<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I'm a senior getting ready to choose my college, but I'm not really sure what I want to major in yet. Does anyone know of some good interest profilers or something else that might help me narrow my choices down?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Do you like Math or Science?
Writing?
History/Art?</p>
<p>I liked math up until this year. I’m doing well in calc, but I’m no longer enjoying it. History’s pretty cool. I’m not a big fan of science. Art’s not really my thing. I don’t think that I overly enjoy writing.</p>
<p>Well, that’s a mix that pretty much eliminates those possibilities. Did you find any academic activity during your high school years that really motivated you, provided you with hours of pleasure during which you lost track of time? Did you have a teacher who made one subject something you wanted to do a lot of? I don’t think it’s at all unusual for people to go to college (esp. males, in my experience) who don’t find a passion until they go to college.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the math hiccup this year might be just that, a hiccup. Maybe the teacher and you just didn’t hit it off. Many people like math until they get to calc, but is there any chance that there was something about the calc course that could have turned you off to learning calc–and not the calc itself?</p>
<p>When you go to college you’ll spend the first couple years taking seemingly useless courses that you’ve had in high school, but some of them will appeal to you in ways they never did in high school. College subjects and teaching are just plain different in college. That busy work will mostly disappear. Instead of knowing that some of the people in the class don’t give a hoot about being in college but still need to be educated, college professors won’t lose any sleep if you don’t like their course material or school in general; they won’t try to speak more slowly so that the lethargic students can follow them. You either keep up or you don’t, a pedagogical attitude you might find refreshing in at least some college courses. So go to college with an open mind and get to know your professors, and you likely will find a discipline which you enjoy.</p>
<p>Oddly enough, I somehow found studying for the math section of the SAT enjoyable, but I think I only liked it because it was easy and I could tease my friends about how easy it is :p</p>
<p>My calc teacher this year was my pre-calc teacher from last year, and I did just fine there. It’s possible that it’s a hiccup.</p>
<p>AP Psychology was a fun class, but that’s only because we never got homework and did a lot of fun activities in class, plus the teacher was hilarious.</p>
<p>I took several business classes and I got five Microsoft Office Specialist Certifications, but think that I only enjoyed getting them because I’m goal oriented and I have something to show for my efforts.</p>
<p>I like your last paragraph, Jkeil. I can’t explain how, but it helps.</p>