From: HeroicGammaRay | #067
walrus: i'm going to be one in a few months. my areas of interest are still not completely determined - right now i'm thinking i want to go into analysis but i fully expect that to change once i start the program and interact more with the faculty. i could never really get into cs because of all the coding busywork in the intro courses; i hate having lots of small, annoying things to do. i'm sure it gets more interesting once you're past the intro-level stuff, but yeah.
I'll probably end up in algebra when it's all said and done and CS theory is more related to that than to anything else. Coding busywork is a pain in the ass but I'm pretty much done with that after this year.
Would you want to purely function as a researcher/professor after you get your degree? Do you think that math as a field is largely closed to groundbreaking new discoveries? My motivation for also exploring CS was the greater variety of job options and the relative newness of the field compared to math.
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