Choosing your major

Jorge Castillo

Many students come to college with their minds set on what profession they want to study and have made that decision early in their lives. Nonetheless, there is a large group of students who enroll in college and are still clueless on what they want to study. Making students who fall under this category of undecided mayors understand that it's perfectly normal to be in the position they are is key to help them discover themselves and decide what they want to do with their lives.

The best advice in this topic according to Dr. Randall S. Hansen, founder of MyCollegeSuccessStory.com, is not to panic. Considering the facts that most college students arrive to college unsure about what career paths they are going to take in life and that most students change their majors at least once throughout their college careers, arriving to college with no idea of what one wants to study is no problem. Therefore, don't panic since in college everyone is in the same position. College is all about discovering yourself and deciding what one really wants to do with one's life.

Basically, one must first examine things that interest you and the abilities one may have in these fields. Then one must think of the type of work of your preference, like for example, whether working in groups or alone, under pressure, in large projects, etc. Once one is sure of the type of work you like to do, one must then research on the different careers that match your interests, abilities, and preferences. There are an infinite number of careers out there, so even though you don't find the perfect one for you, at least narrow down your search to a couple of them.

Even when one is completely sure of a major to pursuit and actually graduate, it doesn't necessarily mean one will spent all of one's life doing that. Even so, studies show that most people will change their careers at least four times throughout their lives. This being said, there's no definite major that will prepare you for life. Just try to make the wisest decision and decided on the major(s) that best suit your goals and interests.