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Looking for a major, but undecided. (+ a little bit of personal stuff... )

YK Raiko·11/18/2014, 2:58:44 AM·1 votes·792 views

I still haven't figured out what I should do as a career or in life. I have a subtle idea of what I like to do, but I can't find a major related to it. For example, I enjoy playing League of Legends, but there isn't a major relating what I enjoy doing (at least to my knowledge). I was thinking of Computer Science, but I suck at math and I hate it because either I don't get it or my math teacher sucks. I don't even know if CS relates to League but that's not the point. That point being, I want to find something I truly enjoy doing and study it before I start college ( if I ever be accepted considering I have a unweighted 2.7 GPA at the moment and SAT score in total is 1140 out of 2400 & that the fact that I'm hesitating on college admissions because I don't know what do on how to submit them and ughh, and I'm writing this to the League forums where I'm just wasting my time because it's totally unrelevant. But please help... any of you. Advice/tips will be appreciative and I will be grateful of it.).

4 Comments

ValyrianBlade11/18/2014, 3:33:23 AM1 votes

Do you have other interests?

I mean, there are so many career options - many not requiring high levels of education or skills in math.

For starters, the trades are becoming more in demand. You can look in to getting an apprenticeship, learning hands on. Examples would be carpentry, electrician, plumber, etc... There are other options, but I think the trades are often overlooked and are a good fit for hard workers who don't Excel academically.

As a math major who has studied computer science, believe me when I say not to study CS if you don't like math. Coding requires similar skills to math, and frankly most computer science work is not related to gaming. Many cs majors I know also say the gaming companies don't give anywhere near the work experience perks that the other software companies do (basically because gaming is so popular, so other software companies give good incentives).

Jenova Synthesis11/18/2014, 3:41:23 AM1 votes

Well, I'm only 16 so I might not be much help but I could try. c:

First of all, try to find something outside your current hobbies that you enjoy doing. If you haven't found something you want to do based on your current life, then you're probably not going to. For instance, I've always been a video game fanatic, but I've gotten into psychiatry lately and am thinking of that as a career path.

Finding a career in gaming and game producing is probably one of the hardest and most contested careers out there. Like I said, try to look for something you enjoy outside of gaming, like if you enjoy being around people or helping people try something in social work.

http://lifehacker.com/top-10-ways-to-find-your-career-path-1628537579

I read through that a bit and it seems to be pretty accurate.

Number 4 says to Ask Other People. I think that's a really good way to go. Other people tend to notice your strengths and weaknesses more so than you do. Ask around your family or friend group and see. If you're in high-school you can talk to your school counselor and ask him/her to help you.

It's not much, but it's some advice that may be helpful. I wish you best of luck man. c: Try to find something you're gonna enjoy and do well.

Trinityunicorn11/19/2014, 6:06:16 AM1 votes

Why don't you look for something you "might" like, and then do that, reason I say that is because most people change their minds, you don't have to completely have it made up. You have roughly two years of basics in college to get and along the way, you might find something that really interests you.

DrCyanide11/19/2014, 2:30:27 PM1 votes

Honestly, as a CS major, I hate it when I hear people backing away from Computer Science because they feel they aren't good enough at math. For most (all?) projects I've encountered, the math could be done by a 4th grader. Most of the time you're adding our subtracting one from a number, occasionally you need multiplication or division.

I'm not saying harder projects don't exist, but you shouldn't run from the subject because of a misconception you have about what kind of math you need to do day in and day out.

My advice to you would be to find some Python tutorials and work through them with a goal in mind. Start out maybe with "I want too make a way for people to play tic-tac-toe from the command line". If that goes well, then you can look at doing some League related programming using the Riot Games API (an API is like a dictionary of programming commands).

If while you're doing this you decide programming isn't for you, then you'll have made the decision on how much you like programming, not how much you dislike math.