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Just suck it up and do it. I know it sucks, but you don't have a choice.
Just to establish some quantitative guidelines, what do you mean by "struggling"...anything that's not an A+? Or are you talking more like "having trouble keeping passing grades"...also what's your current GPA/what will it be after this semester/year if this performance stays the same?
Struggling like C+/B- range, so not failing but not doing well either. I'm at a little over 3.5 right now, and after this semester will be between 3.5-3.55.
If you can stay at 3.5 or so, you will be fine. Like others have said...the other classes may be bullshit, but take interest in those subjects anyway. Finance is the easy part...widening your interest and general knowledge level is really why you're there.
Don't be one of those boring finance types who thinks all those subjective classes have no value. They provide you with some interesting knowledge and allow you to broaden your perspective, plus make you more interesting and well-informed in general. Although I chose to enter ib and really enjoy my work, my non-finance classes covered some of the most interesting things I'll ever learn about - there are usually so many options to fill those requirements that you should be able to find something genuinely interesting to you (at the least, something to round you out a bit and likely make you a more informed, interesting person). At the very least if you're adamant about taking "relevant" classes only try and find classes on things like economic history, which are usually offered and generally fulfil some core requirements.
I'm a history major that works on finance/accounting on the side, so maybe I can help you out with some of your issues. What about subjective courses/exams trips you up? I find I'm the opposite way, I can ace any subjective exam but struggle with multiple choice.
I think what challenges me the most is having to jump to a specific conclusion from certain information. In the technical courses, it's pretty easy to find a derivative/integral, or run through a DCF given the specific parameters.
But then when I take a history or a government class, I'll get a question like: "Because ABC did this in 1758, how did that change the perception of ABC?". A lot of it comes from the idea of "choose the best answer". I'm good at arguing/backing up my stances and so I automatically come up with 3 or 4 possible and reasonable answers out of the 5 choices I was given. That's why I'm bad at multiple choice for those classes, subjective essays/open response I can do well.
Okay, so for a prompt like that you're actually answering four separate questions.
1) What was the perception of ABC prior to 1758? 2) What did ABC do in 1758? 3) What was the perception of ABC after 1758? 4) Why did 2) cause 1) to become 3)?
The fourth question is going to be what you want to focus on to separate your answer from others in the class. 1-3 can be easily answered by regurgitating dates and summarizing the background history of the prompt. The fourth is where you can inject your own opinion and analysis which should be derived from supporting textual documents, primary source quotes or other evidence you feel supports your thesis. As long as you have a solid argument and can cite your sources you can get away with an answer that is different than what your teacher was looking for, but you have to spend an equal, if not greater, amount of time proving other possible conclusions wrong.
I recently wrote a thesis paper for a course that was worth 25% of the grade, and I spent the majority of the paper disproving conclusions different from what I thought. You should try to format your answer so that by the time you're done arguing against other conclusions your thesis should start to stand out as the obvious answer.
Another tip to help you catch all the points possible is to always always always include specific dates when you mention an event, important documents, names of people, etc.
Don't focus on having the objectively right answer, focus on having the answer your professor expects.
Actually, I'd apply a similar idea to relationships in general.
Coming from an English major, this is the best collegiate advice you'll ever receive.
Those classes are extremely valuable. You can pick up the technical details at work but you won't make time to read history or literature once you start ft.
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