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[fishing-for-blood]

Do Aquatic Biology majors need a ton of math courses?

Let me preface this by saying that I can only speak from personal experience, and that my undergrad program had a unique format where instead of just having, say, a 'marine biology' major or 'Marine chemistry' major, you would be a dual major in both Biology as well as Marine Science, so I'm not sure how useful my personal experience is.

But my program only required me to have math credits up through calc II, and a basic stats course. If we aren't talking strict math, there was also chemistry I and II and physics I and II, and the associated lab courses. I was also required to take one semester of chemical oceanography and physical oceanography which again, applied math. So in total, 9 math-ish courses.

This will probably vary from University to University so depending on the school it's best to just look at program requirements from there; most schools will list what the required courses are in any major. And I'm sure this also depends on how many credits you go into uni with from AP courses in high school.

That being said, on average I was taking 5-6 courses each semester (again, not sure what a course load looks like for sing major/ minor people) for 4 years, so proportionally the math was not bad. I personally despised math but it was absolutely worth it and I just loaded my math heavy semesters with easier and more interesting electives to balance it out.

Beyond college, really the only important math I've needed is statistics. As long as you know what type of analyses to apply to your data, computers will do the actual math for you. So if you can fudge your way through the courses for the most part I would say all you need to retain is statistics and you're golden.

Again, this is all just in my personal experience! Definitely check out individual programs requirements for a better idea of what you'd be getting into.

#i was also an insane eprson who did a double minor as well as the double major so i am probably not the most reputable person to ask #i hope this helped anyway anon #im always open to answering any more questions if you have them! #msc230 #ask #my career pather looks like marine bio > marine immunology > immunology and autoimmune disease > genenetic disease and gene therapy #its been a ride and ive loved every step but gosh golly do i miss the marine stuff #what id give to go back to the shark immunology lab 😔

[fishing-for-blood]

In other other news, I was yearning for my fish science days recently so I set up a planted freshwater tank, small just 10 gallons due to apartment restrictions, but I put shrimp in it once it was thoroughly cycled and I've already spotted baby shrimps.

The tank:

The babies (ft. Some adult shrimps):

#that red and white large shrimp is the most social one he's constantly out and about #I have a gray one a jet black one a yellow one a black and blue one two black and white ones and a brown one as well #so far six baby shrimps have been spotted but they're absolutely tiny so I'm sure there's more #shrimp? you ask. don't you also have rats? #yes and I also raise caterpillars when the season comes. I'm incapable of keeping normal pets. I must have the creatures #msc230 #shrimp #aquascaping #neocaridina #one of them also molted today so that was really cool to see. late to work everyday because I always get mesmerized by the shimps