EPTwhen did you guys decide your major? - Page 7
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Xxio
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Igakusei
United States610 Posts
On October 07 2009 09:07 YPang wrote: my parents dictated my major. Is that fairly normal for families from your culture? If so, do most people in your shoes just go along with it even if it's something they hate? I have a really hard time understanding this, since I'm so fiercely independent. I feel very, very sorry for all the people who are pushed into being doctors by their parents because for the most part, doing medicine really sucks ass as a career if you're not into it. | ||
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
On October 07 2009 09:10 Rakanishu2 wrote: Keep in mind your major doesnt decide your job entirely. I was a geography major and now I'm a financial consultant. Study what you like! Definitely, I made the mistake of doing a major that I was doomed to fail at  Due to laziness and weak mathematics skill | ||
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YPang
United States4024 Posts
On October 07 2009 09:19 Neverborn wrote: Is that fairly normal for families from your culture? If so, do most people in your shoes just go along with it even if it's something they hate? I have a really hard time understanding this, since I'm so fiercely independent. I feel very, very sorry for all the people who are pushed into being doctors by their parents because for the most part, doing medicine really sucks ass as a career if you're not into it. I feel as if i'm a very independent individual as well, but my asian parent's culture is if i dont listen to them or pick a job that THEY think "is hard to find a career or unstable" they think im immature and disobedient. But im not pushed in to medical school, they chose pharmacy for me instead. I'm not really against it considering i'm a senior in HS and dont kno what its like yet. | ||
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gunsharp
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http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocotjt1.htm Choose one that you don't hate and then make sure it pays as much as you want. | ||
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thestool91
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Underwhelmed
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imweakless
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intrigue
Washington, D.C9935 Posts
On October 07 2009 09:19 Neverborn wrote: Is that fairly normal for families from your culture? If so, do most people in your shoes just go along with it even if it's something they hate? I have a really hard time understanding this, since I'm so fiercely independent. I feel very, very sorry for all the people who are pushed into being doctors by their parents because for the most part, doing medicine really sucks ass as a career if you're not into it. ohhsadhgsid god reading this gave me chills of horror. i've been a dropout for basically a year now because of a similar situation, and it's just the most absurd, fucked up thing to have to deal with. i'll probably finish a degree in something still related since i only have a few classes left, but being forced into a major i hated made college one of the worst times of my life. to the op, choose something you honestly like. this is not some inspirational oh my god follow your heart statement, it's more that it's the only reasonable thing to do if you have any self-respect. there are more than enough good posts explaining why in this thread, please trust them. | ||
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DrainX
Sweden3187 Posts
1. How interested are you in the subject? 2. How much would you enjoy working with the kind of job that that subject would lead you to? 3. How hard is it to get a job in that field after getting your degree? 4. How are the people studying/working in that field in general. Would you get along with them? 5. Income and other less important stuff. | ||
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iSTime
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On October 06 2009 06:39 illu wrote: Well, it's still the easiest. All you need to do is to think, that's it, and other people judge you solely on how well your logic is. There is no problem with labs going unexpectedly or people having biased opinions about it. Personally, I find math classes to be pretty easy, especially in comparison with similar level physics classes, at least in terms of the amount of work I have to put into them to get an A. But I think it's just plan not true that math is the easiest subject. I can take random 300 and 400 level psychology courses and get As, but if you took some random psych major who has taken linear algebra and 3 semesters of calculus and put them in a first semester analysis class, they would, more likely than not, struggle massively just trying to understand the definition of continuity. Similarly, algebra requires very little knowledge of math outside of arithmetic and some discrete math ideas, but if you take a random person who knows those things and isn't a math major, they're probably going to struggle in a first semester algebra course. Especially once you get to quotients. I guess if all you take is applied math courses you could get away with never having to come up with an original or creative idea and getting an A, but even that's a stretch. | ||
Kinky
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powerbygood
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FusionCutter
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duckett
United States589 Posts
On October 07 2009 09:19 Neverborn wrote: Is that fairly normal for families from your culture? If so, do most people in your shoes just go along with it even if it's something they hate? I have a really hard time understanding this, since I'm so fiercely independent. I feel very, very sorry for all the people who are pushed into being doctors by their parents because for the most part, doing medicine really sucks ass as a career if you're not into it. I don't understand the "fiercely independent" attitude. How did you decide what career you liked? Was it a scheme hatched in the deep recesses of your fourteen or eighteen or twenty year old mind, a passion you felt you had felt at one point or another and proceeded with because you valued the "independence" of your decision making, the glorious rooting of your life in the frame of your self? Did you ever stop to think that your self, your independent decisions, are probably just a misdirected and uncoordinated concoction of your parents' values, your violent and disagreeable (read: American) reactions to your parents' values, and the values of friends and neighbors and socialization that have been bestowed upon you largely by random chance? Are you pretentious enough to believe that at the kernel of your person you are anything but some arbitrary combination of a million commonplace and not at all valuable elements? Did you ever reconcile this germ of passion hatched from arbitrariness with the realities of the world; how much did they sync up and how much did you find you could trust to lead you to a shade of success, in whatever way you end up defining it? Don't you think that by rectifying your dreams across the ideas and hopes your parents have for you, the values they have come by through their own struggle through life and want you to value as well, you would be a more internally consistent and sensible person? Don't you think that by subordinating your bastard value system, the frankenstein product of an often fucked up society, to one valued by your elders, you might bring a little bit of happiness into the world through them? Well even if you don't think that way, a lot of Asian people do, and there's a lot of value in this culture. I think some Joseph Heller is called for. "My daughter is not obscene, but her speech is dirty now when she talks to her friends and growing dirty also when she talks to us. (I talk dirty too.) She is trying to establish some position with us or provoke some reaction, but my wife and I don't know what or why. She wants to become a part too, I guess, of what she sees is her environment, and she is, I fear, already merging with, dissolving into, her surroundings right before my eyes. She wants to be like other people her age. I cannot stop her; I cannot save her. Something happened to her, too, although I don't know what or when. She is not yet sixteen, and I think she is already lost. Her uniqueness is fading. As a child, she seemed to us to be so different from all other children. She does not seem so different anymore. Who is she?" | ||
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KOFgokuon
United States14911 Posts
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evanthebouncy!
United States12796 Posts
I was doing bio but I hated it now i'm CS/Math woot! Just explore a bit. You know you are in the right major if you are taking an upper division class and feel you can do better than anyone else in that class | ||
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goldrush
Canada709 Posts
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Igakusei
United States610 Posts
On October 08 2009 10:17 duckett wrote: I don't understand the "fiercely independent" attitude. How did you decide what career you liked? Was it a scheme hatched in the deep recesses of your fourteen or eighteen or twenty year old mind, a passion you felt you had felt at one point or another and proceeded with because you valued the "independence" of your decision making, the glorious rooting of your life in the frame of your self? Did you ever stop to think that your self, your independent decisions, are probably just a misdirected and uncoordinated concoction of your parents' values, your violent and disagreeable (read: American) reactions to your parents' values, and the values of friends and neighbors and socialization that have been bestowed upon you largely by random chance? Are you pretentious enough to believe that at the kernel of your person you are anything but some arbitrary combination of a million commonplace and not at all valuable elements? Did you ever reconcile this germ of passion hatched from arbitrariness with the realities of the world; how much did they sync up and how much did you find you could trust to lead you to a shade of success, in whatever way you end up defining it? Don't you think that by rectifying your dreams across the ideas and hopes your parents have for you, the values they have come by through their own struggle through life and want you to value as well, you would be a more internally consistent and sensible person? Don't you think that by subordinating your bastard value system, the frankenstein product of an often fucked up society, to one valued by your elders, you might bring a little bit of happiness into the world through them? Well even if you don't think that way, a lot of Asian people do, and there's a lot of value in this culture. I think some Joseph Heller is called for. "My daughter is not obscene, but her speech is dirty now when she talks to her friends and growing dirty also when she talks to us. (I talk dirty too.) She is trying to establish some position with us or provoke some reaction, but my wife and I don't know what or why. She wants to become a part too, I guess, of what she sees is her environment, and she is, I fear, already merging with, dissolving into, her surroundings right before my eyes. She wants to be like other people her age. I cannot stop her; I cannot save her. Something happened to her, too, although I don't know what or when. She is not yet sixteen, and I think she is already lost. Her uniqueness is fading. As a child, she seemed to us to be so different from all other children. She does not seem so different anymore. Who is she?" Are money and a prestigious career what matter most in life? Do you really think that just because someone doesn't want to follow his parent's career path that he isn't going to do something useful with his life? I got my values and morals from my parents, but I didn't necessarily get my interests from them. You seem to have this really one dimensional view that there's medicine/dentistry/business/insert other perfect career here/ and that every kid who "rebels" against that plan just wants to smoke pot and party until they get fat and stupid. I think that's actually relatively rare. Kids from educated backgrounds tend to get educations, whether their parents push them or not. | ||
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Judicator
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