he learned about from studying as a shaman's apprentice. I am interested in cancer research, psychotherapy (admittedly, the Shulgin type, but SSRIs and MAOIs etc. are still interesting).
I would ideally like to end up working in neuroscience/pharmacology either working as a researching for a pharma or for a university etc. I have a few ideas about the path I would like to take to get there that I would like to get some advice on. I was wondering if this would make sense; undergrad major in neuroscience and/or biochem, get a master's in pharmacology (1 year program at Tulane), then a PhD in something else (hopefully by then I would know). Another interesting idea I had would be to major undergrad in marketing and neuroscience then get the pharma degree, thus making me an ideal person to hold a a job in an R&D department at a Merck, J&J, Perdue, or Teva type company.
I am not a huge drug user, though used to smoke weed daily but recently quit (law problems, but its all expunged). I've never done any psychedelics (though I would, given the right circumstances). I do not like taking drugs more than I like reading the literature pertaining to them. I know good deal of pharmacology and chemistry beyond "dude, take some tums with ur adderall!1!". I am serious about this and know my interest in drug use is due to my interest in pharmacology and not the other way around (though I would be lying if i said I've only taken oxy to achieve a better personal definition of what mu agonism is).
I do want to make money, I do want some power within a corporation, I do not want to be a lab assistant forever. I go to a very good privvate school and have about a 3.5 GPA.
Thanks if u actually read all that, I'm really looking for some guidance here because most of the time that people my age talk to adults about this type of stuff its either "Why the hell are you so interested in drugs?!" or "Go be a doctor".
P.S. think of me as the kid who gets yelled at when he smokes with his friends because he talks about his fascination with anandamide, retrograde signaling, glutamic acid, and enzyme function.
I would ideally like to end up working in neuroscience/pharmacology either working as a researching for a pharma or for a university etc. I have a few ideas about the path I would like to take to get there that I would like to get some advice on. I was wondering if this would make sense; undergrad major in neuroscience and/or biochem, get a master's in pharmacology (1 year program at Tulane), then a PhD in something else (hopefully by then I would know). Another interesting idea I had would be to major undergrad in marketing and neuroscience then get the pharma degree, thus making me an ideal person to hold a a job in an R&D department at a Merck, J&J, Perdue, or Teva type company.
I am not a huge drug user, though used to smoke weed daily but recently quit (law problems, but its all expunged). I've never done any psychedelics (though I would, given the right circumstances). I do not like taking drugs more than I like reading the literature pertaining to them. I know good deal of pharmacology and chemistry beyond "dude, take some tums with ur adderall!1!". I am serious about this and know my interest in drug use is due to my interest in pharmacology and not the other way around (though I would be lying if i said I've only taken oxy to achieve a better personal definition of what mu agonism is).
I do want to make money, I do want some power within a corporation, I do not want to be a lab assistant forever. I go to a very good privvate school and have about a 3.5 GPA.
Thanks if u actually read all that, I'm really looking for some guidance here because most of the time that people my age talk to adults about this type of stuff its either "Why the hell are you so interested in drugs?!" or "Go be a doctor".
P.S. think of me as the kid who gets yelled at when he smokes with his friends because he talks about his fascination with anandamide, retrograde signaling, glutamic acid, and enzyme function.
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