I want to become a computer systems analyst, and I seen some posts that say computer science is the way to go. However, I hate science. Is itm the right major for me? I am in the itm club and am very passionate about the career.
Hey, I looked into computer science a little when I was looking through different types of majors I might like and as far as I could tell computer science doesn’t really have too much science in it. I think the science part refers to the science of computers not actual science classes like chemistry and biology. So I would say that if you are interested in computers and want to work with them I’d say go for it. I will also add that you shouldn’t major in something that you can’t see yourself doing just for the money because if you don’t like it then most likely won’t become successful at it and even if you do become successful, you might dread every day.
If you mean this in the sense that CS doesn’t have much of the natural sciences (i.e. chemistry, biology), you’re correct except for certain subfields. You may or may not have physics components depending on the school and the subfield of a given class. Keep in mind that you’ll most likely have to do some science sequence at some point though, even if you don’t end up using it in later classes. I took three quarters of chemistry, for example.
CS is essentially an applied math degree. If you’re strong in math, you’ll be fine for CS. And when I say strong in math, I mean strong in mathematical logic. If you’re just good at memorizing formulas but not so much at the general thought process for doing math, you’ll have a bad time in CS.
CS goes way beyond that though. Just working with computers, you would want something like IT. If you’re interested in computers in the sense of being interested in computation, then CS would be a good fit. If you’re interested in some other sense, CS probably isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, but it’s hard to tell without knowing more details.
OP, what’s ITM? IT Management? If it’s something like that, you’re looking at something like IT or MIS, not CS. Though CS could be used as a stepping stone for those, yes.
Science is not a field. It is a way of thinking, a process, a method. Or, as Wikipedia puts it, “Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe.” Analysis is a core tenet of science - you know there is a problem, and you look for clues and test a bunch of different things in a systematic way to try to find a solution to that problem.
That’s why I am genuinely confused when you say you hate science but you want to be a computer systems analyst. There is nothing in that job title that suggests anything but science. Computers? Science. Systems? Science. Analyst? Definitely science. How can you be “very passionate” about being a computer systems analyst if you hate science? How do you define science? Do you mean the life sciences specifically?