<p>Hello everybody!</p>
<p>I have decided to attend Davis starting in Fall of 2012 as a member of the entering class of 2016. I know that I want to major in Pharmaceutical Chemistry, but am having some doubts about the other major I was considering getting (Mandarin). I know that Mandarin is a great language to know nowadays, and I plan on being fluent by the end of college and would be able to list that on my resume anyway. I was also considering majoring in Mandarin to prove that I was fluent in out, however I am ethnically Chinese, and so am leaning towards thinking people will not question whether or not I know it just judging based on how I look. Should I still major in Mandarin? If I’m fluent anyway, does it really make that much of a difference?</p>
<p>If not Mandarin, I am strongly considering German. Does a major in German have any value nowadays?</p>
<p>Would anybody suggest pursuing all three and triple majoring? Would that even be possible to do in four years? (I already plan on taking summer courses at my local community college)</p>
<p>Thank you very much in advance to anybody who replies!</p>
<p>Triple Major? I think not! What is it that you want to do in the end? Majoring in a language has much more to it than fluency. If fluency is all what you are looking for then there are lot cheaper options, Rosetta Stone may be :)</p>
<p>A major in Pharmaceutical Chemistry with a minor in Mandarin or German is very doable. As for Mandarin vs German, well that really depends on whom you talk to and what a final goals are.</p>
<p>Best Wishes!!</p>
<p>I’m going to level with you. It’s pretty early in your undergraduate career, you haven’t even registered for your first class yet. Enjoy the summer and when you show up for orientation, hear out what your group adviser has to say. So you like chemistry, Mandarin, and German, great. Sign up for CHE2A and maybe German your first quarter (seeing as how you’re Chinese and know a bit about the language already). Take those classes your first quarter, see how it goes and then make an informed decision then. If you want to find its usefulness in the real world, it’s not difficult. Go to the foreign languages department’s adviser and sign up for a 15 min chat and go from there. This should clear everything up quick, don’t worry too much yet</p>