I feel confused.

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<p>I am a sophomore in college and I am completely lost.</p>

<p>I came here last Fall as a Biology major. Before the first week of classes was up, I got scared and dropped all my courses relating to the Biology major. I had intended on changing my major to English or something like that, but never got around to it. I was a Biology major that wasn’t taking Biology. The next semester I started taking Chemistry, Statistics, and Math so that I could get back on track for this year [the intro Biology class is only in the Fall]. I was excited that I was finally taking classes relating to my major.</p>

<p>This Fall, I enrolled in Freshman Biology and Chemistry. I was a year behind, but I figured I’d just take summer classes. By the second week, I already wanted out again. I had Calculus and understood very little of it. [I get it now, but nevermind.] My Biology class was boring me to bits. Luckily, I still liked my Chemistry lab. And so, I again considered changing my major. Again, I thought about changing it to English/Creative writing; but I feared the life of a starving artist, people looking down on me [especially my boyfriend, father, and grandmother], and losing my dream of becoming a Geneticist. [I’ve wanted to be a Geneticist on and off since I was about 10.] I got really close to making the change until I watched Gattaca [the movie that made me want to be a Geneticist] and had an extensive conversation about lab coats. I was hooked again and no longer wished to be an English major. [I did, however, decide to possibly minor in Creative Writing.] Really, I also just hated the English curriculum here.</p>

<p>But now, I’ve gotten the grades back from my first exams and I have found that I am not as stellar at science and math as I was in high school. [I got A’s in school, here I’m not exactly there.] I have a serious problem with failure and this just isn’t working for me. I am again second-guessing my decision to major in Biology. My class is still boring and I am not succeeding. I have no idea what to do. I am considering study abroad next year, but if I’m too far behind or not doing well, I’m wary of leaving the country to study. [I’d really like to get out of here in 4 years, I don’t particularly like this place.]</p>

<p>Again, I am lost. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. [And if anything didn't make sense, just tell me.]</p>

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<p>I think that you need to think about a couple of things. First, what do you truly like? Better, which one do you like more. The one you like more will = better grades. That is the only real advice I give anyone who is picking their major. Don’t worry about jobs and all that. Really, there are few majors that lead directly to a job. </p>

<p>On a side note, intro science classes are often known as the “weed” out courses. There are usually a ton of students, many of them pre-meds, all competing with each other for the curve. So do you not like bio because you are not doing well, or because you just find it boring? That might be part of the problem</p>

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<p>You said you enjoyed your Chemistry class, have you considered majoring in that? I don’t know very much about genetics, but you may be able to get a chemistry related job in that field.</p>

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<p>They’re not very closely related.</p>

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<p>@conman: I know that the more I like asubject, the better my grades will be. But in high school, I loved science and did well in it; I hated English [you can only force someone to diagram a sentence so many times] and did well in it. I worry about jobs mostly because I come from a family that doesn’t really have money. I’m wanting to have a comfortable-ish lifestyle when I’m older anf be able to support my mother some when she no longer can. I found the Biology class a bit boring before the first exam. My friends who have taken the course all said that the class [especially with this particular instructor] is incredibly boring. Another problem I suppose is that in high school I could put almost zero effort towards a class and still do well. Here, I’m finding that I can’t do that as much and I’m having problems learning good study habits.</p>

<p>@Michael2010: I considered majoring in Chemistry, but I really only like the lab aspect. There isn’t much in the field of Chemistry that sparks my interest and my school doesn’t seem to offer that broad of a class offering in the subject either. [The same goes for many of the subjects I am interested in. Here, if you are not a Nursing, Engineering, Teaching, Music, or International Studies/Foreign Language major, it just doesn’t seem as though there is too much for you.]</p>