Hello.
I’ll be attending college at a local university in Fall 2018, but as an undecided major (college freshman, by the way, in case, you want to know). I actually don’t know what to major in, since there are so many options to choose from and it’s frustrating. Or let’s say, I literally don’t know what to do in life. I know this may sound very overexaggerating to a lot of you, but I’m actually being honest. I think planning things like this are way too early, in my opinion. Some of the majors I’ve looked at, weren’t very interesting to me, while other majors are too competitive/difficult for me, since I wasn’t that great at the classes that fit in with that particular major. I’m not a very passionate person at all and I never did anything inside or outside of high school, other than attending classes and come back home all day, every day, with a very little to no social life. I’ve never thought as a young kid that I will be attending college this soon, but things happen eventually. I never could imagine this happening this early. Anyways, since I was an undecided major, I had a hard time choosing classes that I was interested in. At that moment, I was still trying to understand the graduation requirements as a whole. As of now, I’ve signed up for 14 credit hours (I thought it was a little low, but I ended up doing so). The classes I actually signed up for were:
Calculus I
Principles to Macroeconomics
Writing Techniques (remedial English Composition course, more into that later)
Beginning German I (I should have taken a science course as part of the gen ed requirements, instead of this one)
I was tired and anxious after 8-9 hours of orientation and signing up for classes went pretty messed up for me. The reason why I’m placed in the remedial English course, is because I’m not good at writing essays. My English placement exam was just an essay, instead of a reading/writing online test like Accuplacer. We had to read a prompt written by an author and then summarize/use quotes for the essay. I wrote exactly 4 pages, but I ended up getting an extremely low score, which I was surprised with (as you can see throughout this post, my grammar isn’t that perfect. I can tell this with the way I’m using my words and punctuation). Not because I wrote that many pages, but because I thought I did slightly better than the score I was given. I can’t retake the English placement exam, because I can only take it once. Strangely enough, my math score was higher than my English score, because I thought it would be the other way around. From my perspective, this is not very common among college freshmen. I would like to talk about more why this happened, but I guess this post is already too long.