Blue Teardrops

Mine is a derivative of chemical engineering.

My focus is to study how I can design biodegradable polymeric materials that can be used in medicine, and environmental applications. It's a really exciting field that holds a lot of promise for the future.

I'm just entering this field in my major this semester, so I can't really say it's helped my anxiety any. Time will tell. I know there will have to be a lot of teamwork, presentations, and oral communication. So, I'm really hoping it will help me.

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klytus

You are cool, Blue. I would send you a PM, if I could.

My major is Pure Mathematics. I love it.

While discussions are of eminent importance in the successful study of Mathematics, this academic field does not facilitate social interactions. Teamwork is paramount, in every aspect of modern life, and there is ample opportunity to practice it at a university, however, without using the opportunity, it won't have any (therapeutic) effects on any kind of anxiety.

Exposure (almost) always helps, though.

Blue Teardrops

Haha, thanks. PM's scare me, lol, sorry. I'm a big chicken.

You must be really smart to study Pure Math. I can do Applied math, but Pure Math, well...might as well stick a fork in my eye, lol. I'm not very good at all the theoretical stuff. I'm in my fifth year in college, and with my earlier major, I just went to class and went back to my dorm. Not much interaction. Now I think I'm going to be forced into interacting with people, and I hate it, honestly, but I'm hoping it will work. I'm taking a German class right now, too, and we are forced to interact with people every class period. I'm avoiding the anxiety meds and just letting things roll. I just hope I don't cause myself to have a nervous break down with all this exposure, lol.

Moonie

My major was psychology. I enjoyed it.. but it didn't really help with any anxiety issues and it didn't give me much insight about it (not that I chose Psychology for that reason..)

We had a couple presentations and group work in some of my classes, but most of them were just lectures.

klytus

And what about instant messengers? -- Online communication is probably amongst the least straining activities.

It really depends on the type of interaction which is required in the given situation, I suppose. Most topics will be of a professional nature, thence won't necessitate sharing more private information. You aren't even required to make friends. Since most - if not all - natural sciences are best learned in hindsight, it is not only an essential, it is a natural part of the process to fail, which makes making mistakes - and subsequently learning from them - important, and renders actual failure impossible. Simply put, there is no sense in not participating in discussions because of a fear of failure.

Du solltest durchaus überdenken, ob du PMs nicht doch zulassen möchtest. :P

Blue Teardrops

I almost chose psychology.

Blue Teardrops

Haha, Es tut mir Leid - Das verstehe ich nicht! Wie sagt man "I am only a beginner" auf Deutsch? Are you fluent in German?
Edit: I put what you said in a translator, now I got it. Haha.

Instant messaging also makes me nervous. I don't have as much time to think out my thoughts. I never IM.

As for professional communication, I am okay with that, even though it still makes me nervous for fear of sounding unintelligent. But it is the informal interactions that really scare me.

N04h

electronic engineering

Anomaly

Molecular Biology. I'll be doing plenty of labs, so I suppose it is, in a way.

Noca

Psychology and Sociology