Should You Be a Math Major? Pros & Cons - By Lumos Learning
| 00:0-1 | trying to channel nerd vibes with my glasses , but | |
| 00:02 | still be cool . I'm just not gonna use these | |
| 00:05 | all the season for the thumbnail . Hello . So | |
| 00:07 | this week , I wanted to go over the pros | |
| 00:09 | and cons of being a math major . I tried | |
| 00:11 | to think of an even list of both pros and | |
| 00:13 | cons , but I thought of twice as many pros | |
| 00:15 | than Collins . Maybe I'm biased because I am setting | |
| 00:18 | that I'm going to go through the pros first one | |
| 00:22 | . The most important reason for me was that it | |
| 00:24 | was very interesting to me . I always really liked | |
| 00:25 | it in high school , and so I wanted to | |
| 00:27 | keep doing it . Um , I liked solving problems | |
| 00:30 | . I still do . I find math super engaging | |
| 00:33 | , especially in comparison to other subjects like history , | |
| 00:36 | where there's a lot of reading required with math , | |
| 00:39 | you also have to read a lot . But then | |
| 00:40 | there's a huge component that involves doing things that is | |
| 00:43 | very active , and I know in other classes like | |
| 00:46 | history , the active part would be writing essays , | |
| 00:49 | and for me , I did enjoy that , but | |
| 00:51 | it was so subjective that after a while it became | |
| 00:54 | really frustrating for me because I would get English teachers | |
| 00:57 | and history teachers who would have different comments about my | |
| 00:59 | essays . And so , with math , there's a | |
| 01:01 | right answer . There's a wrong answer . And so | |
| 01:02 | I guess that's too . It's interesting , and there's | |
| 01:05 | a right and wrong answer . The third reason . | |
| 01:06 | Because there are a lot of career options , especially | |
| 01:09 | within finance . A lot of math majors going to | |
| 01:11 | investment banking , corporate banking , commercial banking , insurance | |
| 01:14 | , private equity teaching Consulting is also a big one | |
| 01:17 | . Those are the main math related fields , but | |
| 01:20 | there are also plenty of fields that math majors going | |
| 01:23 | to that are very unrelated to math . So I | |
| 01:25 | like that math opened a lot of doors for me | |
| 01:27 | , career wise . Fourth reason is that math is | |
| 01:30 | very collaborative , especially in college , especially at Northwestern | |
| 01:33 | . In all my math classes , I've been assigned | |
| 01:35 | weekly problems . That's where we're encouraged to work in | |
| 01:37 | groups on problems , which is really fun for me | |
| 01:40 | . I like seeing how other people think . One | |
| 01:42 | of the coolest things about math is that there's generally | |
| 01:44 | just one correct answer . But there are so many | |
| 01:47 | different ways to get to the correct answer . And | |
| 01:48 | so I love seeing how my classmates come up with | |
| 01:50 | solutions . I think we're on five . Maybe math | |
| 01:55 | can be more applicable than a lot of majors , | |
| 01:57 | especially if you're studying applied math , which I recommend | |
| 01:59 | over pure math . Six . You develop critical thinking | |
| 02:02 | skills . This is something that every math department boasts | |
| 02:06 | about . I agree that you will develop critical thinking | |
| 02:09 | skills , but I don't think that math is the | |
| 02:11 | only major that will teach you those skills . I | |
| 02:13 | think most majors will teach you how to think critically | |
| 02:15 | . So I put this one on the pros list | |
| 02:18 | but would also go on the pros list for virtually | |
| 02:21 | any other major . Studying math in college teaches you | |
| 02:24 | to be very patient . I personally think math professors | |
| 02:27 | are the coolest professors , so if you are a | |
| 02:30 | math major , then you get to work with math | |
| 02:31 | professors all the time . The last reason is kind | |
| 02:34 | of a dumb reason , but there are a lot | |
| 02:36 | of positive stereotypes . For example , people assume you're | |
| 02:39 | smarter . I would say that that is a common | |
| 02:42 | stereotype that can work in your favor , and along | |
| 02:45 | with that , I think people tend to take you | |
| 02:47 | more seriously on certain subjects . Cons . the first | |
| 02:51 | con is that being a math major at college is | |
| 02:53 | very hard for me . This was actually a pro | |
| 02:56 | . I wanted to be challenged . I like being | |
| 02:58 | challenged . I get bored pretty easily , and so | |
| 03:01 | I try to take challenging classes . Although I think | |
| 03:03 | for a lot of people , this would be on | |
| 03:05 | the cons list . So I'm just gonna keep it | |
| 03:06 | on the cons list because your classes are harder , | |
| 03:09 | your GPS probably going to be lower than it would | |
| 03:11 | be if you were studying something else . This , | |
| 03:13 | of course , isn't true for everyone , because there | |
| 03:15 | are always those geniuses in your math classes that will | |
| 03:17 | get is no matter what . Another con is that | |
| 03:19 | you will graduate , lacking writing skills and communication skills | |
| 03:23 | unless you go out of your way to take extra | |
| 03:25 | writing classes or public speaking classes . So the last | |
| 03:28 | con is the negative stereotypes that come with being a | |
| 03:30 | math major . When you tell people that you are | |
| 03:33 | a math major , a lot of times they assume | |
| 03:35 | that you're socially awkward , which is very true for | |
| 03:37 | me , um , and that you're that communicating and | |
| 03:41 | bad at writing , and sometimes those are true . | |
| 03:44 | They're all true for me . So these are the | |
| 03:47 | pros and cons of being a math major |
DESCRIPTION:
The pros and cons apply to all math majors, and are important to consider if you are thinking about studying math in college.
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