One more university question.

[lightningandsnow]

If you have awful coordination (like, clinically, not just a little below average), and not-so-great visual memory, both as a result of a learning disability, is it not advisable to take a lab-based science?

I want to get into something community health-related, possibly, after university, and I do like biology. I enjoy doing labs, but I generally have to have how to do things explained to me multiple times. As well, I usually let other people do the more tricky hands-on bits, such as measuring things accurately, or things which possibly would result in me dropping things.

Thoughts?

[Nikia]

1. I don't know if I'd major in lab science if I were you

In chemistry and some biology classes, you really do need to measure things accurately and in college courses, they are less likely to explain things multiple times. You usually work as partners in labs, but you can't count on having a lab partner who will do most of it.
On the otherhand, there was a guy a year ahead of me who was a chem majorwith awful coordination, breaking glassware and spilling multiple harmful substances both as a student and lab assistant (not sure why they chose him after his earlier lab accidents). He was accepted into a phd program and got an interniship at a large pharmecutical company. In the claass notes a few years later, he was working for the pharm company but now pursuing an MBA. I wondreed if the phd program didn't work out because of his coordination issues. There was a woman in the same class who was blind (legally not complete darkness). I wasn't in any of her lab science classes so I don't know what accomodations she had if any. She was in one of my non science classes though and saw her copy of an exam which was printed in an enormous font, which makes me think that measuring chemicals would be hard for her. She did have a personal magnifier, but I think that it would be difficult to use while measuring.
You could always try, having a back up plan. The above people were successful majors, at the undergrad level anyway. If you decide not to go the health science route at all though and have to take lab science as a gen ed, you might prefer to take physics, geology, or an ecology based biology course.

[lightningandsnow]

2. Yeah, I'm definitely not majoring in science.

However, I figure I might want to take a science course or two in university, just to have that knowledge.

A course or two shouldn't be so bad, though, right? (I might want to avoid it altogether, though.)

[Nikia]

3. It depends on where you are going

Many colleges have science classes for the non major and some might even be lecture classes.