<p>Hello everyone, as my title has stated, I hate my major (History)...with a passion. It was something I use to really enjoy but now I wake up every single day angry with my decision. I know that I am not meant to be a history major anymore. The problem is that I am a senior and plan on graduating at the end of next fall with only 4 more classes to go. </p>
<p>Even with graduation right around the corner, I find myself with no motivation to do the work in some of the most crucial history classes. I already have a fail on one of my more important assignments of the semester but I am in the midst of having some personal conversations with my adviser/professor to see if they can help me. I feel like I go on a rant every other day about how unhappy I am with school. I have skipped class a few times even on days where I have done the work. With all of the reading, research and writing I find it more time consuming than I can handle and constantly burnt out (I do have a part time job also). I'm not a terrible student, nor am I an overachiever with a 3.2 GPA. I plan to stick with it so I will have a degree, but these past few weeks have been a struggle for me.</p>
<p>This sounds sort of like me. I was an overachiever in high school and am now a freshman in college in my 2nd semester. I was an overachiever first semester but hte classes this semester I hate. I’m not in my major classes yet though. I just can’t wait until I get a job because I was to work for a sports team or ESPN or such with a law degree. My advice is to go ahead and finish out those few classes you have left because you’re so close to being done. Then you can go back to school and work towards maybe a minor or even another major then you’ll have a double major. Just sit down for a few weeks and think about what you want to do in life and what your goals are and go from there. While you’re doing that try to sweat out these next 6 months and at least get the degree. You can ALWAYS go back to school. My neighbor is a 6th year senior. It happens.</p>
<p>Just remind yourself how much money you (or your parents) have spent on these classes. That should make you take the situation more seriously (unless you’re really rich). Or just keep telling yourself that you don’t have much longer to go, and think about the fact that the past three years of your life have been leading up to this point.</p>
<p>of course there’s lots of people that say they hate their degree, just like there’s lots of people that say they’re depressed. However, its only a small sub-set of those people that feel as conflicted about it as the OP seems to be, or are actually truly clinically depressed.
In both of the more extreme cases the resolution to their problem is not simply a matter of “sucking it up”.</p>