I’d be curious for thoughts on when you should take more courses. The main situations that came to mind for me were: (i) you’re learning something you might actually use (e.g. programming) or (ii) you want to open up extra grad school options (e.g. taking extra math courses to open up economics).
Thanks! My initial guess is those are situations when it’s good to take specific / high-workload classes—but I’m not sure they’re always situations when it’s good to take more classes (since people can sometimes take those kinds of classes as parts of meeting their graduation requirements).
Thanks for the article, I’ve added a link to our page:
https://80000hours.org/articles/advice-for-undergraduates/
I’d be curious for thoughts on when you should take more courses. The main situations that came to mind for me were: (i) you’re learning something you might actually use (e.g. programming) or (ii) you want to open up extra grad school options (e.g. taking extra math courses to open up economics).
Thanks! My initial guess is those are situations when it’s good to take specific / high-workload classes—but I’m not sure they’re always situations when it’s good to take more classes (since people can sometimes take those kinds of classes as parts of meeting their graduation requirements).