Struggling With Science Courses - Need Advice

MissSilvestris
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:58:39 +0000

Plus, Math is fun!



Until you have taken a rigorous proofs class, you know NOTHING about true math. Just saying. I’d hold off on putting your premature enthusiasm into a subject you know little about. Try it, but to me you don’t seem like someone for whom it would come easily.

And not all majors are a calling. Business has a reputation as a ‘money major’ but English, languages, premed, and a whole host of other majors pay off rather handsomely in terms of effort vs salary. You misunderstand what I meant when I said ‘career move’ but your claim that every major is a calling is silly. The reason the sciences are a calling is because the amount of work you put in is very disproportional to what you get paid. Like the priesthood, if you will. In order for every major to be a calling is saying that every major is overworked and underpaid compared to the average major and that, my dear friend, is a statistical impossibility. You are going to have to put in much, much more effort and time for your math and science classes than your philosophy classes.

Like I said, go for it, but trust me on this, freshman; the difficulty of what you’ve seen isn’t even a tenth of what it’s like in upper levels. I’m hardly stupid and my first physics class was difficult, but not even close to what we’re doing now. And I have a 3.7+ GPA and do research, so it’s not like I’m talking out of my butt.