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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish I had picked a more useful major than Communications. [/quote]

May I pushback on this? I also chose an easy major — because it was easy and a match to my academic preparation at that point. Do you really think you’d be able to hypothetically handle something much harder, ie something with a lot of math and science? Unless you’re able to go all the way back to 9th grade, it’s unlikely. I would have loved to have been able to major in engineering, computer science or especially pre-med, but unless I have a time machine to re-do high school, that wasn’t in the cards at age 18, even with the benefit old age wisdom.[/quote]

It depends on why one chose that "easy" major: because you didn't have the preparation or because you wanted more time to party? Those are two very different reasons. [/quote]

I think both probably go hand and hand. Unlikely either kid was academically prepared to handle something hard. And genetics play a part as well.[/quote]

NP. Some of us choose easy majors because we don't like to fail. I was an exceptionally hard worker but it would have been hard to pick up a class that I might have made a B in. At the time I wished I could try out other courses without the pressure of grades. I made the top score in my microeconomics course and wish I had taken more economics courses. [/quote]

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