Don't know what to study (CS, EE, Acct)

fredflintstone
Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:36:19 +0000

I’m a freshman. Now that I’ve settled into college life, I need to figure out what my major will be.

Everyone says to go for my passion, but I don’t really have an academic passion. I’d rather watch sports than do homework. I applied for the engineering school b/c I thought I liked math and science in high school, but now I wonder whether I really just hated those subjects less than humanities.

Math is too abstract, I don’t care what the tangent plane to a function looks like. If I ever need to know, Mathematica can compute that much better than I can. Chemistry is slightly interesting but is very hard for me conceptually, and I have never liked science labs at all. In high school I was good at these subjects but here my classmates are much smarter and I don’t feel I have much competitive advantage.

I’m in some business classes too. I seem to be very good at accounting, it comes naturally to me. But it doesn’t seem very interesting, and I’m not sure if I’d get into the business school as a transfer.

The one high school class I really liked was AP Statistics. I wrote a lot of calculator programs to do simulations. This makes me wonder if I’d like CS, but that subject might be too theoretical.

(Also, I could graduate in three years with CS or accounting, engineering would take every inch of four)

My adviser hasn’t been very helpful, so I wondered if you guys could ask me some questions that might help me figure things out.

Thank you!