<p>What are the hardest major(s), most useful major(s), and most enjoyable major(s)? These categories may overlap.</p>
<p>… depends on your innate skills, career plans, and preferences.</p>
<p>Hardest Major: Aeronautical Basketweaving
Most useful: Terrestrial Basketweaving
Most enjoyable: Underwater Basketweaving</p>
<p>Hardest Major: Chemical Engineering
Most Useful: Economics
Most Enjoyable: Journalism</p>
<p>There’s one that fits all three categories: BME :)</p>
<p>Hardest: Physics
Most useful: Electrical or computer engineering
Most enjoyable: Math</p>
<p>Hardest: Biomedical Engineering
Most useful: Electrical Engineering/Computer Science
Most enjoyable: French or Psychology</p>
<p>Hardest:any engineering
Useful: I think philosophy but if you are a pragmatist then pre-professional is obvious most useful (engineering, business etc.)
Enjoyable: completely subjective.</p>
<p>uvajor: I agree with you that philosophy is useful. This semester I took a phil course titled “Critical Thinking” for the first time and I’m amazed at how much better I perform in all my other courses, as well as in life in general. Philosophy really is the starting point of all human knowledge. Now I’m considering philosophy as a potential major, though I have already decided on one, which is biochemistry.</p>
<p>who is jor? just joking. my favorite class as an undergrad was an intro to moral/poly philosophy class. I really regret now not having at least considered alternative majors… even majoring in a foreign language would have been an experience.</p>
<p>My advice ysk1: don’t just pick a science major because its a science major</p>
<p>Hardest for me? Foreign languages. Most useful: finance/accounting (the language of the business world!) Most enjoyable? What I majored in - chemistry.</p>
<p>Hardest: Engineering
Useful: Mathematics
Enjoyable: Marine Biology</p>
<p>Hardest: The subject you hate
Useful: completely subjective
Enjoyable: The subject you enjoy</p>
<p>It completely depends on your personal combination of talents, ability, interests. More so, some people do not like when classes are too easy for them, they hate to be bored and make sure (for example) that they take them with their friends to have fun conversation during boring and easy lab. They actually might enjoy very hard classes if they feel that they are covering interesting material.</p>
<p>back in the day it was</p>
<p>hardest - Girls
most useful - fraternity
most enjoyable - beer</p>
<p>*This semester I took a phil course titled “Critical Thinking” for the first time and I’m amazed at how much better I perform in all my other courses, as well as in life in general. *</p>
<p>Very true…older son ended up doing a minor in Philosophy…he said that his Critical Thinking and Deductive Logic courses have helped him in many, many ways.</p>
<p>Hardest…any Engineering/Physics/Math</p>
<p>Useful…Philosophy</p>
<p>Most Enjoyable…Exercise major</p>
<p>Hardest major: Foreign languages
Most Useful: Physics
Most Enjoyable: Astronomy</p>
<p>What kind of job physics and philosophy UG majors can apply to? I understand that they do not qualify for teaching, they have to obtain Grad. School degree for that.</p>
<p>Physics majors get job as lab techs at research labs, engineering & architectural firms, as analysts for electricity and cell phone companies, as underwriters for insurance companies, as analysts for investment and mortgage companies, as bank loan & investment officers, doing risk analysis for all sorts of companies, as IT people for all sorts of companies and government agencies, as computer programmers, science managerial positions w/the federal gov, and small business owners.</p>
<p>They also teach middle and high school science and math. (National shortage of physics and math high school teachers.) And teach community college physics & math. </p>
<p>D1 has physics degreed (BA, BS level) friends who are doing/have done these jobs. One guys even created his own small business high tech start-up.</p>
<p>Now the philosophy degrees…not so sure about that.</p>