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I went the engineering route and I'm glad I did. Originally it was a toss-up between math (which I enjoyed in high school) and EE, but since a lot of math grad
by tsotha 12y ago
I went the engineering route and I'm glad I did. Originally it was a toss-up between math (which I enjoyed in high school) and EE, but since a lot of math grads seem to go into teaching and I have nowhere near enough patience to teach, I went into engineering.
As part of EE I had to take statistics and linear algebra, plus enough calculus to understand surface and line integrals. I hated it. If I'd gone math I would ended up being just that kind of "disengage from the thinking part" person.
- j2kun 12y agoYou must also understand that the kind of math classes they make engineering students take is also not what a math major does. The common thing for engineering programs to do is have a special course called something like "linear analysis" that is a rushed computation-heavy mix of linear algebra and calculus/ODEs. It depends on your institution, I'm sure, but I'd be surprised if your experience was a faithful representation of what it would be like to be a math major.