<p>How do everyone figure out their major? I will enter my first year in college without any major and I have no idea what to do. I took a lot of career test, but none of them kind of satifisy me. Also, I don't want to stay in CC more than two years because my parents would kick me out to the curbs. So, how do everone discover their major?</p>
<p>For me, my major choice 'hit me' all of a sudden, when I realized I actually enjoyed learning the material of a class and found it fun to talk about the subject without seeing it as a drag.</p>
<p>Stick to IGETC for your first year and your major will find you and you will find it, and you will fall in love and create little minors running around</p>
<p>It all depends on what you want to do with the rest of your life. Do you want to teach, become a politician, practice law, be a forensic analyst, act, film, etc?</p>
<p>Most community colleges offer carrier path courses for students who don't know where they want to go with their life. Look into that.</p>
<p>First of all, most often your major does not dictate your career (unless you wish to go into medicine or some field in science).</p>
<p>See your first semester as a chance to test the waters of classes that you find interesting. Your second semester is a chance to continue in whatever classes you find most interesting.</p>
<p>But I suggest that you start summer school, ASAP. This gives you a chance to find your major (I found mine in summer school) and will also give you a head start for your two years at CCC.</p>
<p>I was extremely depressed and I had a really awesome professor, first college class ever, who told us how he studied philosophy to give himself some inner peace, to find comfort in his own existence. I followed his path and found myself really enjoying philosophy. I dumped the history major path and am now completely in love with my major. Again, this was in summer school. Most CCC's offer the intro classes over summer school (psych 1, soc 1, anthro 101).</p>
<p>By the end of summer school, you will have a pretty good idea of what major you want and you can start shaping your future class schedules to follow IGETC and the courses listed on Welcome</a> to ASSIST</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>I agree with alansda. Do your general education first. It'll help if you decide to switch major later on. It will also give you a chance to explore different fields before you decide what subject you want to concentrate on.
General ed are mostly introductory courses.</p>
<p>I switched to economics because of Ron Paul and his constant talk about the monetary policy. I didn't switched immediately, though. I did my research before I decided that it was something I would enjoy studying; even on my off time.</p>
<p>Here's something that deals with economics that might spark an interest. The sub-prime mortgage crisis blues.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qWw7waSeM%5B/url%5D">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qWw7waSeM</a></p>
<p>DEFINITELY follow IGETC first. This was my first mistake in cc and I ended up spending 4 years there (worst experience ever). If you take care of your IGETC first you will save yourself a lot of time/money and won't be rushing to finish it at the end. I agree with alansda in that your major finds you, not the other way around. The IGETC covers a wide variety of subjects - math, science, english, arts/humanities, social sciences, etc. Whichever category you connect with best (in terms of not feeling like it is actual work, but enjoying learning about the subject), could be something you might want to consider majoring in.</p>