What major are you?

[mechana2015]

Started as a Mechanical Engineer, now a Graphic design major.

[TurkishMonky]

Computer Engineer w00t! But the freshmen computer classes are rediculously easy and boring. :-(

[Azier the Swordsman]

I'm not planning on going to college; but I'll be studying acredited courses at home for a career in the game industry. (At this point, God has not directed me anywhere else in particular.) Over the next year I'll be studying the game industry, BASIC, C++, Java, COBAL, ect. programming languages, along with some other fun stuff such as web design, PC repair, ect along with improving my Japanese and studying a few more languages such as Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.

[soul alive]

i'm known officially as an Environmental Design major, but for sake of ease i'm an Architectural Design major. i'm planning on getting my master's and would love to do restorative work once i'm out of school.

[Hephzibah]

Math major.

Obviously, I agree with Talame.

WOOT! Maths shall rule the world!!!

Just a question though... does studying maths in uni give you a good job at the end? I'm studying finance, which has ALOT of maths but it is all applied to real life situations such as the stock market and such.

[Warrior4Christ]

I also agree with Talame, but I'd imagine engineering maths would be quite different to finance. We have waaay more differential calculus.

[Hephzibah]

I also agree with Talame, but I'd imagine engineering maths would be quite different to finance. We have waaay more differential calculus.

T___T I miss differential calculus! And integration and all those nifty thingies that look really difficult but are quite actually quite fun T___T Perhaps I should do engineering...

[livewire]

Math scares me....at least the math that goes above college algebra and geometry....

[Technomancer]

WOOT! Maths shall rule the world!!!

Just a question though... does studying maths in uni give you a good job at the end? I'm studying finance, which has ALOT of maths but it is all applied to real life situations such as the stock market and such.

It can, it depends on how you apply it and what you've studied. What you're doing, financial mathematics certainly does have a practical application and can get quite sophisticated. I'm a bit tempted myself to sit in on some of their lectures covering stochastic calculus, which has some applications in signal processing and physical modelling, but is not currently taught within my department.

I've often been struck with the fact that as an engineer, you can never know too much mathematics. Subjects that may have been relatively esoteric several years ago for instance are beginning to have applications as we delve into ever more sophisticated problems in science and engineering. I mentioned stochastic calculus as one area but there are several more. For example, wavelet theory, information theory, and so on.

By way of example, you may wish to ponder the following subjects of current importance to industry:
Optimization theory
Numerical Modelling of partial differential equations (used pretty much everywhere).
Statistical methods in signal and image processing
Computational modelling in chemistry
Inverse Problems (e.g. medical tomography, geophysics, etc)
Number theory (cryptology)

Also, for those finance people:
http://www.math.mcmaster.ca/phimac/

[Sammy Boy]

I would like to take this time to say that... MATHS ROCKS!

It does? :p
I did integration, calculation of volumes of solids, etc...
And the most complex maths I have ever had to do in real life was multiplication.

Maths has robbed my youth .... NOOOO *cries in pain*

I finished a Bachelor of Computer Science.

Now I do theology, but I don't know what "major" I will do. Maybe apologetics.

[Icarus]

It does? :p
I did integration, calculation of volumes of solids, etc...
And the most complex maths I have ever had to do in real life was multiplication.

Maths has robbed my youth .... NOOOO *cries in pain*

Obviously, you haven't found the right job