<p>Hi this is my first post so sorry if its monotonous to you guys:
Ok so im basically declaring to NJIT Albert DOrmans honors college for college. Now i want to know what to major in. My dad is forcing me into applied physics so that is gonna be my minor or double major. My question is what should i truly do as a realy degree.
NJIT:</a> Academics: Undergraduate Majors
that is there majors list. i was thinking about mathematics in finance but i feel like it would become to mundane and it requires many tests and hours of work. But it is really interesting and has a good outlook all over the world. Engineering science looks cool but i feel like its unaccredited and wont get me a legitimate job in the future. I was also looking at engineering in general but dont know which one. i hate chemistry so not chemical engineering please. my dad says computer related jobs wont pay and there are so many people going into those fields that its useless to even do it. I enjoy math and science and am always on the computer. i wanna find something to major in that will keep me happy and interested while financially stable in the future. you can look through the list of majors and see one that might interest me as wel.. oh and no medical fields. Thank you for your help</p>
<p>This really isn’t something anyone here can help you much with, since we don’t know you well enough to know what would work well for you. You already know you like math, science, and computers, so that narrows it down a bit. Do you have to declare a major right away, or can you begin as undeclared/liberal studies and take a few classes first? I suggest waiting until sophomore year if you can to declare a major. That way you’d have some college experience under your belt and hopefully find a strong interest in one of your studies. Or, if you must declare right away, pick something you think you’ll like and you can always change your major after a year or so of general education requirements.</p>
<p>I agree with NovaLynnx, if you can stay undeclared without penalty, sign up for the general requirements courses and then poke around when you get there. There are many responses in this forum about career potentials of computer science, applied physics, engineering pastry chefs, electro-nuclear astronomers… 
with all kinds of opinions pro and con. </p>
<p>It’s just too soon. Get a semester under your belt, walk the various hallways of all the academic buildings, read the job postings, sneak into one or two sophomore lectures, flip through some of the texts at the bookstore for things that interest you. Then chose.</p>
<p>If you must declare, then check to see how much course overlap there is between potential majors freshman year (there is probably a lot), and choose something with first year courses that overlaps a bunch of majors. Then you can still take your time and switch majors in your first year without loosing anything.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice. I had to declare a major for the honors college so they place me in the right dorm. They seperate them by majors. I chose computer engineering as a temp major that way classes overlap and it makes my life easier if I want to . Thank you again for the advice. Ill take all the req classes then switch if I want to</p>