<p>I’ve been reading through the posts, and I find them really helpful; I love physics, and I’m a straight A student, but I’ve never really felt challenged in a physics class, so I hope it’ll get harder (and more interesting) in college.</p>
<p>The reason I’m not pursuing a degree back home is because there’s this almost discriminatory slant against people who do liberal arts, including physics and math. I’ve seen family friends tell my parents, “Put your son in a good engineering school and spare yourself the shame; my daughter is doing English literature at Stanford.”</p>
<p>The primary argument that my parents have against me doing a major in government or econ like I originally planned to do is that, while I’m a top student for the humanities, I’m equally gifted in science, and according to them, that’s “not something everyone has; do engineering, anyone can teach history.”</p>
<p>Oh yeah, and I completely forgot to mention, I wanted to do finance. Hence the planned government/econ major.</p>