TobyBartels comments on The Importance of Saying "Oops" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TobyBartels 22 August 2010 02:16:25AM *  5 points [-]

I do not know at what point I ought to have known that I should have chosen a different major.

I suggest, by your second year. I expect that you hated those classes more than most of the people who continue in that major, and by checking with third-year students, you could have discovered this fact.

In my second year, I took classes that everybody traditionally hated and grumbled about. And I dutifully grumbled about them along with the rest. But secretly, I liked them. (There was much to complain about, but in the end, they were interesting.) And when second-year students asked me about them in my third year, I believe that I admitted this. (Ironically, I changed majors in my third year anyway, but for different reasons, and with little waste.)

Well, this is just a hypothesis, but I wonder (if you even notice this comment three years late) if it seems reasonable to you.