<p>Thanks bopper
I’ll try to answer some of them</p>
<p>I talked to my professor about my grades and he suggested that I retake it next year when it’s available. The problem here is not because I don’t study enough. It’s because I am not interested in what I’m studying. I made a wrong choice.</p>
<p>I already know what I want to learn. I’m going to go and see if I can switch to that. I’m going to talk to people at school to get more info on that. That “activity” that I spend too much time on is the thing that I want to learn. I’ve been downloading materials from the internet to learn those things (like MIT OpenCourseWare). I must admit, that did cause me to lose focus on my current major.</p>
<p>How will I make sure that I’ll like the major I’m trying to switch to? Well, I’ve been reading about it. And it is the “activity” that I’ve been busy with. So, I’m 100% sure that I will like it.</p>
<p>Reason I can’t continue with my current major? That will be because I’m not interested in it anymore. It’s becoming a chore and a burden.</p>
<p>Courses I could transfer? There are some courses (3-4 I think) that could be reused.</p>
<p>How will this affect my graduation date? It’s majorly going to affect my graduation date. It’ll delay it by 2 years (maybe more?). </p>
<p>Job opportunities? Well, both majors have good job opportunities. One of the reason I’m changing majors is because I don’t want my career to be something that I don’t want for the rest of my life.</p>
<p>I hope I answered some of your questions.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Also, you may have enough credits in your current major to turn it into a minor, so not all is lost… you’d have one good major and one good minor. That can’t be bad. :)</p>
<p>I agree with bopper: if you show your parents have you have tested your new major, that you know you like it and can do a good job at it, that you’ve talked with your professors about it, they’ll see it’s a well-thought out, mature, professional choice.</p>
<p>Talk to your parents ASAP. Talk to your school advisor ASAP.</p>
<p>You do need to consider your new major very carefully. Make sure it is the right one for you. Don’t stay in your current major if you are sure it isn’t what you want to do. But don’t make switching majors a habit.</p>
<p>Your professional career has to be in something you enjoy. Even if it is something you enjoy, there will be moments when it becomes tedious. If it isn’t something you enjoy now, imagine the h**l it would be to do it for 30 plus years. If you enjoy what you are doing you have the best chance to be successful in your profession.</p>
<p>As far as majors go, sometimes, it comes down to just getting that degree. That’s where I have been with some of my kids. It’s great when parents can advise majors for very good reasons, like job opportunities, but sometimes just getting out in 4 years is all a kid can do.</p>
<p>My husband’s family tried to push engineering on two of their kids, who tried to comply, but ended up dropping out. THey could have very likely gotten through college with another less math intensive major, but that was not given to them as an options. I just want mine out in 4 years. ANother term MAYBE but with them paying a good deal of it, if they are that close to a more more job friendly major, but usually if that 's the case, one can get jobs in such fields my listing the courses taken in it and going to a local school post undergrad to get the reset of the courses that a major would require.</p>
<p>You have a lot of things to discuss with your parents. It’s not so much the wrong major that is going to be the issue but the immediate fact that you are at risk in failing a course with all of the attendant penalities that could go with it.</p>
<p>Unless your parents are willing to pay for another 2 years or more, which I can tell you outright, I would not be likely to do, you had better have an alternate major that you can do and get out. You better have that as something that you can do, because your parents may well just want you to graduate with your major being ANY major that can get you out with a degree in a set amount of time. I told my kids theyw were majoring in graduating by a certain date. I didn’t care if they were majoring in basket weaving or navel contemplation as long as they got that diploma by then. Sure, I would have prefererred that they had been able to get through a major in that time they loved, or that led to some good job possibilities, but paying for another year of college just was not in the financial books for us. And after failing a course and not able to get through a first major, I would not be so inclined to invest more time into another. Get out and find a job and get the courses you want on your dime in the fields of interest you have is the way I look at it, with a bit of stretch under certain circumstances for maybe another term of school.</p>