<p>Hey guys I will be attending college next year and most likely I will end up @ a school with a rigorous course load. I was wondering if u guys handle stress on a daily basis or is it once in a while and if the homework ever gets to be too much. Also is it hard to maintain an A average. If you could please state your college and answer accordingly. Thank you.</p>
<p>Sent from my SPH-M920 using CC App</p>
<p>-Stress on a daily basis. Yeah usually.
-Hard to maintain A. If you’re in a throwaway major then no. Engineering, yes.</p>
<p>Basically it’s long, tiring, boring, and expensive. Maybe it’s because I’m a senior now and hate the world, but I’m struggling to think of anything remotely fun about the experience. The only positive is once you graduate (depending on major), you can do nothing until you die and collect nice paychecks. I’m also looking forward to a nice cubicle in the near future.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh…graduating sounds like the best part of college…lol</p>
<p>Sent from my SPH-M920 using CC App</p>
<p>College has been great so far. Stress, yes, every once in a while (then again, I rarely get stressed about anything) but balance it with fun and it’ll be great :)</p>
<p>
@UAKid, Engineering is not the only hard major. I’m tired of you bashing all other majors and saying yours is the hardest. Some do have more credits than others, but music actually has more credits required than just about any major, and then we have all those classes we have to take for 0 credit. I’m sure I’m not the only one on CC who is sick and tired of all your crap talk about other majors and how engineering is the only ‘real’ major.</p>
<p>^^ Trying to argue music is a hard major compared to engineering? Fail. I could probably do that degree as a hobby while working full time.</p>
<p>^^Dude, are you freaking new to CC? Liberal arts (which includes music) vs STEM (and people saying that STEM majors are the only “real” majors) is like a classic thread on here. We have one like every month or so, and shiz gets crazy. And ■■■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Also I would say that engineering is harder than music. More credits doesn’t mean that it’s harder. I’d come back when you’ve actually been to college and know something about it firsthand.</p>
<p>Ha, I loved college, and I was an engineering major! Yeah, it was hard, but a lot of fun, too. There were always people around to talk to. Texas football games were amazing. Parties were great. I would go back to school in a heartbeat if I could afford to. </p>
<p>One or two semesters DID suck. I had to take an electrical engineering course in circuits that was incomprehensible to me. I also had to take an architetural design class, and I don’t have an artistic bone in my body. So I just did the best I could and moved on. I still ended up with a 3.8 GPA, and a fellowship that paid for grad school.</p>
<p>salone, you will do well. If you got accepted to the school, they feel that you can handle the coursework. Just be sure to ask for help if you need it. Schools always have tutoring available. And don’t skip classes too often. Good luck!</p>
<p>Music is known to be a tough major, especially credit-wise, and time wise because of all the practice time. I should have been more specific though. If you’re doing a music major under the BA program, it’s not that bad. Under the BM or BME programs though, it’s lots of credits and time. They expect anywhere from 25 hours or more of practice time on your major instrument, plus your minor instrument, AND then all your other music classes and liberal arts classes, plus your other major if you have one. It’s the idiots that are all stuck up with the STEM crap that think no other major is ‘real’ just because they know nothing about it, which is what UAKid is. I can’t stand people like you.</p>
<p>^Ahaha, must depend where you go because music is a joke at my school. So don’t get mad at people for thinking it’s easy because at some schools it’s what people take when they aren’t smart enough for anything else. Also…NUMBER OF CREDITS DOESN’T MEAN ANYTHING. Idk how you can talk like you know all this stuff when you haven’t even been to college. I’m not saying music isn’t hard but don’t talk like you know everything because you don’t at all.</p>
<p>Mainelonghorn thanks…u r amazing 3.8 in engineering my friends complain about that major a lot…iluvpiano I was going to major in music, but I decided to major in polysci and become pre med. I love the discussion btw.</p>
<p>Sent from my SPH-M920 using CC App</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Yup will probably be the happiest day of my life up to that point. A stereotypical “best part of college” response might be meeting new people, being independent for the first time, expanding your knowledge of the universe etc etc. Erm…can anyone vouch for that?</p>
<p>iluvpiano is right, music can be a very tough major. I actually considered majoring in piano performance, but decided I wasn’t good enough to do it. Practicing five or six hours a day is HARD.</p>
<p>@RoxSox and all other anti-music and STEM-majors-are-best/hardest people:
It does somewhat depend where you go. I’ve heard stories of people going into it thinking it was an easy major, but soon learned otherwise. Go read information on the Music Major forum on here about credits and time spent practicing and everything like that. You’ll hopefully learn something. Yes, credits does mean something…it means we have to take more classes at time. At any good music school, music majors typically take more credits than the average student, which results in more time in class and more homework- lots more time than many other majors. Just because I haven’t actually been in college yet (but will very soon) doesn’t mean I don’t know anything. I’ve researched my major very well and talked to people who do know about it. You know a lot of majors only have between 40-50 credits required for their major (and then add gen ed and electives)…well guess how many credits I have to take for my major- 104 credits!!! That plus gen ed and everything else like the rest of you. With other majors at 40ish credits, music performance right there is 2.5 majors just on its own. And yes, they do often require many hours a day like the previous post says, although that varies from one instrument to another and one person to another and by teachers. I’m not saying a STEM major isn’t hard; I’m just saying it doesn’t beat all the other majors by difficulty as some of you seem to think. We could probably say STEM and music majors are some of the hardest, along with other performing arts and fine arts majors that also spend a great deal of time practicing/rehearsing and everything.</p>
<p>Credit load is only a vague estimate of actual work. I could and did breeze through 18 credits of gen eds and then get slugged in 12 credits of 300 level (junior) ECE courses. Same again with credits for you major, volume doesn’t imply difficulty.</p>
<p>I can also say I researched a car very well but it means nothing until you actually are in the driver’s seat.</p>
<p>Did I say it was easy? Not specifically, though at my school it IS easy, I know music majors. And people at schools where music is easy are going to think that it’s not a real major.</p>
<p>Agreed with UAKid, credit load is a vague estimate. I’ve had 4 credit classes that were a breeze with no work and 3 credit ones that were a lot of work. Most STEM majors take relatively few credits, but don’t try to tell me they don’t do much work (I’m not even a STEM major lol).</p>
<p>Calm yoself. It’s just your attitude. Don’t act like you know everything, because no amount of research for anything can compare to actually doing it, and college is no exception. UAKid’s right about the driving analogy. I didn’t say you don’t know anything, but don’t act like you know everything.</p>
<p>Also @RoxSox,
Even though I’m not in college yet (soon to though), I’d be willing to bet I know A LOT more about music majors than you do, because of all the learning and research I’ve done, because I’m going into that major. Being a music major is NOT the same thing as playing an instrument for fun like many people do in high school or as a kid when their parent forced them to take piano lessons. It’s not where you just take lessons like you did when your parents forced you to and only practice an hour a week…it’s A LOT BIGGER COMMITMENT than that. I think that’s why some people think music sin’t a huge major or a big deal because they don’t know the different between playing an instrument a little bit for fun/for kid lessons and actually going into it as a career and trying to get really good at it and taking it seriously.</p>
<p>5 Lowest Grade Point Averages</p>
<pre><code>Chemistry 2.78 GPA
Math 2.90 GPA
Economics 2.95 GPA
Psychology 2.98 GPA
Biology 3.02 GPA
</code></pre>
<p>5 Highest Grade Point Averages</p>
<pre><code>Education 3.36 GPA
Language 3.34 GPA
English 3.33 GPA
</code></pre>
<p>** Music 3.30 GPA**
Religion 3.22 GPA</p>
<p>[5</a> Hardest and Easiest College Majors by GPA’s - CBS MoneyWatch.com](<a href=“MoneyWatch: Financial news, world finance and market news, your money, product recalls updated daily - CBS News”>MoneyWatch: Financial news, world finance and market news, your money, product recalls updated daily - CBS News)</p>
<p>Suck it.</p>
<p>
Not always, but taking more credits often does mean more time in class and more homework. I’ve looked into how many credits I have to take and how much time in class for each one. Also, some music credits do require more work per credit than many other classes for the same credit. For your music lessons, which can be worth 2-4 credits per semester, you’re required to practice 25 or more hours a week. Hardly any other classes worth that credit require that much work.</p>
<p>You’re missing the point. Just cause you researched it doesn’t mean you know. If you’d accept that and not act like you know everything, people on here would like you more, I think. For example, YOU CANNOT know exactly how much work all your classes will be because you researched or talked to other people. That’s dependent on too many other factors and if you were smart you’d know that. Stop clinging to the credit thing. UAKid and I have ACTUALLY BEEN in college, so we know how it works. Music can be a little different, but it ain’t that different.</p>
<p>I’m sure you know more about music majors than I do. I hope so, because I don’t care that much, lol. I just have music major friends and they hardly do anything.</p>