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[quote=Anonymous]Another math major here-  I thought it was pretty easy, but I was/am good at math.  By "easy", I mean that on a weekly basis, each math class required a couple of hard hours of work doing problems/projects, and did not require a lot of additional studying.  By comparison, I would regularly have 20+ hours of easy reading and writing per week for English/history classes, plus extra time to prepare for tests.

The best perk of being a math major is that I has able to get a job as a grader for the big calculus classes that paid really well for student (something like $100 per week but only took two hours to finish)

As for finding work, all of the math majors were hired by graduation.  I worked as an actuary for a while, but that was (ironically) unusual.  About a third were also education majors and went to teach.  Many of the rest became consultants doing operations research/systems engineering.  A couple that were strong in stats/signal processing made good money on Wall Street tracking stock prices.  [/quote]

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