Hi everyone,

I will just skip the introduction because I am very nervous.

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The upcoming huge text well is nothing but a shout out from a student to the biotechnology family to help out.

I have been trying to understand what I want to do with my life after I couldn't get enough grades to apply for the field of psychiatry.

After enrolling in the only program that only seemed interesting to me three years ago "Agricultural Biotechnology" I have realized I am drifting away from my goal, which is to help people over come the needs for psychiatric medicine by understanding and fixing the underlying micro-cause.

Luckily in one of the main departments in my program is Microbiology, While in one of the courses I tackled the subject "Human Micro Biome" It fascinated me, I started to get in love with Microbiology and Genetics.

Them combined I thought of why not understand the relation of human microbiome and human psychological health?

Here is where I am stuck,

I am currently in my third year, it is true iam in faculty of agriculture but we don't study Agriculture, We study biochemistry, Microbiology, Genetics in details.

Now I am in Egypt so the English level of instructors and the content explanation/level isn't on pair to European or advanced countries elsewhere.

One of the Professors I know which is one of the few highly educated ones that is barely seen in due to the amount of scholarships he get told me "Learn to program, become Biotechnologist with an expertise in some bioinformatics"

Now I am aiming for scholarships and to actually make my self a valuable asset wherever I go,

1- What type of knowledge, topics and trends in Biotechnology I should have other than the basics of the 3 departments mentioned above in order to be a valuable Bsc student who will be needed in scholarships and not just a burden to the scholarship application list.

Note : Iam already on it, regarding reading about the Microbiology basics and topics that focuses on the topic I am interested in.

No clue where to go in genetics, other than that the DNA is a helicase.... with few enzymes that does few processes.

Biochemistry Was taught by instructors that successfully made me hate the whole department and only with stand it to pass the subjects.

if possible where to get it online for free or what resources available in general ?

2- What type of knowledge do I need from Bioinformatics in order to confidentially say I can do programming to assist my "Biology" work, If possible where to get it online for free or what resources available in general ?

Note I have bought to Udemy courses when they were on 90% discount one that teaches python from A to Z, I thought about it because why would I limit my self to learn python just for the sake of biology work, I am still a student maybe I can do more !

I also bought another course for Data science using python on udemy as well. Finally I bought an advanced Excel course.

Now I got excited there for a minute spending months of saving to convert EGP to USD and buy them, till I read a discussion on one of the forums stating how absolutely useless it is to do what I have did, excel and python as a general language are useless for a biologist to focus on, rather than statical basics and python as a tool for research only !

That got me down so bad, Especially that I have no instructors I am all as you see jungling between forums seeking random kind people's assistance, which diverse ! as a student this gets frustrating and instructors in Egypt aren't interested in raising a student rather than getting a pre built knowledgeable one.

3-What I am sure of right now is the following needs to be said/asked

1. I am 20
2. My time is running and in 2 years I will graduate.
3. I don't have any skills that would set me a part from the other 175 possible graduates from my university "alone" other than the GPA which is nothing to be proud of yet.
4. I can proudly speak English and I have learnt it on my own, through years of being mocked by gamers of how bad I am at it, now I work with it online and in call centers that hire from abroad. "Which is nothing to be proud of but it gets me money to pay my university"
5. I have No Idea where to start and what is required to be wanted in scholarships.
6. I am aiming for USA/UK/Canada/France for my scholarships.
7. I am preparing for my ielts and I am learning French on my own.
8. Should I refund the three courses I bought on Udemy ? they are by Jose portilla.
9. I am limited on time and money.

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-Just all I need is information and some little of guidance and I will do my very best to grind it all, but I am very very lost ! nothing is presentable about me yet.

I appreciate your time, please don't let my frustration offend you, advice me with the way that you think would put me on the right track