For normal 18 year olds, sure. But CMU isn’t for normal people. LOL.
i don’t care what kind of screaming nerd you are, it doesn’t make sense that an incoming freshman would be familiar with all of the potential areas of study, and have a reason to know what their aptitude towards each one would be.
Undergraduates All undergraduates apply and are admitted to the university as a whole. Stanford believes strongly in the benefits of a broad-based education, so students are encouraged to sample widely from the abundant array of course offerings, and are not required to declare a major until the beginning of junior year. Please visit undergraduate admissions for information on procedures and requirements. Keep in mind, however, that before you declare an engineering major you'll need to have taken substantial amounts of mathematics, science, and fundamental engineering coursework. It's also a good idea to take a freshman seminar, to get a feel for what hands-on engineering work is like. For more information, please visit the prospective undergraduates pages.
this paragraph sort of embodies what i said and it made me LOL:
This is terrifying. I have ~54% no idea what I want to with my life. Last week, I pretended I was a mechanical engineer, and it was pretty fun, but then I realized I didn’t actually want to engineer things forever. I was course 7 and 18 for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like, “yo, Shannon, math is hard” and was like “whoa, you are definitely right” and promptly retreated from uber-1337 18.022 to the nice, cozy mathiness of 18.02. Currently, I’m telling people that I’m course 5, and I’m kind of liking it. It’s like dress up. Only… with… your life. And this is where you come in. Decide my fate! Vote what major Shannon should choose next week when she meets with her advisor