<p>I guess not many people check this, but does anyone know what they want to major in yet? I'm putting down physics, but I know I can't compete on an extremely high level, so I'm taking a lot of economics classes (for a hopeful business school post-graduate study). Any ideas?</p>
<p>I'm really interested in BCS (Course 9); at the same time I really want to do something with econ. I was thinking of double-majoring.</p>
<p>At the moment it's looking like Course VI-3 (Computer Science), with a minor in Course XIV (Economics). I'll probably try and apply for the M.Eng program (with the VI-A Internship), though I don't really know what will come of that until that time rolls around.</p>
<p>Depending on how I do my first year at MIT, I <em>might</em> be ambitious and try to get a second bachelors in Course XVIII (Mathematics). I've heard it pretty much goes hand in hand with CS, and so it would be nice to have another degree. However, the workload is absolutely killer, so I'd have to gauge it myself when I get there. Who knows. ;)</p>
<p>-Jared</p>
<p>My two cents -- if you're worried about a double being too much work, decide if you can/want to double-major somewhere in your sophomore year, not freshman year.</p>
<p>You can't officially double until you've had at least one year in your primary major (ie until the end of sophomore year), and you might be surprised at how much work you can handle sophomore year that you never thought you'd be able to do when you were a freshman. :)</p>
<p>For years I told everybody I wanted to be Course VI-3 (yes, I knew I wanted to go to MIT for years)... but now I'm not so sure. I've been thinking about linguistics (Course 24), but I don't know what it's like to get a humanities degree from MIT. I've heard some people call linguistics "fluffy", and it seems kind of strange to tell people I want to study linguistics at a school that's so famous for engineering... I'm interested in the computational stuff and the language processing research that goes on at MIT.</p>
<p>Can anybody give me some info on what linguistics and/or other humanities majors are like at MIT?</p>
<p>mit has the best linguistics evar... assuming you mean computer languages :)</p>
<p>im thinking of an aero/astro major with philosophy minor?</p>
<p>Thinking ECE, course 6 w00t w00t! I want to either minor in Business or get an MBA from Sloan :D</p>