The 2018 Winter Olympics are upon us and are as exciting as ever. Whether it is Shaun White winning gold or an underdog taking the world by storm and shocking everyone. The Olympics bring together everyone in thei respective country to root for their favorite Olympians. They can also bring together a multitude of college majors and correlate them with the very sports everyone watches this winter. Consider this your insider's guide to this correlation.
1. Alpine Skiing — Psychology/Sociology
Alpine Skiing is very mental and takes a solid minded person to compete because one slip up doesn't mean that there is no chance at gold if it includes a nice recovery, yet if the skier gets down on themselves there is no shot at medaling. With Psychology/Sociology there is vast knowledge of the people and the brain and how to react and what needs to get done.
2. Biathlon — Pre-med
The sport/major is a long process, but worth it in the end, if you get a medal/graduate. Biathlon will get athletes in shape physically and med graduates will get people paid.
3. Bobsled — Education
It takes a whole group in order to come together to succeed because just one person can't win at bobsledding, and one person can't teach others everything they need to know in life.
4. Cross Country Skiing — Pre-law
Both include a rigorous process and there is a lot of endurance and training/studying needed in order to succeed. One must be fully committed to both if they want to be at the top and get the medal/get paid.
5. Curling — Math
Both are viewed as boring for most, but people who love it are die hard for it. People will commit to becoming better as well as commit to trying to discover the next best way to do either the sport or math calculation.
6. Figure Skating — Art
Both are all about the grace, beauty and elegance of the sport/major. It takes precision and the ability to impress others to succeed. In skating one must impress the judges and in art one must impress other to promote one to buy the piece.
7. Freestyle Skiing — Journalism
There is a trickery to it and one must be creative and push the boundaries in order to succeed
8. Ice Hockey — Business
Most people think they know all about it, but when you get really into it, it is a lot harder and more complex than what it seems. Business is very cutthroat and only the strong will survive, much like in hockey how there is a lot of physicalities and fighting and the strong will survive in hockey.
9. Luge — History
Both seem basic to someone who doesn't know about the sport/major and can also seem boring, yet there's a lot unknown to the vast majority of people. In luge, there is a need for precision, speed and technique that the public doesn't understand. Just like in history, many people either don't know about everything or think they know it, but actually don't.
10. Nordic Combined — Engineering
Both combine a multitude of aspects of the sport/major that get put into one to show off the skills needed to succeed. One must be advanced in many areas in order to be successful.
11. Short Track Speed Skating — Entrepreneurship
The group/industry is lead by one person/company who is trying to always stay one pace ahead of the competition. Meanwhile the people behind the leader are trying to figure out the perfect time to try and get past the leader and become the new leader.
12. Skeleton — Communications
Seems easy to major in communications just like it seems somewhat easy to just jump on a sled and go through a track, but there is a lot that must occur in order to succeed with the run/career.
13. Ski Jump — Design
There is a need to be very precise and even one slip up could ruin the jump/project. There is a very exact process in ski jump that even the smallest mix up could result in going from a gold medal to not medaling at all, just like in design where one mix up could prove to be disastrous.
14. Snowboard Halfpipe — Computer Science
Everything in the run/major is specifically mapped out and planned and must go exactly according to plan in order to succeed
15. Speed Skating — Kinesiology
Fast paced sport/industry where there is always the want to get better and faster. With speed skating there is the need to be faster than the competition in order to succeed and win a medal. With kinesiology there is a need for getting athletes healthier faster in order for them to compete in their sport and the trainers who do this the fastest are viewed as the most successful.