Favourite type of science?

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Used to be astronomy. Now it's good old medicine. I seem to have an adptitude for memorizing names of diseases, parts of anatomy and diagnosis after hearing them once, and the last times I went to see a physician, I went to my college's library to research, diagnosed myself, found out a suting therapy, went to see the doctor, and he always agreed on both. Retrospectively, I should have gone to med school.

was hesitating between Physics, astronomy, psychology and biology...

I wished I could choose more than 1.

Chose physics in the end. It just explains a lot of things... but then so does math.

I studied astrophysics as an undergrad. Still love astronomy to this day.

Ah Ruveyn

You have me there - Yes I'll choose Astronomy as #1 actually - because it teaches us about Math, Physics and everything else in between: Life.

My favorite is geology. In college I took that, "Applied Botany", and psych. as a natural science.

Physics, because it encompasses all physical sciences on the most fundamental level.

Physics and Biology have always been my favorites in school and I still like them.

I choose botony (did I spell it right?). Does anyone know a good collected that offers it as a major?

My vote would go to linguistics, if it was an option. Also the poll could do with options for anthropology, archaeology and sociology.

The reason I like linguistics is that I find social sciences a lot more interesting than natural sciences, and linguistics is probably the most quantitative social science.

I picked chemistry, but I'm not really sure out of all of them which one is really my favorite. Some classes I haven't taken, so I can't say.. but I'd be interested in:

Chemistry, Botany, Psychology, I took Zoology which was interesting as well. I have never taken Botany or Psychology.

My least favorite: Physics.. I had to drop the class and will have to retake it later. Math is my favorite subject.. but I can't stand Physics.

Maths but I don't think that's an option and general Biology.

ATM I'm studying Maths(10 hours a week), Biology and Chemistry(both of which are 5 hours a week hence totalling 10 hours a week), but I'm not very keen on Chemistry simply because at the level I'm studying it at a comprehensive understanding isn't required to achieve maximum marks, hence lecturers don't feel the need to elaborate, hence I get very frustrated when contradictions start to pop up or flat out lies.

Which for the same reason is why I dropped Physics very early on. Next year I'll most likely drop Chemistry unless there's University offers that want me to continue it(most likely not since I plan on doing a Maths or Computer Science degree, neither of which have any real relevance to Chemistry).

edit: I had a very strong interest in specific aspects of zoology(primarily parasitology) when I was 14 and had many books that went into both undergrad and postgrad depth on the subject, but has hesitance to mention/vote for it since for one I see it as a branch off biology and two I have no formal education in it and probably never will due to the lack of job prospects, my preference for maths and the(imo misinformed) perception of being a soft science, softer than biology.

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