<p>Okay, I'm going to college this fall. It seems like a lot of people know what they're going to major in or have an area of interest. I never liked anything I studied in hs although I got good grades. I don't have any interest of passion for a particular subject...Does anyone feel the same way? Will I eventually find a major I will love and stick with it?</p>
<p>I'm thinking psychology now 'cause it seems interesting, but undecided for now.</p>
<p>This is perfectly fine. </p>
<p>Just take classes in things you might be interested in and go from there.</p>
<p>You really don’t need to pick your major before you go to college. In fact, you should not. Most of the people on CC who have their major picked before they go to college are, by and large, making a huge mistake. </p>
<p>Note, you may not find a major you love, however, the odds that you will find something you enjoy and finish are probably better if you don’t know what you’re doing before you get into college.</p>
<p>most people change their major at least once, so you are not alone.</p>
<p>make sure you take a wide variety of classes so you can test out lots of subjects, particularly subjects that weren’t available to you in HS.</p>
<p>definitely everyting they said. Thats one of the dumbest things to do is to go to college decided on a major (especially a science major) since they overload you with alot of hard classes in one semester</p>
<p>Don’t listen to people who say things like, “Just take classes and find one you love.” Unless you actively go out and search for your passion and interests, it won’t just land on your lap one day. If it does, congrats, but more often than not, you’ll end up wasting a lot of time just aimlessly wandering through life.</p>
<p>Get out and make some connections. Talk to your professors about what their subject matter entails and see if it catches your interest. But don’t just sit there and wait for someone to give it to you.</p>
<p>I’d recommend not just going to college and figuring it out there. </p>
<p>Take a few community college classes, work, try to get internships (or job shadowing) and continue to research. Spending 10-50k a year to figure out what you want to do doesn’t work.</p>
<p>You could just be like me and go to an undergrad business school.</p>
<p>I agree on taking a few community college classes. Maybe in the summer.</p>
<p>At the moment, if I could start over, I would have gone to my local community college for the first two years and then transfer to another college for my last two years. I didn’t have a definite passion and experimented with so many different introductory courses for 5 or 6 different majors, which basically screwed my cumulative GPA.</p>
<p>Don’t expect passion to come. It may not, and that’s not a problem.</p>
<p>I would suggest majoring in something marketable but at least somewhat enjoyable unless you have a strong desire to learn more about a particular topic.</p>
<p>Yes, it is a problem. Life’s about more than just paying bills. </p>
<p>Don’t waste thousands of dollars first and then figure it out later. Take time off and explore to get a better idea, then look into schools. I say this as someone who went to school undecided and 2 semesters later still doesn’t know. Your interests may not fall into an academic field, and even if they do, your school may not offer the major.</p>
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<p>It’s not a problem. And life is more than paying bills. No kidding.</p>
<p>That doesn’t mean that you can’t do something marketable that you also happen to enjoy, even if not as much as something else. One’s satisfaction may not even come from a career – it may come from a hobby, from friendships, from marriage, from kids (i.e. marriage), from some religious life, from political involvement, from volunteering.</p>
<p>None of those have anything to do with major.</p>
<p>Study something that you like. If you have no real preference, make it marketable too. Why add a complication by studying something obscure, unless you prefer it in a significant way?</p>
<p>I had two friends who went to college knowing what they wanted to study. They got there, didn’t feel their major, and left after a year. If you can afford to go to a 4 year school, go for a year, take different classes, and if nothing clicks,leave. One of my buddies took a semester off, lived near campus, and just worked. It refreshed him, he was able to still see all his friends from school, and he was able to figure out what he wanted to do. Don’t stay in school if you don’t enjoy your field. Get a job, intern, go to a cc (a lot cheaper and you can keep your insurance) if school doesn’t interest you. It’s not worth the money to float around trying to figure things out. Take a year off. There shouldn’t be so much pressure to jump right into college if you aren’t sure about what you want to do. If you can afford to go, go. If it doesn’t fit, you can take some time off.</p>
<p>Well, im gonna do pre-med. i can major in whatever i want so i was just wondering.</p>
<p>don’t make this into some kind of big soul-searching marathon thing. Don’t balloon everything until it becomes too big to think about. </p>
<p>Just start from square 1. What is your passion? What do you like to study? If that doesn’t work, think about what you want to do after college. What kind of job would you like doing that makes a contribution to society? Helping sick people? Working in alternative energy?</p>
<p>The point is this: don’t waste time and money gong to college if you don’t know your interests. There are other, more effective ways to accomplish this. If you still don’t know, then major in something that is flexible and allows you to work in a variety of fields.</p>
<p>To clarify, I’m sure I want to be a doctor. Which kind, I don’t know. I just don’t know what to major in, and I don’t want to major in something like biology, chem, or other “typical” pre-med majors b/c this is my last opportunity to learn something before med school where it’s just biochem, biology, etc…Many medical students look back and wish they majored in something they were interested in rather than the typical pre-med majors.</p>
<p>you have to take tons of science classes to get into med school…</p>
<p>yeah those are the pre-med prerequisites.</p>
<p>What about philosophy?</p>