5 Tips For Choosing a Major
College can be very enlightening and engaging.
It also can be frightening. It is your future you’re working towards. So here are five tips toward choosing a college major. See if they work for you.
5. Strike Up A Conversation
Have a major or career in mind? Well, why not contact a professor or other professionals in that field? Find out what it takes to reach certain goals and discover what the career entails. Who knows what you’ll find out.
4. “Follow Your Heart, That’s What I Do” -- Napoleon Dynamite
Don’t ignore your passions or interests. If you like to play video games, why not study in order to make your own? Have a taste for the culinary arts? Have an itching business acumen? Do what you like to do.
3. E-Schedule It
Go to the college website and download the E-Schedule. Sift through the classes and areas of study. Highlight areas that interest you. Try to find patterns and narrow your areas of interest. This is also a good time to discuss opportunities with advisors, professors and students already in the program of interest. Pick their brains.
2. Don’t Box Yourself In
College, so to speak, is kind of a fresh start. Once out of high school, you may look at certain subjects differently -- areas of study that seemed uninteresting as a senior in high school may take on a different countenance in college. Don’t write off certain majors because of your pre-determined ideas.
1. Don’t Rush
College is more of a marathon than a sprint. Why make a hasty decision and then potentially discover another area of interest later and end up changing paths and wasting time?
For more information, visit the Academic Advising webpage or download the latest version of the E-Schedule.
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