Im definitely interested in chemistry, but I fear once I get into more advanced chemistry I won’t like it as much. I think a bachelors in chemistry wouldn’t take me anywhere and i would either have to pressure a graduate degree or medical school. My parents think i should consider chemical engineering but I’m not that good at math so i think its a solid no. Political science seems like a interesting, cool major but I don’t know if i want to go into politics. I did a project on urban planning and it was actually pretty fun but i don’t know what urban planners do in the real world. Im currently an editor on my high school newspaper and i really enjoy that but majoring in journalism seems limiting. So basically chemistry, chemical engineering, political science, urban planning, or journalism? how do i decide what to do?
You don’t have to go into politics to major in political science. People do all kinds of things with that major.
If you don’t know what urban planners do in the real world, you can investigate using the Internet or asking an urban planner. But note that urban planning usually isn’t an undergraduate major - it’s usually a master’s degree. Sometimes urban studies is an undergraduate major.
The best way to choose a major is to take a class or two in 1-3 of the majors in which you are interested in your freshman year of college. See which one interests you the most and which one you think you might want to stick with.
There’s always the possibility that you won’t like the upper-level classes in a field, but there’s no way to know that in advance - you just have to go with it. That’s part of the process - at some point, you have to pull the trigger and make a decision. It doesn’t mean that all of your other interests fall away and become less important; it simply means that you’ve selected one to focus on for this 4-year period of your life. It doesn’t even have to determine your post-college career - that’s more determined by what you do in college, e.g. internships, part-time jobs, study abroad, summer experiences, research, etc.