Doing well in Calculus means I should be a math major? Content of Upper level math courses

Calc 2 is supposedly the worst calc class at my college, and all my friends hated it. On the other hand, I took it and didnt struggle as much as everyone else and ended up with an A- without even trying that hard. Sometimes I struggle in math (I honestly never understood series after the entire semester) and sometimes I hate it it but in general I was always good at math in high school.

Looking at the big picture tho, I like the step-by-step process of getting to the right answer in all the lower level / high school math courses that I’ve taken but at the same time I think math is very boring. Im more into learning about humanities/social sciences. Should I be a math major? What are upper level math courses like? Are they similar to calculus?

Junior and senior level math courses will mostly emphasize theorem proving. You may have gotten a lower level taste of theorem proving in high school geometry.

Note that logical thinking as used in math may also be used in philosophy, a humanities subject. If you study the social sciences, a good understanding of statistics will be helpful (for economics, you may also find additional math to be helpful, particularly if you go on to PhD study).

Calculus 2 is nothing like the core foundational upper-divison math classes. There is no step-by-step process. You have to reason your way to proving something and there are multiple ways of proving something correct or incorrect. 3 of my upper-division math courses were spent proving calculus from the ground up.

Taking an intro to proofs course is probably your best bet in understanding if you can maybe handle a math major.

If you think math is very boring, find something else. It can get pretty dry if you don’t care enough about it. I’m not saying I was always super enthused about every math class I had to take, but I didn’t think any of them were that boring that I was falling asleep in them or anything like that.

“Calc 2 is supposedly the worst calc class at my college”

But presumably NOT the hardest math class by far, unless your college is very seriously lacking in mathematics.

“I like the step-by-step process of getting to the right answer”

This is pretty much logical thinking, and can be very useful in a wide range of majors: Math, philosophy, law, engineering, …

“but at the same time I think math is very boring.”

I think that this pretty much answers your question. There are a LOT of majors where logical thinking is important. If you think math is boring, you should look through the others.

See if you like linear algebra. That’s typically the first proofy style math class you’ll take.