Should I major in pure math if I want to have an easy time in college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Math is not easy. Through sophomore year, it is straightforward: you solve the problems, you follow the rules and you are done.

Then you move on to real analysis, and it is easy and takes a lot of study. Then, you move on to classes with names that sound like elementary school math - measure, for example, and classes where you redo algebra right. That stuff is anything but easy. The text books are short, and the hours of work are long.

I have a friend who got her PhD in Math the same time I got mine in Rhetoric. My dissertation was 250 pages. Hers was 20. Mine would take you a few hours to read. Hers was probably unreadable to all but a tiny fraction of people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do something easier like nuclear engineering.

+1 I have also heard that the aerospace engineering major is quite forgiving in terms of workload and rigor.

Just do what I did. Double majored in Math and Aero Engineering.

[Anonymous]

no offense OP but if you have a B in ap calc you're going to find a math major very difficult

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do something easier like nuclear engineering.

+1 I have also heard that the aerospace engineering major is quite forgiving in terms of workload and rigor.

Just do what I did. Double majored in Math and Aero Engineering.

easy peasy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm 18 and currently a senior in high school. I just got accepted into one of my top-choice colleges. Now I hate to admit this, but I'm not a very studious person. I really want to major in something that doesn't require a lot of outside studying. I keep hearing that math, more specifically pure math, is by far one of the easiest and least-demanding majors. Does math sound like a good choice for me, given my terrible study habits?

Are you good at math?

I wouldn't say I'm terrific at high school math. I'm taking AP Calculus AB right now and I have a B.

If you can't pull off an A in that class, without some major change, a math major isn't for you.

[Anonymous]

Do you want or have friends in college? Get chicks? Don't be a math major. What kind of job can you get with a math major?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you want or have friends in college? Get chicks? Don't be a math major. What kind of job can you get with a math major?

Many lucrative positions, my dear. But if OP doesn't love math, it's all for naught, because he won't be able to handle it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do something easier like nuclear engineering.

The hardest part of physics is math. Engineering is easier than nuclear physics.

[Anonymous]

Just major in Communications instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDMKXFeBNVU

[Anonymous]

I entered college as an engineering major because I excelled in math (80/80 in math C French Baccalaureate) which is More advanced than AP Calc and Stat. I did not do well in applied math and engeneering classes do u changed to pure math and did well. So it all depends what kind of learner OP us

[Anonymous]

I majored in math in college. It is an incredibly difficult major. Doing well requires creativity and the fortitude to deal with coming across problems that you have no idea how to solve, even after many hours of study and research. There is also much that is stunningly beautiful, like Zermelo-Frankel set theory. If you enjoy this sort of study, the joy will help you get through much of the hard times, but if you don't, it will just be added misery.

Also, being a math major is usually lonely. I was just one of seven in my year (at a public university) majoring in math. I missed having a cohort to hang out with.

The term "pure math" makes me laugh. I know some people think it is sounds more impressive than applied math, but what is impressive is doing what you love and doing well at it.

Anyway, there really is no "pure" math, in the sense that even an abstract field of study like number theory has applications, e.g., for cryptography.

Applied math, like statistics, is generally considered easier than courses typically thought of as pure math, like topology and complex analysis. I would certainly not think of these courses as easy As.

[Anonymous]

^^Zermelo-Fraenkel

(auto-correct fail)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just major in Communications instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDMKXFeBNVU

or gender studies - easiest way to a high GPA at DC's university

[Anonymous]

I am a physicist. For me, the in-major classes were easy. Just the way my brain is wired. Math was pretty easy too. Hardest class I took? Art Appreciation. That was just me.

[Anonymous]

don't go to your top choice college. Go to one way under your level, maybe community college. and then major in something like business.