EE Help

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<p>First off, I'm going to be a freshman next year at UC Davis. My originial major was "psychology" and I have no idea why I had it at that, but in any case, I was considering changing it to EE (which lucky for me is possible at UCD).</p>

<p>A little background: I was always a little ahead of kids my age (only a year or two as opposed to a prodigy) because of Kumon (an outside math and/or japanese acceleration program) up until middle school where I was dropped from alg1 in the seventh grade b/c i didn't do any work.</p>

<p>Up until now, I have realized two things. 1) I couldn't have known as a child how that would affect me now (a year behind in math [precalc during senior year]) and 2) it's not as if it is all over for me, but when considering the pursuit of math-weighted majors such as engineering, I see the importance of a solid set of work and study ethics as well as math "skills".</p>

<p>Currently, i'm a straight B physics student, and thought I consider myself quite artistic, I find myself having trouble in the abstract part of imagining how physics works (all the other math stuff is cake since its just plug-and-chug or simple algebraic manipulation).</p>

<p>Besides the obvious "consult a million other references and books, professors, etc.", I was wondering if anyone had any helpful suggestions to ways to adjust myself with tackling this major in college</p>

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<p>"I find myself having trouble in the abstract part of imagining how physics works (all the other math stuff is cake since its just plug-and-chug or simple algebraic manipulation)"</p>

<p>If you are having a problem with the abstract part I do not advice you to take EE. EE is a mostly abstract major, which is why it is one of the hardest (some call it the hardest) engineering major. If you are good at math, then I would probably recommend you to double major math/psychology. Unless if you really want to do engineering, I would recommend mechanical engineering (they use alot of calculus, and is not as abstract as EE).</p>

<p>Tell me what other classes you might be interested in studying, and I can recommend you the major that might suit you.</p>

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<p>I would suggest take some physics classes at UC Davis and see if you still feel that way. I remember hating physics in HS but loved it in college. I am an EE major btw.</p>