<p>I am going to be a senior in high school this coming year and I was trying to decide on what to major in. I love reading and I like creative writing. I also like math and critical thinking. I know those dont really go together, but can you think of any college majors that might be good for me? Thanks for your help:D</p>
<p>Any college major will do, even if you never take a creative writing course. If you have to write, you will. You may or may not benefit from a writing course or major.</p>
<p>Cappex suggests there’s some 334 creative writing “programs” in the country. I don’t know that there’s that many “programs,” but it seems unlikely there are that many majors in CW. Many schools will let you weave certain writing courses together to form a “[creative] writing minor.” Combining CW with English is common, but you can combine CW with anything else the school offers. There’s no reason not to combine it with math or philosophy or rhetoric or Finance. What the creative writer needs to gain at college is experience–of other writers, of mathematics or William James or Wall Street. </p>
<p>Most creative writers (and by most I mean all but the independently wealthy) should plan on having a full-time day job that pays the bills and provides health insurance and a retirement plan. So your interests, academic and otherwise, should be varied if you want to be a creative writer. William Carlos Williams delivered babies. Toni Morrison worked as an editor in a publishing house. Nobel laureates, including Morrison, are frequently college professors long before they get international acclaim. Day job. </p>