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Your still doing CS - not biology and that was my point. The article seemed to be saying if you are not sure about what to do choose CS. I think that is the wrong choice.

I love software and can't imagine doing anything else but if I had a CS and didn't like it I would need to go back to school and get another degree to do something else. That isn't true with say a math degree.

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I guess I fail to see how math prepares you better to do biology than CS does. Neither major contains the domain specific knowledge that a biology degree would impart, so it seems like neither would prepare you better than the other. I'd also imagine that both involve more math than biology, so they are both sufficient in that department.

And as I pointed out in my last paragraph, I'm not saying I agree with the article either... I was just pointing out that CS knowledge is useful outside of CS.

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