I’m 16 and I recently got accepted into Michigan State University. I really want to go there, but I’m still indecisive and don’t want to end up wasting money. I chose their Media and Information major first, but I get a lot of people saying that it would be a useless major. I really want a creative career because I love creativity and I love doing very detail oriented work, but I’m afraid that any creative career path I choose won’t be stable and I would be unsure of which career to pick anyways. The only real passion/interest I have right now is film/film editing and just. Creating things lol. I find it fun and enjoyable to sit there and edit things together to my liking. But again, its the stability and that the degree would be useless. I was gonna be like “hey I like math, maybe I should just go into computer science and become a programmer that programs games and stuff” (is that a thing?) and maybe keep film as a hobby- maybe making YouTube vids on it. Then there’s the option of waiting a year or so, then going. Idk. I really want a degree because ya know. Money, etc. Higher education seems to have more pros than cons to it.
My friend is gonna major in communication at MSU- that seems pretty brave but he’s more confident and knows what he wants to do, meanwhile I’m lost xD
Sorry it became a ramble oops
Media and information is not a useless major. The people who are telling you it’s useless - do they work in the field? Do they hire college graduates? Do they do any research - even basic Internet research - on what employment rates look like in that field?
Likely they are simply basing it off some misguided notion that certain types of majors are the only ones worth doing.
Your job prospects are going to be based on skills and experiences. Theoretically speaking, you could major in film, learn to code and spend a summer at a software company, and become a software engineer. Or, more relatedly, you could major in film and learn to code, then end up working at a company that makes cinematics for video games or animated children’s television shows or something. You could end up in marketing for a media company. Or you could major in media and information and end up doing something completely unrelated, I don’t know.
Develop in-demand skills, and do internships.
Yes, this is absolutely a thing. I work in video games at a major company, although not as a developer, and we hire tons of people to come in and code games. If you are interested in that, that is definitely something you need to do an internship in to break into.
Thank you! I really needed that actually