| Be well versed in genetics / molecular biology! - If I had the time to finish school, I'd double in biology / math or CS. Man will that be a killer combo when that kid is 30. It feels like biotech is where computing was in the 1930's... what's to come, and how it will change the world is both frightening and exciting. On the "soft" side (whatever that means): ethics, the history of ethics, from every point of view. Two lecture series I always recommend, and feel like everyone should watch with a gun to their head (as the instructor himself says): - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBdfcR-8hEY -- Harvard course on justice / ethics. - https://youtu.be/NNnIGh9g6fA -- Robert Saposky (and guests) on the biology of human behavior. Literary theory. Gaining a deeper understanding of how masters of symbolism, language, and creativity think and put together their work; the history of literature; etc. will open you up to new ways of thinking just like studying pure maths or programming would. Now to invent a time machine and give myself this advice! Boy I could've used it. |