<p>I realllly want to be a doctor but whenever I get a B it is ALWAYS in a math or science. It kind of makes me want to rethink things :l</p>
<p>I have no idea what I want to do for a career, but I want to major in math…I wouldn’t consider myself bad at math (what little math I know), but I’m not terribly good at it either.</p>
<p>Am I better at it than I am at anything else? Yes.
Am I good at it? No.</p>
<p>I’ve been considering engineering strongly because my favorite teacher is really pushing it because he thinks I’d be good at it. I don’t have any other ideas for a major. It sounds interesting enough and I’m decent at chemistry and physics (decent - by no means am I good!!), and not all that great at math, which is the main reason for my hesitance. I can’t do Algebra to save my life and Calculus was a bit of a struggle to learn (I understand it completely now but it took a LOT of work to get to that point - other subjects come a lot more naturally. Like you, my B’s are ALWAYS in a math class (except one in Speech). It’s seriously making me hesitant!</p>
<p>I’d do astrophysics but I feel like physics isn’t as easy for me. But maybe I’ve never been taught to visualize - I’m trying that now and its going better. </p>
<p>Meh, clinician-scientist instead.</p>
<p>The thing is I’m way better in other subjects like English and any kind of social study or history class. Those are super easy for me but I don’t want a career in those subjects. Its going to be a real struggle for me in college on the pre-med track :l</p>
<p>^ I can sympathize. I always do really well in English and history without really trying… I also do well in math and science and I certainly do find them interesting, but my performance in humanities subjects always edges out a little. And like in AP Chem, I always understood the concepts really well but sometimes I’d make some mistakes on the quantitative parts. Maybe it’s how my brain’s wired… repetitively doing math practice problems or writing out the steps usually helps me. xP</p>
<p>I became a structural engineer even though I have a hard time visualizing stuff in 3D. When I realized what a handicap that was, it was too late to switch majors.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t necessarily say that I’m /bad/ at science, but I’m much better at the humanities despite the fact that I really want to become a neuroscientist (or a bioengineer that does neuroscience-related work.)</p>
<p>I want to be a computer engineer, but I struggle a bit in math :’(</p>
<p>to fritzitty: it’s great to be good at the humanities! being well-rounded can take you far, especially if you have great verbal skills, because hard-core science/math people tend to lack those, so you will definitely be in demand. I heard once that MIT grads work for Princeton grads (of the same major) because the Princeton grads had focused on the humanities, giving them special skills (which i do not know of yet, but i hope to find out)</p>