<p>as the title states, How do you pick a major?</p>
<p>Survey your interests, take some intro classes you might be interested in (read the descriptions, check up on the professors), ask friends, look back on things you've done that you've loved (especially school work that never felt like work) and then just close your eyes and point blindly at a list. :P</p>
<p>... It's highly individual, in other words, and I'll be not many people find their majors the same ways. In a lot of cases, it's purely serendipitious: "Well, I met this girl in that one class..." or "That professor rocked!" or "I've always liked dinosaurs, so I should like history," or a good paper you got back, or all the other classes were full and you wouldn't be taking this one if you didn't NEED the credit, or you needed a GE credit in this other field, or...</p>
<p>Consider your personal strengths and interests and see how they interact with certain classes.</p>
<p>Pick classes that interest you, even pick one that you don't think you'll ever take. After completing them, decide you want to keep taking other classes in that department.</p>
<p>Or</p>
<p>As someone mentioned above, go by your passions and interest. You're commiting yourself to studying this subject that takes up 1/3 or more of your total credits. Can you see yourself doing a honors thesis on this subject? If not, then don't major in it. If so, then the major might be for you. I had a choice between Russian lit and history and when I thought if I could do a thesis on Russian lit, I decided that I'd focus better if I did something with history... that's my passion. No matter what I do, I always end up going back to history!</p>
<p>darts or dice work well</p>
<p>or ee-nee-meenie-miney-mo</p>
<p>:-P but like i like history and english and A&P, but not math so..... i could be an english teacher, but no $$, same w/ history teacher, so i guess a doctor i'll be!</p>
<p>Doesn't following money seem like a path followed by very few happy people?</p>
<p>true. i'd like to be respected.</p>
<p>I based it on if I was interested in what someone was talking about even if I hated them or they were boring. I hated my high school chem teacher. But I love chemistry. I only had an interest in it back then. Something told me to take the more advanced course in orgo and I loved it. So I base it on that. It is hard to keep my attention so if something does and does it well, I think it's a keeper.</p>
<p>indeed, i think your right.</p>
<p>To pick the major perfect for you, print out a list of the majors that your school offers. Then, with a pencil, go through and scratch off the stuff that you know you would never like or ever want to do. Then, you should have a couple of options left, and as said earlier, take intro classes or read up more about the subjects. Hope this helps you, b/c it definitely helped me!</p>
<p>take a large variety of classes when you get to school 1st and 2nd year.</p>
<p>Philosophy, Psychology, Biology, Government, Economics, Foreign Languages, English, Sociology, History, Anthropology, Philosophy etc etc etc</p>
<p>if you have some idea, take some classes in that area. It's about finding what you like. You want to major in something you enjoy.</p>
<p>my choosing a major involved a hat....</p>
<p>You could also try to turn your passion or hobby into a major/career.</p>
<p>I tried to turn my hobby into a career but then it turned out to not be so much fun anymore. so I branched out to something that uses the skills of my hobby sorta.</p>
<p>Which is....?</p>
<p>What is the one thing you enjoy doing most?</p>
<p>Take it and run with it.</p>
<p>Sometimes it just appears out of thin air. If you told me three years ago I would be planning on majoring in politics, I would have spit in your face.</p>
<p>Thankfully Thankfully Thankfully (not an accident),</p>
<p>Computer science became an extremely tempting career for me, as I have used computers for most of my life and had a lot of interest in it- everyone knew it too.</p>
<p>During my senior year of high school (aka last year) I got into a program that lets students get mentorships in whatever field they chose. I got into to the Star Tribune (major Minnesota newspaper) as an intern, following a experienced technician- everyone thought I would love it, but I HATED IT. The good thing is that there was still time to sign up for Community College (I planned on going to a 2-year Tech school and then maybe go for four) and I carried the love I had for history from high school to college- now I work with the honors coordinator, two history professors (one of which is a very cool guy, although he does not really approve of my choice of transfer schools) and a couple English professors.</p>
<p>Goes to show: You might make a choice without actually experiencing the lifestyle- I hated walking around all day fixing computers, yet I tend to find writing history papers relaxing.</p>
<p>What can I major in that I (at the very least) think will be interesting and not too difficult for me to study, and will lead to job prospects that I think are somewhat decent and not "starving artist-like" ?</p>
<p>Honestly, letting people on an online message board attempt to choose a career path for you is simply not a good idea. We don't know you, only you can determine what really makes you happy.</p>