<p>This what to major in is driving me insane.</p>
<p>I def dont want to go in undecided, I find that a waste of time.</p>
<p>I like politics, I enjoy debating, BUT...humanities will most likely lead to a "sad" life. The thing is majoring in English, History will force me to go to grad school to get my law or phD.
I was thinking about IR but I need more direction on IR.</p>
<p>Is IR something one can live with or does one have to continue with grad school to make some type of living? </p>
<p>Im also looking at sciences especially biology, and biochemistry. Hows the workload in these fields? Can you go to med school with requirements fullfilled as a biochem major?</p>
<p>I need help with major choice, could people please try to convince me to go into a major? Either sciences or IR.</p>
<p>You can go go to medical school with any major. It’s just more difficult to finish out the pre-med requirements because they normally don’t have any overlap with the non-science major.</p>
<p>I personally don’t believe that major doesn’t really say anything about what job you’re going to have, unless you do nursing, business, engineering, or something super-specific like that. Majoring in humanities doesn’t necessarily lead to a “sad” life nor will it force you to do anything.</p>
<p>You can do well with a humanities major, and taking one won’t subject you to a life of utmost poverty. Even without outside experiences and internships, such a degree still qualifies you for a good number of corporate, entry level positions. Beyond that it’s completely up to the person.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that even engineers, biochemists, or other occupations that require math and science majors have to start out small, whether that involves CAD or laboratory preparation grunt work. I’m hesitating to comment on IR since I have little experience with it, but I think without a quantitative or language background (think econ/math or a foreign language), it’s no different than any other major.</p>
<p>I don’t think going undecided is a waste, especially since you seem interested in such disparate fields as bio and IR. I wrote about the benefits of going undecided in a different thread which I’ll put below, and I’ll also put another link of interest.</p>
<p>P.S. Any field where you’ll want to make significant progress in will probably require a graduate or professional degree (maybe with the exception of engineering, but even many engineers I know go back to get their Masters of Engineering or MBAs). A humanities phD actually provides little to no benefit over a regular B.A. in terms of raw job opportunities, unless you’re serious about becoming a professor.</p>
<p>“I def dont want to go in undecided, I find that a waste of time.”
A bigger waste of time is taking classes for a major, then finding out you don’t like it.
Biology and biochemistry would also “force” you to go to grad school.</p>
<p>i have a question about majors and undecided. For example if I was to apply for a very competive major in a certain school, does that hurt my chances getting in at all, or does the school just tell the applicant that they can’t take the certain major but can take others?</p>
<p>Depends on the school. At mine I know people who got put into undecided because they didnt get into a competitive major (business, engineering, architecture at my school) of their choice or they just got flat out rejected.</p>