How to Choose an Easy Major
Sometimes, midway through a semester, you realize that school is too hard and you’re sick of doing homework every night. Hey, the grind isn’t for everyone. Which means it’s time to switch to an easy major.
Here’s a few quick tips to finding a major with the least amount of work:
1. Go for anything with the word ‘studies’ in the title. Gender Studies, Latin American Studies, East Asian Studies, Classical Studies… you catch my drift. These are all majors with minimal work. Everyone knows that reading three-hundred pages and then writing a ten-page paper every week is easy. You’ll have nothing but free time.
2. Avoid anything that might possibly include math. That cuts out quite a few majors, but if you’re determined to do any sort of work, you can’t do math. Math is too hard. Math classes are really only for child prodigies. If you didn’t come out of the womb knowing calculus, you can’t take math in college.
3. If you’re determined to do science, stick with a social science. But avoid Economics, because there’s actually some math in that. History’s a good choice. It’s pretty much just reading about dead guys. Okay, so maybe there’s some reading. But if you’re not doing problem sets, your homework isn’t hard. One of my classmates was right when he said: “Social sciences don’t even deserve to have ‘science’ in the name.” Honestly though.
4. If you’re really determined to do a hard science, know that there is a hierarchy. On the lowest level, we have Environmental Science, Biology and Psychology. Pre-med is a step above because they have to take the MCAT and that requires physics. Ouch. Next, we have Chemistry, Biochemistry and Neuroscience. They actually use symbols for words, so they’re not in the lowest tier. On top, we have Math, Physics, and Computer Science fighting it out for hardest major. These majors are impossible and the only people who can actually major in them are superhuman. If you want to have any kind of life, don’t even try.