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math students are usually pretty intense, but i think it would be unfair to lump them in with the rest of the stem majors. way lower proportion of "utilitymaxxing" chuds because pure math is fucking useless for the century you're developing it in (usually (at this point in history anyway)). on the other hand, i'd add philosophy to the skip list. lot of debate perverts and analytical philosophy wankery at the upper levels. taking intro philosophy courses is very fun though. you are correct about physics being a pretty chuddy/liberal program usually. although the grad students are a mix of interesting weirdos and future war criminals.

the pre-med students are always annoying

source: math and physics bachelors, most of a philosophy minor, most of a physics phd

Anthropology. They're a bunch of weirdos and I love them. They lean anarchist politically in my experience

Environmental Science, Ecology, and Freshwater Science are all pretty neat.

my coworker was getting her masters in anthropology and she was really chill and really passionate about her field

but anthropology majors have the worst unemployment of like any other degree so i dont recommend it

she took like 2 extra semesters at the end of her degree and got a second masters in library science and is a librarian now because anthropology no job

I did environmental science and had no regret. You intersect with a lot of multidisciplinary sciences, chemistry, biology, physics, applied math, and the one unifying theme is that people generally like outdoor activities like hiking, cycling, climbing, camping, etc.

Physics people are nothing like those other ones if you avoid the "top tier" universities. Physics people are usually very chill nerds who smoke lots of weed and tend to be deeply interested in the subject for itself not for career reasons (outside top tier - I mean I assume I went to a mid-low tier at best uni lol).

sociology. easy enough to minor in for most majors. wouldn't necessarily major in it unless you pair it with something like statistics.

Ecology. In theory, the federal government still must enforce the law, so the clean air act, environmental protection act, and endangered species act means they provide funding for environmental scientists to collect data on and participate in protecting the environment. Not sure if you can find a more rewarding and less damaging job. Plus all the ecology people I know from work are the right kind of folk

Microbiology was pretty chill grad. Though mine was a special masters based more on theory. But my professors let me represent my thesis when I was straggling with it.

Honestly really sad that I can't do more of it because of my disabilities and capitalism. But everyone was always surprised about my way of thinking and coming up with sound waves affecting biofilms.

Forestry and/or Agroecology in my experience.

I was gonna say something like "no college at all" but most of my coworkers suck so nvm

I'm in Europe, but maybe social work? I met some really cool people who studied that. In my experience, they tend to all be left leaning and have really impressive social skills, though I know there are also some hardcore libs who really bought into the ideology.

If you want real marxists, there are some in geography. It's because of the big picture view, that let's you see contradictions. And people like David Harvey taught some of the field to read Marx.

I think there are annoying people everywhere and yes, some fields have more than others, but there are also cool people everywhere. Just find them and stick to them (wish I had followed that advice more myself). If you find just two friends (and have the means), you can have fun studying whatever your want.

Look for international students from countries outside the imperial core. They have less propaganda to unlearn and have material incentive to be anti imperialist. Some might be from rich comprador families, but even then, they are quicker to move left, then white libs.

NOT education/teaching, classmates are the worst pit of reactionaries and radlibs posing as progressive ive ever seen in my life

why don't you pick something yourself based on your innate interests

Gonna say, art? I dated an art major who had a minor in law and justice, she loved art but was very lib.