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Papa diagne
September 16 2023
Writing 2
Changing my major to accounting.
Peer pressure is a very deadly poison if easily affected by it. Peer pressure can be seen anywhere you go caused by the closest people around you, even your parents. Peer pressure can be a good thing for some events like peer pressuring someone into going to school but usually it is bad peer pressure like smoking or drinking. My teachable moment is that don’t get peer pressure easily, follow your own dreams or you will regret it in the future and I will explain why.
Did you know that in CCNY, you need math all the way to calculus 3 if you are trying to do any engineering majors. This is one of the reasons why I left CCNY to attend Baruch college. But the main reason why I left computer science is that computer science is just not for me. My family, especially my brother, told me that I should try computer science since it will be so fun. I was skeptical at first since computer science requires some type of knowledge about computers and I had little to no knowledge about computers but still gave it a chance due to peer pressure from my family. Terrible idea, it was one of the worst ideas I had ever done. First to begin with, I’m not saying that the classes I took while doing the computer science major were boring, hard or confusing but I’m not saying they weren’t. Normally in life, signs are thrown at you to let you know that you should get out of there. That sign was my first quiz in the Calculus 1 class. Keep in mind that calculus 1 is the minimum math class you need to reach if you want to be enrolled into the engineering school so the first quiz of the class should be the easiest right? A 55%, what was supposed to be the easiest test and I failed the test. As clear of a sign this was, I still ignored it. After some time, the second quiz popped up and god threw another sign. Can you guess what was the score I got on my second quiz? If you said 55%, you are correct. As you can see, I was struggling and for some reason still thought it was a good idea to stay. But since then, I was doing well, passing all the rest of the quizzes and the tests and somehow found a way to pass that class with a C. That math class was the only class related to computer science that I had taken at that time. Since I passed, my family again pressured me to take more classes related to computer science including actual computer science classes. Again like an idiot, I listened thinking this would be a breeze but yet again a terrible idea.
First of all, the computer science classes were not bad. In the beginning, they were easy to understand since the classes started slowly, it was easy to keep up but it wasn’t really as interesting as I thought it would be. As time passed, it made me realize that I was not going to succeed as a computer science major. If I thought I kept up with the class, I realized I was 2 chapters behind. As time passed on, the more distant I was from catching up. It made me realize that it might not be best to keep moving forward and I should start going another direction but the one thing that made me realize that computer science was not for me was calculus 2. Calculus 2 just doesn’t make sense. Here is an example of what I had to deal with: ∫e^sinx (cosx)dx. Oh and this was supposed to be easy to do. I had no hope in that class plus the teacher wasn’t really helping at all. Her favorite phrases in that class were “figure it out” and “you should’ve known this by now” to stuff I had no clue in. I studied as hard as I possibly could to prepare for the first exam and the score made me realize that it’s not for me. Can you guess what that score was? If you somehow guessed 13%, you are correct again. To make it worse, I didn’t have the worst score on that test. After that, I made the decision that I was done with computer science and I was transitioning to accounting.
By far one of the best decisions I had ever made. I don’t have to deal with some high level math that most likely I won’t need in the future. Of course, my brother wasn’t too happy about me switching majors since he loves computer science so much but at this point nobody else’s opinion matters other than my own. This is my first semester taking accounting classes and it’s not complicated at all. I wished that I listened to myself instead of going with what my family wanted. In the end, I’m trying to teach the reader that don’t get pressured into doing something you don’t to do but also don’t force yourself for others, follow your heart