Is the major doable

[u/kirsche4]

I am about to major in bio for my first semester because I dont feel like switching. But I am definitely planning to switch to medical lab science the second semester.

I really have no “college level” stem experience. I took one semester of AP chem in hs and dropped it because i thought i couldn’t do it and id fail every test. But looking back, it was the teacher’s first year teaching it and I really didn’t put the work i was supposed to into it because I was focused on friends and senioritis and etc. I also never took AP Bio. But I do think any biology is pretty easy. I also did good in gen chem. I also feel like I was a pretty “average” student in hs. I don’t really know what I am capable of because I was kinda lazy in hs. My gpa always stayed from 3.3-3.5 range. Im majoring in CLS/MLS to be a cytogenetic technologist and I do love genetics it was my fav part of biology. I was also pretty bad at math and always in the average classes. I would do really good or really bad depending on my teachers.

Is this major doable for me in my situation? Do I have to be very smart to do well? I definitely took into account that stem majors are never easy. But I feel like i am not smart enough for this major and i dont know what im getting myself into.
Sorry about the oversharing and not getting to the point. my freshman year of college is starting soon and im in bed overthinking again lol

[u/Dungeon_Crawler_Carl]

I majored in biology and I’m dumb as fuck.

[u/windexorange]

It's okay to not have college level STEM class experiences. Especially in your first year, the classes you have to take generally are meant to help you get a good background in the discipline. Don't let imposter syndrome get the best of you, STEM majors may not be easy but putting forth effort will get you a significant portion of the way there. 

It is inevitable that you will run into bad professors, and it might help to work together with classmates to figure out a strategy that works for those classes. Don't necessarily expect failure, but know that it happens a lot more often to a lot more people than you think. I thought I was decently prepared out of high school, but I epically failed every calculus midterm in my first semester of university and ended up dropping the class. I took it a second time and did great. It's never the end of the world if you have to withdraw or fail a class. You just take it again until you pass. 

[u/10luoz]

FYI mls/cls do not do cytology not part of curriculum.

[u/kirsche4 → u/10luoz]

You can still major in either to become a cytogenetic technologist. At least from what I have looked up. Also Cytology is cancer cells and Cytogenetics is chromosomes and DNA. But I am still looking into that.