What can I do with a useless major?

CauchySchwarz
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 03:52:17 +0000

Yo, basically any undergraduate class is possible for virtually anybody that puts in the effort. Honestly, I’m one of the smarter math undergrads out there, so I could also be totally off base. So I expect that your friend is probably like me.

If he’s actually a genius and basically everything is easy for him/ he normally doesn’t put forth any effort in classes, then he was just lazy and it showed through when he couldn’t manage it.

I have quite a few friends who aren’t super intelligent and don’t have an easy time of stuff. They put in tremendous amounts of effort in every class and those are the people who succeed most in college.

About learning specifically, all I can recommend is actually learning what thing’s mean rather than memorizing notes and such. If you have a textbook, do all the problems and talk to the TA’s about the subject in office hours. Don’t talk to them about specific assignments, but rather about cool things in the subject that are applications of your data structures. Actually, I’d recommend connecting all your primary data structures via analogies.

The important point here is don’t give up just because someone else failed. I’ll reiterate my most important point. Learn and practice the material, rather than memorizing solutions and notes. Good luck.