<p>I thought I’d major in history and lit when I went to college. After getting stuck in a yearlong course reading Bentham and Locke and Nietsche and other political theorists I realized I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life reading things I found boring. The only course I’d really enjoyed freshman year was a freshman seminar on prints and printmaking. So I majored in Visual and Environmental studies - a catchall major that included art, film, and architectural history. I really enjoy having a physical object that is the result of my labors, but I also thoroughly enjoyed all my architectural history courses. </p>
<p>I don’t think you have to figure out what you are going to do when you grow up now. I think you can pick a major, then look for interesting summer work and see where it leads you. Maybe you’d like getting involved in setting health policy. Maybe you’d like bioengineering - take a course and find out!</p>
<p>My freshman adviser was useless too, but you can also just go to the office hours of a professor you like and pick their brains.</p>