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<li><p>My experience maybe completely out of date, of course. My assigned academic advisor was a great guy who taught me a lot about quality Chinese food but who didn’t have a clue about the stuff I was interested in. In the spring, I went to a famous professor whose office hours I had haunted a bit, and asked him to be my advisor. He said “sure”. The paperwork was easy. Later, when I formally declared my major – which I delayed because of this issue – I changed advisors again, because there was a specific person assigned to advise all of the people in that particular major in my residential college. He was a great guy, too, but had interests that were very different from mine.</p></li>
<li><p>I chose my (your) college specifically because it had the greatest English department in the world, and I assumed that I would be an English major. When I got there and found my sea-legs, however, I learned that there was kind of a civil war going on within the English department, and that the side I liked best was in the minority there. It had its “fort” in other departments, mainly the graduate-only Comp Lit department. So I wound up as a Literature major, because the Lit major program had enough flexibility to let me do what I wanted, and about half the majors were people like me who were looking for an undergraduate Comp Lit major. (There was a different undergraduate Comp Lit major that had nothing to do with the Comp Lit department, but that’s another story.)</p></li>
<li><p>Obviously none of this was practical. I also took some economics courses and got a business-related internship through the college. I wound up going straight to law school, but I had several offers to work on Wall St. if I hadn’t done that. It was a recession then, too. You don’t necessarily need a major that screams “Career!” if you do a little bit to position yourself.</p></li>
<li><p>My wife has had a really zig-zaggy career path that has led to awesome jobs and significant power/responsibility. She double-majored in Psychology and American Studies, and her first job out of college (her only job ever in the for-profit private sector) was selling wholesale jewelry. You really ought to trust yourself, your abilities, and your education.</p></li>
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