<p>Well, I'm going to be a Biology major @ UCR. I am having second thoughts cuz I really don't find an interest in biology really. Don't ask me why I want to major in Biology in the first place cuz I don't even know. In high school, I thought I wanted to become a dentist but I'm not sure anymore. I am totally not a science & math person! Plus, I don't want to go to college for 8 years studying something I'm not interested in. I mean I'll give it a try my first quarter, but if I decide that Biology is not for me I'll change it. I just don't know what major to change it to. I don't want to be an undeclared major either. What should I do?! Anyone went through the same thing I did? How did you find what major you were really interested in? Tell me about your previous experiences. :)</p>
<p>Just look through all the majors offered at your school. Write down the ones that sound the most interesting to you, and then look at the courses you’ll need to take, and see if those sound interesting to you too.</p>
<p>My university offers over 250+ majors, and I’ve read details about almost every one, and I’ve considered over 5 or 6, but I’m sticking with the one I originally came in with, because the more I go into it, the more I like it.</p>
<p>You need to engage in a deep session of introspection. Here you can evaluate your strengths, weaknesses, and the things you love to do and enjoy, as well as the things you don’t like to do, etc.</p>
<p>Since I don’t think my personal experience would be all that helpful to you, I’ll just recommend MyRoad: <a href=“https://myroad.collegeboard.com/myroad/navigator.jsp[/url]”>https://myroad.collegeboard.com/myroad/navigator.jsp</a></p>
<p>If you took the PSAT, which you probably did, then I believe you have a free subscription to the site (and the personality/major quizzes on there). It might point you in a direction you didn’t consider before, but I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d already taken a few of these tests before.</p>
<p>I had this long thing typed out about my ‘experience’ but I’ll just say this:</p>
<p>If you hate biology, switch out as fast as possible. Also, being an undeclared major for just a semester while you take a few classes to find out what you like is not a negative thing at all.</p>
<p>Find something you don’t hate. Out of these majors that you don’t hate, pick the one that will give you the highest average salary as a job. Your love for that major will come when you study it more.</p>
<p>when school starts, you should be a regular visitor to the Career Center. Take tests, attend the workshops, go to the career fairs, etc. You don’t need to decide 1st quarter what you’re doing the rest of your life; and in fact many people end up switching majors & career plans by the end of sophomore year anyway. But you do need to be working on it regularly so that you don’t end up senior year wondering “what will I do with my life?” and then applying to law school like so many others who figure that puts it off for another 3 years.</p>
<p>Wait until the last minute to declare a major. Why don’t you want to be an undeclared major so badly? I’ve never heard of a stigma for that! And it’s far easier to get a broader idea of your major options if you’re not tied down to one vastly different major after another, plus you won’t have to deal with the paperwork of switching back and forth between 8 different fields. Do what I did: wait until your school requires you to declare a major (typically end of sophomore year or beginning of junior), and then make your decision.</p>
<p>I wanted to say one thing: as a new college student, you may not even know much about many fields! You really should sample various fields that you do not hate. And once you know more about what it’s like working with them, make a selection.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, I have nothing much to do, so if you want to PM me, I like helping people make these kinds of decisions – you might just want to sample random things as of now though. Good luck!</p>
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<p>Well, the one problem is half of college goes by without your knowing what you want to be doing with it, and one may regret that. I think the first semester to year is a good time to figure things out. That should be plenty, actually, if one is fairly aggressive. Don’t just attend classes you’re enrolled in – go to various ones and just see what it’s all about. Pore in on others’ textbooks. Be aggressive!!!</p>
<p>Haha if you’re not a Math/Science person and you don’t like Biology, why would you want to major in Bio and become a dentist?! No offense but if you’re not good at these subjects and have no passion for them, you probably won’t make it through undergrad, let alone dentist school! This is like someone who hates cooking declaring she wants to be a chef. :p</p>
<p>So anyway, no need to freak out because lots of people are undecided. 
Most freshmen I met were undeclared, and there’s really no rush unless you’re doing an intense major like Engineering (and if you’re not a math/sci person, don’t try that. )
What was your favorite subject in high school? What do you enjoy studying? What can you see yourself doing after college? We can’t really help you out with this since we don’t know you. </p>
<p>I applied Undecided and was debating between 2 majors. I chose the easier of the two because I thought the other one required too much effort, was very time-consuming, and I wanted to have fun and also get good grades. But I ended up switching to the harder major which I like a lot more. Even though it’s lots of work, I’m studying what I love so I don’t mind not getting easy A’s like in the other major.</p>