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I faced the opposite decision... a double major in math and CS or just the math major, and decided to do only the math major. It was the best decision of my col
by impendia 15y ago
I faced the opposite decision... a double major in math and CS or just the math major, and decided to do only the math major. It was the best decision of my college career. But I still took the upper level CS courses that interested me! So drop the math major, but learn Galois theory (or whatever) anyway.
That said, I don't recommend graduating in three unless for economic reasons you have to. If you can, take the fourth -- study abroad is awesome, as others suggested -- it is also a great chance to take advanced courses in other disciplines. I took an upper-level philosophy course, it was hard and I learned a ton.
- dmazin 15y agoI'm a junior in applied math, and I'm noticing that a whole lot of my fellow applied math majors are also computer science majors. I've also seen that lots of the professors who let undergraduates do research look for experience with C or R. I should be learning programming if I want to go to grad school, shouldn't I?