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I moved into my dorm at Northeastern University on Wednesday, August 27th. The big city, the bright lights, and numbers swirling around in my head. I was ready to embark on my 5 year journey as a math major.
Months ago when I was applying to schools and thinking about what I wanted to do, I knew one thing for certain: I had no clue what I wanted to do. All throughout all of my schooling before this I knew I liked math, so that narrowed the options down a bit but I still had no clue what I wanted to do with this math. I was pretty sure I didn’t like theoretical math and so I chose applied mathematics. But what would I even apply this math to? This is the main and most attractive reason of why I chose this major over any other: anything.
The versatility and flexibility that being an applied math major gave me reassured me that I picking a wrong major won’t set me on a path of dread and unhappiness. But not everyone I run across sees being a math major this way. I am greeted with contorted faces and sounds of actual disgust when I tell them I am a math major, which is usually followed with “what can you even do with math?” My response is usually along the lines of “what can’t you do with math!”
In today’s age data analytics has a place in every field and industry. The emergence of “Big Data” has led to the creation of hundreds of new types of jobs and will continue creating jobs in the coming years.
The pages on this blog are a few of the many options of professions and applications for a math major.
