<p>For a major to be your best-fit major, do you need to enjoy and excel in all the topics in the major? For example, if Biology is your best major, then do all or most of the topics in this major, such as Evolution, Plants, Ecology, Genetics, Five-Kingdom System, etc. need to be your favourites that you also excel in?
I’m considering to major in Biology, but I neither like nor do well in all the different topics in it. I hate and do poorly on topics like Evolution and Five-Kingdom System, but the opposite is true for topics like Animal Structure and Function and Genetics. Do all the topics in an area need to appeal to you if the area were to be your best-fit major?
Please tell me.</p>
<p>I’m a Biology major and I loathe plants (we just finished them in my Intro. to Organismal classes) but I managed to do just fine on both the lecture test and the practical in lab. I also don’t like Ecology too well or memorizing the Five Kingdom System (all those stupid Animalia Phyla). I describe my interest in Biology as knowing how something works when it is working correctly and what happens when it desn’t work correctly/how to fix that something. </p>
<p>I hate Math (and the Chemistry that involves Math) but that hasn’t stopped me from pursuing a major in Biology and possibly continuing to Vet school (I plan on taking the classes required to get in just in case I do apply, including Physics and a bunch of Chemistry).</p>
<p>Basically if you like it enough all you have to do is work hard at it. Take advantage of tutoring and office hours if you are struggling in a class. That way you can get the stuff you dislike out of the way for the more enjoyable classes.</p>
<p>Now I don’t know about the specific programs you’re looking into (or about sciences in general as I’m a humanities major), but in any program with some flexibility, you could probably get around the areas of bio that you don’t like–except maybe in the intro course. I would imagine that as a bio major, you take the intro course, but after that, you can choose to take more classes in cell bio than evolution or the whatever. Some programs will be more structured in that they’ll give you a list of courses that you take, and others will be more “pick two of the following four options” kind of things.</p>
<p>You aren’t going to be good in all facets of your major, but I would say it’s not the smartest idea to tackle a major based mostly on interest. This is college. You’re spending money. You’re using your time. You should know your skills by the time you pick your major.</p>
<p>I’m not going to say being bad at math and science makes you not the right person for engineering, b/c there are cases where that may not matter, but I would definately question your motives to major in engineering if you don’t like math and science. You need to like what you are doing if you are going to make a career out of it.</p>
<p>I doubt that anyone enjoys and is great at every aspect of their major.</p>
<p>I’m an engineering major. I’m good at math and learn it quickly, but I pretty much hate it. I don’t think I could possibly care less about it, really. I also hate chemistry with a passion.</p>
<p>I really love to design and build things, though. We just finished our first design project in my engineering class (a centrifugal pump), and I loooooooved everything about that. Even the math I had to do for that was ok. </p>
<p>On the other hand, I love music and play clarinet pretty well (I also really enjoyed teaching clarinet lessons). At one point I considered majoring in music performance, but I don’t think that I could ever make a career out of it…it just seems like it would ruin it for me. </p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t know if I’ll stay in engineering because I’m not sure I care enough about it to put that much work and stress into it (especially since I’d want to get my MBA…and that just seems pointless if I could do half the work in another major for essentially the same job)…but all majors lead to jobs and all jobs suck, so it’s really just about which major you think will get you a job that you’ll enjoy enough to get you through the sucky parts of it.</p>
<p>“…but all majors lead to jobs and all jobs suck, so it’s really just about which major you think will get you a job that you’ll enjoy enough to get you through the sucky parts of it.”</p>
<p>You don’t need to love every topic in your major. I was chemistry major (graduated) and the subtopics were ochem, inorganic, and pchem (some schools also require biochem)… I lothe pchem, and ochem is just a bunch of memorization which I’m not fond of. If you plan to go to grad school later, you’ll be able to specialize in a particular area of your field & avoid the subjects you don’t like.</p>