Struggling With Science Courses - Need Advice

MissSilvestris
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:14:16 +0000

If you’re going into science just because ‘you want to have a job’ you’re in for 4+ years of misery followed by a job you suck at. There is a difference between scraping by as a science major and actually putting in the work to be competent. From your description, apart from standardized tests (which prove next to nothing, sorry to say it), you’re not a math and science person, or at least you don’t seem to like it enough to put in the grueling work needed to succeed.

A science major is a calling, not a career move. You shouldn’t just look at the ‘*****in’ salaries of engineers after they graduate and decide that engineering/physics/chemistry is for you. True, science and math majors are very employable but there’s a reason even smart engineering and science majors are always stuck in the library on Friday nights. It’s work! And not ‘I have a 20 page paper to write’. It’s going over 200 problems before the test and finding out you misunderstood a critical theory. It’s getting to the end of a 5-page problem and discovering you misplaced a variable on page 2. It’s staying awake at 2AM on a Tuesday morning because you have a final in a week.

If you really do love science and these things sound reasonable in exchange for the value you get out of your education, by all means I’ll help you. Otherwise I’d change to a business major or something else in the Lib Arts. Science and math majors aren’t the only ones who are above poverty-level after college, you know.