I know that as a high school senior I don’t have to pick one yet, but where I go to college is heavily based on what I will be doing so I need to choose soon. I really wanna do a job where I feel I have a significant ability to change the world. Natually im very good in English humanities and social sciences and really enjoy history gov econ ect and am considering doing one of those for pre law where I would have a much better chance of gettng a 4.0. On the other hand engineering is very cool to me, but I’m not very naturally good in math and science and have to work 5x harder in those classes to barely get an A. It seems like to change the world you would have to be one of the best at what you do, I don’t think I could ever become the best engineer in the world because of how naturally weak in math and science I am. Please help!!!
Consider Economics:
http://www.merrimack.edu/academics/liberal_arts/economics/why_major_in_economics.php
Or perhaps Computer Science:
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/computerscience/why_cs
Both have far-reaching impacts in certain fields. Best of luck on your search. If you’re really not comfortable with math at all and want something that perhaps carries more purpose, you might be on track with your thoughts on law.
Definitely considering econ, think I might have mentioned that somewhere in my post. Definitely loved my ap econ class this year. But struggled a lot more in it compared to government which naturally to me. My main concern is the math to become seriously influential in econ would be beyond me. I’m doing ok in AB Calc, low A’s high B’s but I put in 3 times as much work for that class than gov and I have a 98 in AP gov
Also Compsci seems like the same issue of needing too much hardcore math skills to be influential in the field. I love math, but I’m no where near a wiz at the subject.
I have a lot of issues similar to you, would also love to hear peoples reaponse on this
“Changing the world” is a nebulous goal because there are so many ways - large and small - that you can change the world, and so many disciplines in which you can do that. There are greats in every field who have done that - great statesmen and philosophers like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Michel Foucault and Alexis de Tocqueville; excellent scientists like Rosalind Franklin, Marie Curie, John Snow, John Salk, Louis Pasteur, and Nicolas Copernicus; inventors and businessmen like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, John D. Rockefeller or Andrew Carnegie; artists, writers, and musicians like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Phyllis Wheatley or Claude Monet; social scientists like Emile Durkheim, Kenneth and Mamie Clark, and Claude Steele…I could go on. Basically, if you are talented and ambitious enough - and lucky - you can change the world from any field. (Of course, there’s also changing the world in a bad way, like Augusto Pinochet, Idi Amin, and Rafael Trujillo…)
Anyway, if you want to major in one of the traditional liberal arts and sciences field - social sciences, humanities, even the natural and physical sciences - then where you go to college doesn’t have to be heavily based on what you’ll major in. Most good colleges have good, solid departments in most of those fields. So pick based on a variety of factors - including knowing that you can get a solid well-rounded education from the place.