<p>Hello everyone, I am posting this thread because I would like to know how you chose your major, in terms of certain "inspiration", or perhaps maybe to secure future job. I am currently a sophmore in college, and am very undecided on what I want to do. I am interested in Molecular Genetics, but also in Digital Arts. I have always been into the arts all my life; but I just really got into genetics, while I was taking my general ed in life science this last semester. I don't know what to do anymore..They are both unreleated and require different lower division course work. My community college has a short certificate program in game art, in which I think is great; but then I would feel that I never got to study something "ind challenging, as I get from studying the sciences. However, I also consider the fact that it's not always about that..</p>
<p>Well, I liked science but hated labs (especially chemistry, I’m just too clumsy to handle dangerous substances in glass containers), so I went for math. </p>
<p>And digital art and molecular genetics are not unrelated. Think of all the computerized visual representations of protein foldings and the like. They’re very powerful tools for understanding how these protein bonds, structure themselves, form and function, and better visual representations through more artful digital imagery/animation is part of the process. I mean, every time NASA finds a new exoplanet, or paleonthologists find a new type of fossil, they get artists to draw what the planet or dinosaur may look like, to add to the press releases for the general public. And those pictures are what gets kids excited about science. So, your two interests I think have a very useful intersection if you ask me.</p>
<p>I picked English pretty early on as a “safe” major for me. I had this idea of being an editor at some point, so that tied in. I thought of other things as I went along, as most students do. I considered psychology but opted against it in part because I was turned off by the scientific study of the unquantifiable. I considered computers, but one class of BASIC fixed that. 
(I still like them and am kind of the computer support person for my department.) Towards the end, I suddenly thought of pharmacy, but it was a bit late to be changing then, anyway.</p>
<p>Odds are, you’ll have a bunch of ideas as you go through college. For what it’s worth, you can combine your interests–for instance, my interest in medicine but passion for editing and writing led me to be an editor of medical papers (articles and grants). </p>
<p>I think it’s important to think about what a job in the field will entail, too. I’m not a social, outgoing sort, so that helped me decide against fields that would involve dealing with people. On the other hand, if you like helping people, you wouldn’t want to work in a job where you were in a cubicle all day. So it’s not just about your academic interests–it’s also about you as a person.</p>