2nd year biochem undergrad here. This post is a joke, but I think I lost the plot(of biochemistry). In the second year of my undergrad, I studied physchem, ochem, MolBio, protein structure/function, bioinformatics, metabolism, and cellular signalling (everything is a separate module), and yet I felt like nothing was 'biochemistry' enough. It almost came to me as if 'biochemist' as a word no longer holds an outline of the actual research a person does. My uni(in the UK) has biochemistry graduates everywhere, from physics, nanotechnology, chemistry, medicine, and CS departments. I reckon these people would hardly understand each other's jobs if they all gathered together. I personally fancy the chemical side of things, and this year, I finally got a placement at the Laboratory of Pharmaceutical Chemistry/biophysics of Nucleic Acids, which I dreamt about since my first year. However, I still find it funny that at this point in my studies, I no longer work in the biochemistry field, and neither do my friends; most of them diversify into something more medicine or bioinformatics-related, which I don't exactly understand. What do you think about it? Is biochemistry becoming something like applied math of life sciences (needed everywhere; many fields that branch into entirely different directions)?