Major decision/ Double major?

While I find it extremely odd that you have a passion for arts and yet are trying to pursue a math-based career I have to say that civil engineering might be able to unite your passion for art and engineering. While the coursework may be bland and the physics may be difficult you also have design requirements in the program (well you should anyway). You'll be able to unite your passion for art by using your drawing talents to design various things, and with your knowledge of engineering you may be able to bring it to life. People like things that look attractive.

 

I would just try to take courses in all of the subjects you are interested in during your first year, and then decide (I'm assuming you haven't started yet?)

 

With your interest in /talent for design, have you thought about architecture rather than CE?

I don't know what country you are in, but "major in interior design" sounds like a joke (the same sort of joke subject as "film studies" or "tourism management").

 

Huh, why?

 

Maybe I should rephrase that. Everyone I know who has such a strong interest in drawing/interior design/fine arts basically considers the sciences to be a death sentence.

 

This is maybe a good suggestion :) When I was in high school I loved math and art so I decided to go into architecture and got enrolled in a program for architecture while still in high school. But then I realised that my love for art was my love for my freedom in it and I began to despise the assignments I was given. I even loved drafting but wanted at least one assignment where I could draft whatever I chose. So it is good to consider what your love for the arts really is--a love for art full stop, or a love for the "feeling" attached to your artistry.

With that aside I am now double majoring in astrophysics and materials chemisty and I am really loving my classes :) So maybe you should do some research on the courses required for the majors you are interested in, see where the course load overlaps, and take some classes. Then you can really decide what you are good at and what you like doing.

 

I would go for math and interior design. The physics of practical civil engineering is not so demanding.

 

Summer I gather that you are waaay to hard on yourself lol :)
I at one point had NO idea what to major in...I went from English to linguistics to geology. The entire time I was doing many hours of research on astronomy related things and had it not been for one of my friends to suggest I major in astronomy, I would have kept researching it as a hobby. Being as you are in your freshman year, I do not think it is too late to take classes, you can take one class as an elective or you can check around in the community for some art classes for a minimal fee---the thing is art classes at community service centers still allow you more freedom and is less extensive than an art class at college...well unless you take a drawing class, I loved my drawing class. I wouldn't recommend an online class to discover this, but then again I have never taken an online art class so I may be partial. Although I am majoring in the sciences, I still do my artwork and it is better for me that way, but I know some people who have found a happy equillibrium between their love of art and their love of the sciences...mostly in technology/art related fields like graphic design, etc.

 

First of all, they made you take real analysis?

Secondly, if they really did, why would they, when you haven't even finished the calculus sequence?

 

It's not entirely odd. I would've majored in Music instead of Math (or double majored) if I had known what to do with such a degree. And don't forget Noam Elkies and other musical mathematicians. ;) Some people just have interests in multiple fields which have little in common.