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My fellow devs, appreciate what you have right now, even if it doesn't seem that great. I've recently switched majors from Bioinformatics to Medicine and I wouldn't say I regret it, but I do certainly doubt this decision sometimes. While studying Bioinformatics, I was always really interested in the biological part, often wanting to learn more about medical topics and such, thinking if I did switch, I could always keep programming as a hobby. Now I did switch and I miss being in a professional CS field so much. Medicine is great, but the people who study are mentally completely different from people that code. I still code small projects on the side, but don't really have anyone to talk to about them and I'm even starting to regret not paying more attention in linear algebra. I miss linear algebra, think about how ridiculous that is haha. Anyways, if you are looking forward to a major change in your life, it might not be all that you think it will be. So look at your current situation, it might be what you wanted all along.
Thanks for listening.
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Also it is incredible, how technologically incompetent most medical students are lol

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    6y
    @zlice Get into it, if you have the chance to! It's an amazing field, albeit very young, which is why a lot of people don't know much about it! And yeah often you just crave a change, even if it isn't for the better...
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    6y
    @zlice Dude, the disconnect between the natural science field and the CS field is unreal. I think this is due to most people starting of in one field and then discovering the other, not studying both from the beginning. Also a lot of the tools like most of NCBI are very clunky and hard to use, especially for new people migrating from other fields. Also what is up with FASTA? I hate parsing the header with ">" and pipes, just why? I worked at a web agency doing both front- and backend things and it amazed me how old-school biotechnology felt in comparison, albeit such a young field.
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    6y
    @zlice I've had some assignments that wanted us to use R, once you get used to it, it can actually be kinda useful haha; but nothing you can't do in python
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    351d
    The field of development is constantly changing, and challenges are part of the journey. It's great that you're encouraging your fellow devs to value the present moment. My major is Biotechnologies, and I found a few interesting ideas at https://edubirdie.com/examples/... which is a helpful resource for students. I think that you may got assistance there. Learning from difficulties and celebrating small victories contribute to professional and personal growth.
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