<p>I'm a rising senior trying to decide what I want to do with my life. I've narrowed down my list of potential majors to this:</p>
<p>Physics (maybe Astrophysics or Biophysics)
Film
Aerospace Engineering
Music
Neuroscience </p>
<p>I may go Pre-Med since I may satisfy most of the requirements within my major depending on what I ultimately choose. I also don't want to rule out going to law school, but from what I understand it doesn't matter too much what your major is as long as you have a decent GPA and LSAT score. Whatever I do, I would love to minor in film or music if that is at all possible. My main problem is that I would like to keep most of these options open when I graduate since I really am interested in all of them. I will obviously have to shorten this list, which is what I need help with. I need something that will keep my options open so I can sort of experiment with a few and see what I really want to do while maintaining a central focus on one of the above. I know I have a lot of interests and I really need to make up my mind, but I would really appreciate any advise or insight from anyone who has been/is in a similar situation.</p>
<p>I was in your same situation a few years ago, trying to decide on some quirky blend of engineering, physics, journalism, sociology, or history. Now I’m an English/Philosophy major almost by accident, from the great professors I had.</p>
<p>You can enter college choosing undecided. You sound pretty ambitious and going undecided seems like a slacker’s choice, but it’s not. For one thing, you avoid paying extra tuition surcharges for special majors like business, nursing, engineering, or the hard sciences (at my state school, this is standard practice). You can still register easily for classes that interest you - 100 and a few 200 level classes rarely fill up completely, and you can investigate your interests since the content of college classes is far different from high school. A normal liberal arts degree at most schools only requires ~36 hours in the major out of 120 to graduate. This just means that the majority of your time will involve taking a lot of electives and general ed requirements. Engineering requires a lot more hours in its majors but if you’re interested in engineering, just start taking the intro classes to Aerospace Engr., and sign up for calculus, physics, and maybe intro to chemistry.</p>
<p>My sister is in med school and her premed requirements involved taking 8-9 classes in biology/physics/etc. You should probably ask someone else about the requirements but her major, psych, didn’t have to relate to med school at all.</p>
<p>I think this link might help - Cal Newport is one of the best bloggers on college academics out there.</p>
<p><a href=“http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/05/26/my-advice-for-rising-freshman/[/url]”>http://calnewport.com/blog/2009/05/26/my-advice-for-rising-freshman/</a></p>
<p>Thanks a lot that really helped and that link was great.</p>