<p>It has really been eating me up for some time since I'm just starting my college apps. I have a strong passion for mathematics and have always found chemistry/physics intriguing. However, I also wanna really experience college life, not just study 24/7. During high school, I was sorta social, probably coulda been a lot more social. I wanna change that in college, really get to meet people, maybe have a girlfriend, and also pursue my studies. Initially, I thought of seeking engineering as a major, but I heard that it pretty much kills your social life since you have to completely devote yourself to schoolwork, unless I'm mistaken. Well anyways, I really don't know what major to choose that'll pretty much not completely ruin any chance I have at a social life and offer an above average income for a guy that's very skilled at math and science (english is another story, hehe).</p>
<p>If you want to "experience college life," you should go to community college and party on the weekends.</p>
<p>If you are going to college, you are there to study and work for your future. The harder you work now, the better off you will be later on. Don't waste your time drinking and "establish social skills" (aka drinking games and puking your guts out and skipping class and getting C's).</p>
<p>maelstrom99 you can do all that with a major in mathematics/chemistry/or physics.</p>
<p>It's all about time management and the people you hang out with. </p>
<p>The only reason why a lot of the people with your major have a horrible social life is because:</p>
<p>a) They are anti-social and play video games till their butt rots
b) They make friends in the beginning of college but those friends can't hang gout with you because you're only free during certain times and those times they aren't.
c) They don't have a wide variety of friends to hang out with so that they're never bored or stuck inside their dorm.</p>
<p>Be out going, make a lot of friends, remember their names, get their numbers, call them up whenever you're bored no matter how dumb you think it'll make you look and for the whole girlfriend part...</p>
<p>DO NOT DATE FRESHMAN YEAR. IT'S MORE FUN THAT WAY. LOL</p>
<p>I know a lot of people that drink and have fun that are engineers.
that being said, there's no problem with going into college undecided and taking some classes to decide what you really love.</p>
<p>You can have a life outside of classes even if you choose those majors. If you take salary into consideration, you're better off with engineering, math, or physics. The strong mathematical background make you an attractive candidate for many jobs.</p>
<p>I know plenty of engineering that still have social lives. You just have to have really great time mngt skills.</p>
<p>Well, I really would like to thank you for your replies. I always had this idea that engineers were like the snotty go-getters of tomorrow, working constantly and making differential equations their real friends and in the end, only getting money at the end. At least now I have a better idea on how to be successful in college, socially and academcally.</p>
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<p>Well, the truth is.. I've never had a gf in high school. I've mostly just had a couple decent girl friends. I don't know how much more fun it is to wait sophomore year, or whatever, I'm just gonna assume it has some sexual connotation to it.</p>
<p>Yes having sex with different girls in college is kinda what i hinted it at but...</p>
<p>Ok, freshman year a lot of kids make the mistake of dating. Why is it a mistake?</p>
<p>1) You are tied down already when you only started college. You need to test the waters.</p>
<p>now for the important reason</p>
<p>2) My older friends told me that freshman year a lot of students pretend to be what they're not. Once you start dating you'll get to know the real side of them and it may be ugly. Then it just becomes a big, hot, heaping pile of drama and crap. You do not want to deal with it. </p>
<p>I'm in my freshman year and yes I'm seeing this happen already. If you decide to date you better know who they really are as a person.</p>
<p>Start college undecided. And if you are going to a school with a fair amount of general requirements, your major won't affect your social life freshman year. For instance, I am in engineering but I am only taking one engineering class freshman year. Next year it will be a different story, but even then I know a lot of engineers who have social lives.</p>
<p>Neuroscience</p>
<p>The problem with general advice like "start college undecided" is that the advice is only valid at certain schools. In the UC system in CA, for example, if you don't apply as an engineer it is virtually impossible to change your mind later and decide you want to major in it. Quite easy to leave engineering for a major in Letters & Science, though.</p>
<p>My advice is to start off in engineering. If you dislike engineering after your first year, you still have the basic course load to easily switch to math or physics without being too far behind. If you enter and take classes like a physics major, you have to catch up to a more rigid engineering curriculum if you decide to switch in that direction. Keep in mind, I'm looking at this from the perspective of a student at my college.</p>
<p>you can never go wrong with nursing or computer science</p>
<p>I'd like to add a note. Engineers work REALLY hard. They have lots of work, all the time. But, the engineers I know are still social. They aren't party hard crazy people (well most of them aren't) but they still go out sometimes. Two guys and a girl I know (who are aerospace, electrical, and civil, respectively) all swing dance with me every week. One girl (electrical) is the director of a committee of which I am an assistant director, along with being committee director for NSCS publicity, and still finds time to go out with us on saturdays sometimes. There's just a whooooole lot of time management skills going on there. I envy them a little for that, because I completely suck at TM, though I don't envy their workload.</p>
<p>"If you want to "experience college life," you should go to community college and party on the weekends.</p>
<p>If you are going to college, you are there to study and work for your future. The harder you work now, the better off you will be later on. Don't waste your time drinking and "establish social skills" (aka drinking games and puking your guts out and skipping class and getting C's)."</p>
<p>our lives are short. for many of us, college is the best 4 years of our life. if having fun means I get a B+ in organic chemistry instead of an A (which happened to me last year), so what? is that the end of the world? for me college is 100% fun. learning about math is fun. learning about chemistry is fun. hanging out with friends is fun. going into Philadelphia and watching orchestra concerts is fun. what else should college be?</p>
<p>"If you want to "experience college life," you should go to community college and party on the weekends.</p>
<p>If you are going to college, you are there to study and work for your future. The harder you work now, the better off you will be later on. Don't waste your time drinking and "establish social skills" (aka drinking games and puking your guts out and skipping class and getting C's)."</p>
<p>our lives are short. for many of us, college is the best 4 years of our life. if having fun means I get a B+ in organic chemistry instead of an A (which happened to me last year), so what? is that the end of the world? for me college is 100% fun. learning about math is fun. learning about chemistry is fun. hanging out with friends is fun. going into Philadelphia and watching orchestra concerts is fun. what else should college be?</p>
<p>Drinking is not important for your future, but you can't deny the importance of social skills. That's college in a nutshell-you leave with a piece of paper that says you know a subject and social skills.</p>
<p>I'm in a highly competitive major. But it's fine because besides requiring high academic standards, the program pushes me to get involved with organizations, study/interest groups, and other campus/community activities. Even though they have a work component, they are also definitely social! Many people, I think, have a very narrow view of socializing... They restrict it to bars and athletic games. In my opinion, sure, games and alcohol are awesome... but if you are in a major where you cant do these things as much as other students, you can definitely still find ways to meet people and have fun.</p>
<p>I'm in one of the hardest majors at our school with 20 credit hours currently and a sport and three clubs on top of it. I will get a 3.7+ this semester for my GPA and I have yet to have a weekend at school that I have not been drunk at least once (this weekend I got drunk three times). </p>
<p>You CAN manage working hard with partying hard. It just means you have to be extremely motivated and can manage your time well. I probably will have to lighten my partying next semester because of harder classes and a lot of stuff for my EC's and sport. But I won't be holed up in the library on a Saturday night.</p>
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<p>At what point in your life do you stop working for tomorrow? IMO at night, you should always be able to look back on the day and said you had fun, and that you are better off than you were at the beginning of the day. You can work for tomorrow and enjoy today at the same time.</p>
<p>What's always coming but never arives? Tomorrow. Don't spend your life working to something that you'll never reach. At some point it is very worth it to enjoy where you are.</p>