<p>So, I carry a few college credits, good enough to skip a year credit-wise. However, I don't have the certain credits done to take this class on the Fall that is only offered that season, which I need to obtain my degree, so this is going to push me back to the regular four year track. However, on both my spring semesters I'm going to be with hardly any classes at all! </p>
<p>What should I do with this extra time? My counselor said to just pick up a second major/minor, but which one? What's the best way to use this time? Take Lib.Eds? I was thinking of just taking a math major since I have an interest in it, but I'd like to hear other people's opinions.</p>
<p>Why not get a job/research experience in your field? Great way to get some relevant experience that looks good on your resume, while also potentially earning a little cash on the side. Dual degrees, when coupled with engineering, often become useless as the individual generally really uses one or the other.</p>
<p>(1) What is your primary (major) field of study?
(2) What do you like about this primary (major) field of study and why?
(3) What are your ultimate career goals - industry, academia, K-12 teaching, government, etc.
(4) Besides your current primary (major) field, what’s your favorite subject?</p>
<p>We’ll all be in a better position to recommend double majors if that’s what you want to do. If you’re doing it just for utility in job hunting, you should probably get an internship instead. Only double major if you want to study the second field… perhaps at the cost of some employability. (I’m doubling and wouldn’t have it any other way).</p>
<p>Yeah your answer to (3) is pretty important. If you want to go to graduate school, taking some extra courses in mathematics and maybe getting a minor can be pretty useful and not just be something to do because you enjoy it.</p>
<p>You can consider it, but prerequisites are a good thing to heed when you first enter college. Ignoring prerequisites is something you do after you’ve been there for a while, gotten used to the difficulty, and can gauge whether you can do well in the course.</p>
<p>Gstein: I was thinking along the lines of an Internship, but I thought I could just do some in the summer.
Auburn:
To answer your questions,</p>
<p>1) ChemE
2)
3)Industry, preferably not academia (though I haven’t had research opportunities, so I wouldn’t know.) Definitely not a teacher.
4)I love math. Definitely my most favorite subject.</p>
<p>silencekit:I think Grad School COULD be a possibility, I don’t have the heart to discard it xD. If I were to go to it, it definitely be on something ‘math-ish’.</p>
<p>mrego: Already asked. They basically said “Your only choice is a double major/minor, or get rid of your lib. eds.”</p>