I am a student in chemistry, and for chemistry majors, we have to take a lot of basic science classes. For example, one semester I had to take a theory chemistry class with a lab. One maths class and one other science class, maybe biology, or physics. You can also add another general stream. Because aside from your chemistry requirements, you have to fulfill general education requirements, to graduate into your bachelor's degree. General education classes are, mostly social sciences, history, English, writing, that kind of stuff, because they want you to explore different fields, so that you can have a good idea of what you're gonna do. If you're a chemist, you need a good writing and communicate with other people, so it's good to have other classes. My special recommendation would be, usually general education classes are less intense than advance theory chemistry classes, so you have to combine them each semester. Take one general education class, with one of your science classes.

I always enjoyed sciences and understanding how chemicals and atoms work. When I started college, I was planning to do something either biology or chemistry related. In my first semester, I was a biology major, and I really liked biology too, but I was always interested in chemistry and liked to do maths. And chemistry has maths and it's more interesting, more cooler than biology, I would say. But in my major, I'm doing emphasis in biology, so I have to take many biology classes. So I enjoyed science ever since high school. I was always interested in understanding how the human body works, or how chemicals and atoms form, and their interactions. So when I first came to college, I was a biology major for one semester but then I switched to chemistry, because everything is chemistry around us, and I can use my maths in chemistry when I am doing this degree. So it was a good fit for me and I was always curious about learning different chemical reactions, and how atoms and matter and everything around us works. Also, in my chemistry degree program, you can do different emphasis in either biology or engineering. So I chose biology emphasis so that I can fulfill my curiosity for biology.

Before I came to the University of Utah, I went to a two-year college, Salt Lake community college. I finished most of my general education classes before I transfered to the University of Utah. In chemistry major, it's clearly heavy and you've to take advance science classes, so it was certainly harder. I wish I could start here early, at the university, so I could take general education classes and spread out to all the four years, so that I wouldn't have to take all five advance biology or chemistry classes in one semester. One advice for students who are interested in chemistry major, I would say each semester try combining one chemistry or biology class together, instead of taking all the easy classes in your first two years and then those second two years will be a lot of hard science classes.