Double Major with ChemE, worth it?

bubblesocks
Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:57:13 +0000

In my experience, a math major is only good for telling people to make them say, “Huh, you must be really smart,” even if you aren’t (most people you will meet outside of the context of school and work are terrible at math, so are easily impressed). It’s good paired with a comp sci degree, but you’d probably be better served taking more chemistry or upper level ChemE classes.

Don’t overwhelm yourself trying to cram too many majors and minors into your schedule. Engineering disciplines are intensive enough as it is, and ultimately it’s better to have the higher GPA because you had time to learn everything important well than an extra note on your transcript that says you took a lot of other classes in a subject future employers (or grad schools, if you decide to go that route) won’t really care about.