<p>There’s a huge difference between “pre-med” and “med student.” Most of the freshmen at my university are “pre-med” so I think absolutely nothing of it.</p>
<p>"[I’m always a bit concerned others will think I just chose one of the majors off the top of the “best paid straight out of college” lists.]</p>
<p>What’s wrong with that?</p>
<p>Others may think that you chose it because you wanted one of the hardest majors too."</p>
<p>Well I guess it’s not too bad, but see it comes from the most common reaction I get: people always mention something about money but the money wasn’t my one intention going into it which makes it a little annoying. Well, that’s not to say it wasn’t part of my decision! I really like chemistry, math, and physics, and the employability of an engineering degree after college. I haven’t gotten up into the upper level classes yet so I can’t really comment on the difficulty. I don’t know if I could consider a specific few majors that are the hardest because it has a lot to do with your passion for the subject, competition (nursing and pre-med among others come to mind), and an individual’s own ways of working/learning.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t really face many stereotypes about my perspective major, yet, as I’m a high school senior.</p>
<p>However, when I tell people what I’m majoring in, I usually get the same reaction and it gets a little old after a while:</p>
<p>“What are you majoring in?”</p>
<p>“Occupational Therapy.”</p>
<p>“Oh, what’s that? Is it like Physical Therapy?”</p>
<p>“Well, in a way… <em>goes into explanation</em>”</p>
<p>I imagine that would be a less common scenario at college, as people at my school would be a little more familiar, knowing other OT students. Or, I could be having this conversation for the rest of my life. Who knows?</p>
<p>[Well I guess it’s not too bad, but see it comes from the most common reaction I get: people always mention something about money but the money wasn’t my one intention going into it which makes it a little annoying.]</p>
<p>I think that you have to have a passion for the engineering majors to put up with the workload and the difficulty. Perhaps others don’t appreciate that. But think of the reaction you’d get if you were a finance major.</p>
<p>[Well, that’s not to say it wasn’t part of my decision! I really like chemistry, math, and physics, and the employability of an engineering degree after college.]</p>
<p>That’s great! You’re doing something hard, that you love, that happens to pay well, and contributes to society.</p>
<p>I’m not going to college yet, but whenever I tell people that I aspire to be a dentist, I always get so many disappointing responses (mostly facial). To mention a few…</p>
<ol>
<li><p>“But everyone hates dentists”</p></li>
<li><p>“Why not a doctor?”</p></li>
<li><p>“Eww, why?”</p></li>
<li><p>“dentists have the highest suicide rates”</p></li>
</ol>
<p>It’s so frustrating. And now I’m actually having second thoughts.</p>
<p>Anyone know of any stereotypes of majoring in Architecture? I’m going to major in it so I’m just wondering what other people think of it.</p>
<p>The architecture kids at my school are INTENSE. They have cots in Dudley (the design building) so they can take naps there, and they stay awake for like 36 hours at a time doing projects. This is not stereotype, I personally know several people who have done this.</p>
<p>ravenclaw17: why would you like to spend your whole day in a boring dentist office looking into nasty decaying mouths and getting saliva all over yourself</p>
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you should be</p>
<p>Dentist get paid good money and we will probably have good employment rates.
Others are probably jealous that their future job won’t pay as much.</p>
<p>I am a physics major and every time I tell someone they’re eyebrows shoot up, whistle and go “Wow I could never do that.”
yea and after visiting a few physics open houses, I don’t think I can either. But I’m premed so when the conversation inevitably turns to “so you want to stare into telescopes all day?” or “hey, when you find aliens, will you name them after me?” I bring that up and everything is right in the universe.</p>
<p>I am thinking of switching to psychology.</p>
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1st of, a lot of jobs pay more so i highly dout that anyones “jealous”
2nd of all, money isn’t everything… would you have a job that pays good but you would be miserable in? no, didn’t think so</p>
<p>premed123, every time I meet a biophysics or physics major planning to go to med school, I have the same thought: it’s not going to happen. Physics has been rather unkind to my GPA recently, and I think that’s pretty much par for the course.</p>
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<p>Sociology and Philosophy.</p>
<p>Honestly, I haven’t encountered any stereotypes as a math major, other than the arithmetic one. Honestly, the LAST person you should ask for simple arithmetic would be a math major. I get my arithmetic right, but it always takes me longer than my classmates.
One thing that makes me go nuts is when people ask what applications each theorem etc. has on real life. You shouldn’t go into a math major expecting to use it everyday, because most of the useful stuff ends with calc 1 (or 3).
Also, the applications (especially to physics) I am terrible with. No doubt I can get through them, but its like trying to cut wood with a lawnmower.</p>
<p>I’m a classical studies major (called “greek and roman studies” at my school but its the same thing). The most common reaction is “what are you going to do with THAT?”, in a close second is “I have always been really interested in the greek gods and stuff!”
Most people seem to think its a really cool thing to study (probably because they have never had to read Livy), but not very useful. There doesn’t seem to be that many of us out there either, which means that often people are a bit taken off their guard when you tell them what you study.
If I tell them that I am minoring in anthro, they imediatly focus in on that because it is more common and familiar.
Or, if you are my father, you just shake your head and call it “that greek *****” when people ask you what your daughter is studying.</p>
<p>Person: What do you plan to do after high school?</p>
<p>Me: I’m going to X University and majoring in math and economics.</p>
<p>Person: -blank stare- But what do you want to <em>do</em>?</p>
<p>Me: There’s lots of jobs you can get with an econ degree. I’d love to be an economist one day, but you can be anything from a financial analyst to an accountant…</p>
<p>Person: -blank stare- But what do you want to <em>do</em>?!?!</p>
<p>Me: -blank stare-</p>
<p>Finance major to most girls means $ 
“Oh, so you wanna be a banker right?”,“Do you have any investments now?”, and the guys generally think that our bunch is “lazy and unfocused” No shiz… the airheaded snowflakes (who happen to be the most attractive) just give you these glazed over stares into your eye when you say banking 
put the fact that I am a Saudi (“So, does your family, like, own oil reservoirs?”,“Yes, Ghawar” it ALWAYS works), its an actually beneficial stereotype for my major!</p>