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Originally Posted by John Mendenhall
Mistake. If you're going to forth the effort, make it count. Go for the degree.
Ask any systems analyst with over 10 years experience. Put your intellectual effort into what will pay off the most in the long term. That's why we use and program for Windows (retch), despite its shortcomings, and why there are still COBOL (shudder) programmers, and why object oriented programming (shiver) is so pursued.
Take the math. Be very introspective about how you are doing. You need A's for what you want. If you aren't doing that well in a course, bail. Try again later.
Keep in mind that physics is a lot more fun than computers. Good luck, and remember that luck favors the well prepared.
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I have to toss-in my two cents here. My passion since I was 9 years old was to be a chemist, but I hated math.
To understand chemistry like I wanted to, I had to take everything up to and including calculus and differential equations. Something blinked in my head in second semester calculus.
What I previously saw as an impediment to my goals suddenly became a priceless tool for what I wanted to learn.
I finally saw where these trigonometric, geometric, and physical equations came from. Calculus taught me to visualize 4th, 5th and 6th dimensional functions in ways that could be expressed precisely and systematically in a language called mathematics that other people could understand.
I ended up learning to love calculus and DE in the process. Nothing could have done so much to enhance my understanding of chemistry as being forced to learn the maths behind it.
So I ended up with a major in chem, and a minor in math.
Get the fundamentals down first.