Choosing a Uni course

[chess]

Okay, it's about time I got this down in a coherant fashion and asked for help...

The choices are: Compsci, Maths, Physics, or some combination.

Compsci:
Pros: I know I'd be good at it. I know that compsci stuff excites me. I know I'd like all of it, because I can understand what all of the 'course content' bits mean, or at least most of them. If I was going to say which course I was certain I'd enjoy, it'd be this one; probably it'd be the one I'd enjoy most.
Cons: It doesn't feel like a 'proper' subject. It entails spending lots of time at a computer, which I do too much of anyway, and it really wouldn't be good for me to be doing computery stuff all day and then spod all night too. Same problem if I become a computer programmer or summat - would have to find something else to do in free time, 'cos computer use all the time is not good. Also afraid that compsci courses will attract more 'normal' people than Physics/Maths courses, so I won't like as many of the ppl I'm taking the course with.

Physics:
Pros: I've always been drawn to the subject of Physics, for one reason or another - although mainly the electronics side of things, and computer simulation. I'm pretty sure I'd be up to it, really. It's a 'real subject'. Quite a bit of it is off the computer, so I wouldn't have to give up much computer time for it - although the areas I'm most interested in are the most computer-oriented ones, naturally.
Cons: I've become quite disillusioned by Physics throughout secondary school, although it may just be boredom through an underchallenging syllabus and way too much repetition. But I don't really know what degree-level Physics entails, and people have been scary at me about visualisation stuff or summat which I think I'm pants at. And I'm just generally not so sure I'm extremely interested in it, any more. I couldn't guarantee to myself that I'd enjoy the course.

Maths:
Pros: I wouldn't get bored through underwork :-) plus I rather like A-level maths, better than A-level Physics - but that could just be because I'm doing Further Maths so we're doing Maths faster, so I don't get bored through underwork. And there's not a chance of having to do any practical stuff.
Cons: I'm not really sure I'm good enough. I'm pretty certain that I'm not good enough to be a research mathematician, and I kinda want an academic career, and so I don't know what I'd do with a maths degree, really.

Can anyone help?

Comments

[stipe.livejournal.com]

My personal opinion is against math, having done three years of it now. It will depend on the program, I expect, but while I got to take a few courses that were interesting (Algebra, Graph Theory) I also was required to take courses that were not interesting at all (two stats courses, lots of Calculus).

I think I'm a person that "likes" math. I like reading interesting books on math, math was pretty cool in highschool. I don't like math enough to enjoy university level math, however.

On the other hand, if you like math a lot more than I do, you might like it a lot. Incidentally, I ended up in math because the computer science program here is part of the math faculty, and that's what I was aiming for. But I would've had to take even more math courses to finish a four year C.S. degree, so I'm doing a three-year math one.

[marble.livejournal.com]

Depending on the CS degree in question you may find that it's not all sitting at a computer and hacking.
Mine certainly involved a great deal of non-programming stuff. (eg. Analysis of algorithms)

[naath.livejournal.com]

now the way I see it uni phys is not like Alevel phys (I hope so, I have decided that I don't like phys.)

I may still decide to change to just math (I may even try to do math/compsci if I go to cam.)