<p>I'm gonna be majoring in finance and accounting. I will study as much as I can, but I also want to experience college fully and have some fun. Will that be impossible if I have two majors? </p>
<p>People who are double majoring right now -- how much free time do you have?</p>
<p>This varies across colleges. The act of double majoring in itself is not time consuming in itself, but the classes you will have to take to fulfill the major. It just means that you will have to take more major-related classes rather than elective or classes for your own interests. Now, for something like finance and accounting, it may be less time consuming because they are interrelated than let’s say engineering and another major which would be highly unlikely due to the rigorous engineering curriculum. Other colleges have an honors thesis or capstone project for that major. Double majoring is certainly doable at most colleges, when you plan out you classes during your first year with an advisor, just make sure you spread out the work evenly across all four years. And as always, you can experiment and try things out for yourself to see if it is managable</p>
<p>I’m a third year double major in computer science and linguistics. Honestly, workload wise it’s getting to the point where it isn’t too bad. In previous years it was more intense because I had to focus on finishing up my CS prereqs, but now that those are done and I’m taking upper div major classes in both majors, my schedule balances out with the type and intensity of the work I’m doing.</p>
<p>As far as free time, it really varies depending on what’s going on in a given week. If I have a bunch of midterms and projects due around the same time, of course I’ll have reduced free time because I need to focus on those. This is typical to college students in general though, not just double majors. In a more typical week I usually have free time a few evenings each week, and most of the weekend. I’m one that tries to get as much work done during the week as possible, both so I have free time on the weekend and so I have that extra time cushion for getting stuff done if needed.</p>
<p>I’m a double major as well and would agree that the workload/free time really depends on the majors you are pursuing. In my case, I’m double majoring in the humanities; both majors take up an equal amount of time for me. I don’t perceive that I have more of a workload than any of my other classmates. The most noticeable difference when I compare my situation as a double major to that of people only majoring in one subject is that my class schedule is more planned, and that I have less room in my schedule to take elective classes, which can be kind of a bummer. </p>
<p>I did a double major in college, and it’s not so much the double major that determines how much free time you have but the amount of classes you have to take each semester. If you have to overload on your courses each semester in order to fit in the double major, then you’ll have less free time than if you take the normal amount of courses each semester. If you can fit in your double major with a normal workload each semester, then you’ll probably have the same amount of free time as you would have with only one major. </p>
<p>I’m a junior double-majoring I’m French and Writing and Rhetoric, and so far it’s definitely been a lot of work, but it isn’t killing me. I was able to take a lot of my upper level writing classes last year and the year before while I was taking the first 2 years of French classes. It worked out well because now I’m taking 3 or 4 French classes a semester and only 1 writing class a semester.</p>
<p>However, I will say that it becomes draining when you try and give your all to both majors at at the same time. Your two programs would be more similar, but for me it’s hard because I’m devoting all my time to writing and reading in French and then have to transition to writing and reading in English, which can be very taxing on the brain. I feel like my French classes get more attention since I have 4 of them and only 1 writing class, and last year I definitely put French on the back burner because I had 3 writing classes.</p>
<p>As far as free time goes, it depends on the week, really. At the beginning of the semester I worked A LOT and had to cut down to about only 15 hours a week. I just couldnt keep up. Even so, sometimes I have more time to work or hang out with friends, and sometimes I have no choice but to stay in because I have 2 French tests, a French composition, and a writing presentation all on the same day.</p>
<p>In the end, if you can plan it right and coordinate the classes appropriately, it can definitely be manageable. But if the two programs are very different, it’ll definitely be a bit more fatiguing just due the fact that your brain has to go back and forth between two distinct subjects.</p>
<p>If you really love both majors, you’ll find a way to get through everything. </p>
<p>I’m planning on adding Japanese as a double major (my primary major is East Asian Studies), and due to how the Japanese courses fulfill the EAS requirements, I’m pretty much knocking out two birds with one stone. And depending on what courses you take, the majors are pretty easy, although if you’re not very good at foreign languages, the upper level required language courses can kick you in the butt. I also tend to average around 13 units per quarter, and I always have enough time to do whatever in between such as attend school club meetings and social events. </p>
<p>There’s also this thing called “What college are you going to and how do they structure these majors?”
At my college, that wouldn’t be a double major. It’d be a dual concentration because they structure the business school where you get a BSBA with a concentration in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Real Estate (program ends with class of 2016), Marketing, Management, or ISYS. </p>