<p>I just finished my first semester at an average state university. Although I'm doing really well academically here, I'm thinking about transferring for both social and academic reasons. I haven't made a lot of friends I can just chill and have a good time with here and I am getting pretty tired of classes where I'm just one of 250+ students jammed into a lecture hall (every single one of my classes here so far). The problem is that I'm not sure what I want to major in.</p>
<p>Right now I'm doing engineering pre-requisites, because I think environmental or chemical engineering would be pretty cool. I'm not big on working with oil but I think improving the way something functions to make it more environmentally friendly would be cool; especially if I got to work outside with whatever I was working with. Plus, if I ended up being really unhappy and was running some kind of chemical plant (what I don't want), I could go to grad school for Geophysics or something cool like that. From what I hear, if you don't know what you're doing, engineering is the way to go because everyone takes engineers in grad school.</p>
<p>However, I'm also considering doing some sort of econ/math business major. I like the puzzle-solving aspect of business (not sure if that makes sense to you guys but whatever) and can really pay good attention to details. Really, this is where my academic strengths lie. I'm awesome at math but some parts of science interest me more. Besides, who really gets excited from doing an integral? It's just not something you can get excited about like some aspects of science. I do actually enjoy analyzing numbers, though; I'll always want to make a data table or chart for random things that don't really have any significance, and this is more the business side of math. But I got advice that majoring in business/econ/math at a mediocre state school is not the best idea; and that you should go to an Ivy if you want a decent job in business. </p>
<p>I got a little off topic, but now you can see that I have lots of interest in many areas. Anyways, I'm pretty stressed, trying to choose a major is hard enough. Trying to choose a major while meeting transfer requirements for some schools... is killer. So what if I'm not sure what I want to do? Should I stick it out a year at my current school and explore around? I really don't like having the stick it out attitude for half of college, though. Or should I just apply to some schools with awesome science programs and some schools with awesome business programs and hope I know more come May? Also, what will a business school think if I'm taking classes like Physics 2, Chem 2, and Calc 3. Cause those, and Microeconomics, were going to make up my schedule next semester. Some schools I'm looking at don't have specific requirements for business transfers, but I'm sure they'd notice that the only business classes on my transcript are Micro and Macro.</p>
<p>Any advice? Thanks so much guys; I'll get back with you guys.</p>