u/Interesting-Pause541

So my friend is an awesome guy, but holy shit. We were chatting about the TBP TV show not long ago and he mentioned that he "didn't like the fact that characters from the book got split into multiple characters in the show" and that the show "focuses too much on romance." I was confused so I tried to explain that the characters were pretty 1:1 from the book to the show, the only difference being that we see characters from all three books at the same time. This made him even more confused than I was so I drew some parallels, mentioning Wade and Cheng Xin. And bro goes; "Who are those guys." And I'm like "ummm Cheng Xin becomes the Sword Holder and Wade is the guy who shoots her? You don't remember that?" and he's like "No, I don't." So I say "You read the trilogy right?" and he's like "Yeah" and I say "tell me the last thing that happened at the end of the trilogy?" and bro goes "Luo Ji stops Trisolaris from invading Earth by revealing the Dark Forest deterrence." I was completely floored. This whole time I thought I was catching up on a series that he is an expert in, only to find that he's been LARPING this entire time W/O EVEN KNOWING IT. So after telling him that there is in fact a third book and that it is extremely good he agrees to read it. But the cherry on top of this whole interaction is after he agrees to read it he says "I mean the ending of Dark Forest was perfect, what else could happen?" Oh buddy, you have no idea...

I just finished my second year in a united states undergraduate program at a D1 research university and I'm worried my future class plan isn't as strong as is necessary to get into the biotech (synthbio specifically) industry. My goal after graduation is to jump right into industry by working at a synthetic biology company but I'd be happy to masters degree if needed or if it interests me. My only issue is that I decided kinda late that this is the path I want to go down so my earlier classes aren't exactly tailored to the synthetic biology path.

My major is Computational and Applied Mathematics and Statistics with a focus in Mathematical Biology and my minor is Biochemistry. Basically everything before now was getting the pre-recs for these classes (e.g. organic chemistry and calc/linear) and knocking out diversity requirements although it is probably worth mentioning I have already taken microbiology. This is my future class plan:

Jr. yr Fall:

- Biochemistry

- Ordinary differential equations

- Molecular genetics

- Art class *diversity req.

- (Data structures)

Jr. yr Spring:

- Mathematical biology

- Data structures (or Algorithms if Data structure was already taken)

- Molecell biology

- Bioengineering and synthetic biology

- (Bioinformatics)

Summer: Neurobiology + (physics 2 for life sciences)

Sr. yr Fall:

- Non-linear dynamics

- Algorithms (or Machine Learning if Algorithms was already taken)

- Biostatistics

- Cellular biophysics and modeling

- (Bioinorganic chemistry)

Sr. yr. Spring

- Higher level diversity rec.

- Advanced biochemistry

- Protein structure and function

- Probability and statistics *science focus

Without the classes in parentheses each of these semesters are about 12 credits the minimum a full time student can take. So I have the room to technically fit them in but I am wondering if they are super necessary or if the classes in parenthesis can be exempt. I think my plan is already ambitious so I don't want to over-do it. I would ask my major advisor about this but she's a complete masochist so I already know she'd push me to take the most difficult path. Please lemme know if you think this is a good plan, bad plan, or have any other recommendations, thanks!