Changing Your Major is OK

When we go off to college we generally have some sort of plan in mind for our time in college, and our future thereafter. Some people have such a single mindset or belief in one future that we don’t even consider other possibilities.

However, many students learn (hopefully early) in their college classes that they don’t like their major classes, or they are boring, or so hard that it isn’t worth it anymore.

Don’t fret, it’s okay to have a mid-college crisis (sometimes associated with a mental breakdown). Most students change their major at least once, if not two or three times in college.

You should keep an open mind during your first couple of years, take a variety of GE classes, and see what areas of study you find interesting.

College is supposed to a fun and open experience, so don’t feel as if you have to know what you want to do with your life the first day of college. That kind of worrying should be for after you graduate.

I do strongly encourage finding out what you want to major in within the first three years, because changing after that can lead to difficulty in graduation. But again, you don’t have to pick out your career, just a field of study that works for you.

College life moves pretty fast, if you don’t look around once in a while, you might miss it.

p.s. If you don’t get the above reference, go out and rent Ferris Bueller’s Day Off