<p>"Graduate students in the natural sciences very frequently get full scholarships and teaching assistanceships or research assistanceships (i.e. “a job”) as they pursue their degree.</p>
<p>Since there is a lot of course overlap for different physical science majors, you probably don’t need to commit to a major right away. I would look at the course requirements for the different majors and schedule the courses strategically to preserve your options. "</p>
<p>thank you for the advice, and this imformation about assistanceships makes me feel much better as I have a family to provide for. That being said, Pootie, I’ll take GMTplus7 and your advice to heart; I dont want to ge into one thing and wish I did the other, so I would rather do a more board feild in earth science as an undergrad, and preserve my options for grad work (if I can make it this far).</p>
<p>Does the school which I obtain an undergrad degree from matter in this feild? (I hear it does for physics, for medical school applicants, and for a few other majors)</p>