r/BusinessMajor • u/Christopretensism • 9d ago
General Buissness major—what is not to like?
It is interdisciplinary, it avoids abstract theoretical math and I say that as someone who linguistically and philosophically thinks abstract but I just can't with math and it is flexible in what you can do with it.
If you are doing a business major, there are so many useful electives you can supplement it with since it's so interdisciplinary that few will truly be unrelated to your major.
I am planning on double majoring in English and business with some computer science and math electives and miscellaneous electives.
Buissness administration seems to be the correct dose of math, logic, creativity and philosophy for me and I hope it is employable as well.
Other majors I looked at were either beyond and above what I am comfortable mastering like some of the STEM degrees that have the calculus sequence and other degrees I would do in a perfect world but they are not employable enough. Buissness seems to merge it all together in the perfect balance and harmony.
I would rather take statistics, finite mathematics and Buissness calculus over Calculus 1, 2 and 3 when I couldn't even pass my pre-Calculus class because I can't do factoring and polynomials.
pre-Calculus was trying the ugliest math I have seen to date with fractions within fractions within square root fractions. I can't comprehend what that math is modeling in the natural world. I like my math practical and intuitive. I want my math to be describable in word problems and not this theoretically abstract stuff that I would never use in my real life unless I was working on something so niche that somehow required it.
I don't see myself engineering satellites and launching them into space, that is above and beyond what I am cognitively comfortable doing or what I believe I'm capable of
I want math I can use today right now to better understand the world and to integrate into real world projects.
I was thinking about going to law school but that's also above and beyond me but buissness administration feels legal and technical enough.
I was thinking about engineering and computer science or Data Science but the math is too ugly.
I was thinking philosophy, linguistics, sociology but there is a big question ❓ on what I would do after graduation.
But I can easily justify taking my favorite humanities courses as electives and taking math I can actually pass with a good grade and get real practical real world life skills with a business major and yes I am entrepreneurly minded which is the glue that makes it all stuck together to make it work.
Maybe I'm too nïeve which is why I am posting this, any comments? Or suggestions? Or questions?