If I'm not good at something or don't like it in high school, is there a chance I will like it in co

College Majors Math/Computer Science Majors
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I really wanna major in stats/comp sci because it seems a little interesting and it has good job prospects. If I’m taking ap stats and ap comp sci rn in high school and I don’t enjoy them TOO much, is there a chance I will like them later?

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Yes.

From high school, I wanted to do journalism.

I ended up with a bachelor’s in applied mathematics/statistics.

I ended up hating statistics, but I just got done helping a graduate student with their statistics class. It wasn’t so bad.

I ended up working in software as a computer programmer, even though I hated programming in college.

I didn’t think I would want to major in engineering, but I am going back to school for a mechanical engineering bachelor’s/master’s program.

Your mind will change several times. Sometimes you get it right the first time. Sometimes it takes more time to calibrate.

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There are a lot of totally different types of statistics and computer science classes and fields. I love most computer science classes that I have taken but I have also hated a few of them more than any other subject. Sometimes it’s the subject that I don’t like and sometimes it’s just the professor. You also have to keep in mind that what you will be doing as a career will likely be quite a bit different than anything you do in class.

You have to be careful though about getting into something that you may not like. When I finished my computer science 1 course not long ago, I felt like a large percentage of the students could care less about the subject and just wanted good job prospects. I don’t know if they will even be able to graduate with a computer science degree because our program is so rigorous and I don’t see people handling the upper division workload if they aren’t passionate about it.

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I always found the classes of statistics and CS to be a lot more dull and boring than the work itself. That was because the underlying principles are somewhat tedious and have to be learned that way.

If you see redeeming features beyond the dull tedium, I think you’ll be able to appreciate them. But you have to actually work hard and understand why things are the way they are in those fields.