<p>Hey guys, </p>
<p>This question is bothering me very much. I'm very confused on what I want to do with my life. I originally wanted to do MCB and then go to med school, become a doctor, and practice or do research. But, the idea of med school and the supposedly competitive premed at cal is turning me off. Later, I had the idea of doing a double major in CS and Business. The lack of many shared prerequisite classes between these majors is also turning me away. I don't want only a business degreee, because then I have no specialization, no skills. I don't want to do only CS because I don't want to be stuck in programming for the rest of my life, nor do I want to be "academically inferior" to the EECS students. I hear its hard to transfer into engineering, so I'll leave engineering majors out of my list of possible majors. So many people tell me about the high unemployment of architects, so architecture is out. I suck at Physics. I hate Poly Sci and government. I don't find any practicality in psychology, and definitely don't want to do the any of the humanities majors. I sort of find economics interesting, but I don't think that I'd have a healthy career in it. Same with Molecular Toxicology; I like it, but don't think that I'd have a great career in it. I'm very worried because I don't have anything that I really really really want to do for the rest of my life. I'm sort of just drifting. Can you guys suggest some majors for me to look into, or what would be even better is if you could like jot down your major and what career you plan to take up so that I can have a better idea about my future. Thanks</p>
<p>i dont really like them cuz i dont find practicality in them. Call me superficial. I call it being indian. I dont enjoy them either. iono why, i’m just ignorant of them.</p>
<p>Well I think the humanities are the most colourful and interesting areas of study. After all we are all human and what’s more interesting than studying what makes us us.</p>
<p>If you’re just ignorant of them I suggest you take the time to go through some of them. Languages, music, history, etc. All of them are truly beautiful. And the thing about a major in the humanities is that it is very flexible. Sounds like something you’d be interested in if you’re not quite sure what you want to do. I suggest you just take some time and go through them.</p>
<p>why dont you check out the majors in the college of natural resources? im pretty sure its less competitive and there are still biology/science majors in there.</p>
<p>ya molecular toxicology is in cnr, they also have stuff like nutritional science, which if i dont go to med school, would be pretty much useless. They have Molecular and Environmental Bio, but based on how badly i did with the water, phosphorous, nitrogen, carbon cycles in bio, I don’t think i’d be too good with them. lol i dont even remember how the water cycle works. </p>
<p>hey iamsounsure, are you unsure about ur major/career path too, or were u unsure about ur college decisions? Yeah i guess the humanities majors are quite flexible, cuz Tom Anderson, the prez of myspace did a double major in english and rhetoric at cal.</p>
<p>I am unsure of my future and of everything. Of even being accepted to any college. If I do however I am considering a double major in English and chemistry. I love the humanities and sciences particularly English. Once I do what I love, I am sure I can figure out where to go from there.</p>
<p>A common misconception I see here, and in fact used to have myself, is that LS CS is inferior to EECS. This is simply not true, because you take the same CS classes in L&S CS, minus the extra Physics, Math, and other sciences. </p>
<p>Upon graduation, the salaries of EECS people and L&S people are relatively similar, give or take a few thousand due to way the sample was taken (I am referring to the statistics on the Career Center website). </p>
<p>And to be honest, if a person believes that CS people are “academically inferior”, he or she must have an overall low view of virtually every other major that isn’t EECS or some kind of engineering major, namely humanities majors. Those people are elitists whose opinions don’t necessarily reflect reality. </p>
<p>I suggest you choose what you want to do and ignore what others will say about your major. It really doesn’t matter what they say, especially if your future prospects are nearly identical like in the case of EECS vs. CS.</p>
<p>yeah i thought i’d do like a double major in like business and comp sci or mcb and econ, but its incredibly hard cuz prereqs are incredibly different in majors such as those and english and chem. I hope everything works out for u, r u a junior?</p>
<p>Hey Battler, if i were to do CS, and miss out on the hardware/physics portions of the EE in EECS, would I be severely deprived later on in my line of work or job market?</p>
<p>If you looked at what kinds of careers that CS and EECS people have after graduation, you will see that most of them get the same kinds of jobs, namely programming/software engineering jobs. For those kinds of jobs, hardware and physics are not necessary. CS and EECS people essentially compete for the same jobs, so I would hardly call a CS major “severely deprived” of job opportunities. </p>
<p>It all depends how well you do in the program and how good you are at what you do.</p>
<p>try designing your own major! its called interdisciplinary studies and you can pick classes from pretty much any major and make them required for yourself. pretty flexible for people who don’t want any of the pre-determined classes for the standard majors.</p>
<p>[Interdisciplinary</a> Studies at UC Berkeley: Welcome](<a href=“http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/isf/]Interdisciplinary”>http://ls.berkeley.edu/ugis/isf/)</p>
<p>Take a look at cognitive science, it’s one of the most interdisciplinary majors in L&S.
It’s about the study of the mind through the perspective of (and taking courses in): Psychology, Philosophy, Computer Science, Neuroscience, Culture/Society, and Linguistics.</p>
<p>The only thing that scares Cog Sci majors are CS61A and CS188, since they’re both requirements and most people who they have to compete with are CS/EECS majors in that class.</p>
<p>Some people I know do these combinations as a double major:
- Cog Sci + MCB (neurobio emphasis)
- Cog Sci + CS/EECS</p>
<p>I know some Cog. Sci. majors who already graduated and are now programmers, graphic designers, counselors, and teachers.</p>