<p>I’m starting back to college this year as a freshman, but I’ve yet to decide what I want to major in. Anyway, I’m wondering what kind of subjects to start studying now so I can get a head start on things. However, I don’t want to waste time studying stuff that might be useless to me later on when I pick my major. What kind of courses would be the least likely to be a waste of time to start studying now(other than the SAT stuff)?</p>
<p>General education requirements are a good place to start because you will have to take them eventually.</p>
<p>Two suggestions:</p>
<p>1) expansion on b@r!um’s. Look at your college’s core requirements and start with taking the ones that you might be interested in e.g. psych,soc, any science course etc.</p>
<p>2) if you are just starting out as a freshman, most degrees if not all require that you have some elective courses so if you did take a course that you felt would be a ‘waste of time’ it would not necessarily be so because it can be used to fulfill the elective requirement. From this I would suggest taking a non-intro course in any social science course e.g. psych, soc, econ etc. The reason for this is that intro courses skim the surface thus give a very superficial impression of what the field is like. Basically, you really get into the good stuff in the upperlevel courses that focus on one of the aspects of that field that was skimmed in intro.</p>