Confused about what I want to study

College Majors Engineering Majors
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<p>Hey everyone, I was recently accepted to Cornell University, and I will be attending next year. I applied as a prospective economics/math student, and am now leaning heavily towards applied math/CS/economics. Well the problem is now I'm even rethinking that. I feel like sacrificing an education in engineering at a highly rated engineering university may be a mistake, and I'm not sure if it's a good choice.</p>

<p>In school, I love math, science, and history, and as for my interests, I'm not a fan of tinkering with things, but I love problem-solving, I'm really enjoying my computer science, calculus, and physics courses this year (economics less than I expected), and I loved chemistry, but I wasn't a fan of biology (maybe because I was young, not sure). So if I went into engineering instead, I was thinking about either Computer Science, Electrical Engineering (I guess a less hands-on side to it), Operations Research, or Chemical Engineering. I'm really not sure between these, and as a career I'm at a total loss as to what I'd like to do, but I'm leaning heavily towards the finance field or technology.</p>

<p>Thanks for reading through the rant, and I'd love other opinions.</p>

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<p>You can find lots of useful information on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occuptational Outlook Handbook page (nature of work, qualifications, employment projections, pay, geography, etc.) That could be a useful place to start.</p>

<p>Looking at professors’ research interests and available coursework in various departments could help, too, if you’re interested in pursuing extracurricular academic experiences. If you’re good quantitatively and enjoy problem solving, you should do well in any of the majors you listed.</p>

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<p>Yeah I’m solid quantitatively and I do love problem solving (extracurriculars in high school include chess/math/debate etc.) and yeah I’ve been perusing MIT’s open courseware, but I haven’t looked at the BLS much nor professors’ research, so thanks a lot!!</p>