If you go to college, wanting to major Chemistry?

Question

What type of internships can you get? I heard from like makeup companies, and oil companies or somthing like that.

Answer 1

In general, you can often find internships in industry including anything from coatings (paints, polymers, etc...) to beer brewing. These intenrships, are generally very competetive. You can also obtain NSF funded research experiences (called REUs) at various universities throughout the nation.

Answer 2

Well take some advice do not go into an oil company or anything like that because it is a specific type of chemistry that you will learn. If you really want to, try to get into pharmaceutical company where you will learn a much broader spectrum of techniques and chemisty. It has much more of a variety of chemistry to learn rather than learning lets say oil chemistry.

Answer 3

If you go to a big university, one of your best opportunities will be doing research within one of the professor's labs there. You can get Fellowships for ANY kind of research, Before AND After you graduate. Academic labs work with many interesting institutions and companies that provide endless opportunities. I started working with NASA-JPL as an undergrad through the lab that I worked in.

Answer 4

You can only take a chemistry major in college one day at a time, one course at a time, one year at a time. Try out general chemistry. If you like it, go on.

I know a woman with a Ph.D. in physical chemisrtry from the University of California, Berkeley. I asked her what moved her to major in chemistry as an undergraduate. She replied, "Well, it was either that or theater design." When she was an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke College, she considered giving up, because she did research on an undergraduate project. She had to cut off the heads of rats to study what had happened to them. She felt she would throw up. But in her final year, she took a course in quantum mechanics. "And then I felt I found a home."

If chemistry is your destiny, then you will find a home.

I met another woman recently who teaches math at a charter school in Colorado. She started out at St. Olaf's College in Minnesota with a major in physics. But then she gravitated into a joint major of chemistry and math. Now she is qualified to teach math and science, and she is in demand everywhere.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Pharmaceuticals are great, but don't forget about the big chemical research companies- Dow, 3M, etc!

Answer 7

yes that is right... network and sell yourself.. if your gpa is up there ask the top companies what they offer in the way of grants... its really a lot of untapped money.

Answer 8

NO WAY. I failed Chemistry.