The life of the actuary

Well my intended major here at ISU happens to be something called actuarial sciences. This is apparently the hardest undergraduate major here, according to the department head of the actuarial sciences. It is a branch off of the mathematics department and involves a lot of high end mathematics and statistics. The ISU actuarial science program happens to be like the best in the country and one of the best in the world I think. I really had no clue what an actuary was or what it did or never even heard of it until I was talking to my guidance counselor in high school and she told me that since I was so good at math, that I should go and be an actuary. That night I went straight home and looked up a good amount about actuaries. I learned that they get paid a lot of money. The average salary for an actuary is about $84,810 a year. I then went to an ISU visit (because my dad went here) and talked to the people at the booth for actuaries and they gave me the email information for the department head. That night I went home and emailed the department head and he had a lot to say about actuaries and gave me many sights to look at, to this day I haven't looked at all of them yet. I think this major is a really good route for me because I really wanted to do something with numbers because I am better with them than I am with letters, but I didn't really want to teach. Everybody said I was good at tutoring people in math but I never felt like I was doing good enough for them because of the way I do my math. I have my own ways of doing things based off the way the teacher teaches it basically. So I decided to go this route and it is definitely looking like I'm going to stay with it for the long run at the moment.


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