Tips for Picking a College Major - Comments

You're very right with this, it's our decision to make that will make us happy and choose the things that we want to do and will do for the rest of our life. This was very helpful for me, however I did expect it to me more specific. Yet, how could it be more specific? That would be selfish because I would be looking for the answers to my questions in my dreams. Yet, this article suits very well with every reader and I am glad I have read yours.

I know it's so far away, and I will change my mind so many times, but if I go to college, I want to go into a good journalism school. I want to double-major in English and Journalism, since I love Liberal Arts, and maybe work in the news category. Not as an anchor, but as just one of the writers. That would be pretty amazing. :)

Thank you! :D

I just graduated high school and I'm already enrolled in community college but I have no clue what I want to do with my future. Honestly I'm just at school to be there and because shockingly it's hard to get into the community college in my town. I've considered psychology for a major but I don't want to do that because I just lost interest in it. I've considered the medical field but the only reason I'm considering it is because my parents are pressuring me into it. Basically I feel completely lost.

As for your article I think it's helped me, when I start college in August I'm taking a few classes I like and all are transferable so I can transfer to SF State.

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I'm definitely considering a community college. Actually, I'm considering going for my associate's in graphic design.

I was just saying, in regards to the article, that it does lean more toward a four year school for students who have just graduated high school.

Dru, maybe you could take a class at a community college? If you don't have extra cash to pay for it, a lot of community colleges will give you financial aid. There are classes online if you don't have the time and my local community college actually has a class to help you pick a job. I'm not really sure how it works, though.

I like this article, but I find it doesn't really apply to adults, just young people who are getting ready to enter college at 18/19. Sad for me. I can't pick a major and I don't have the money/luxury to shop around and figure it out, either.

I told this to the freshmen students I was a TA for in a Chicano studies class. They snickered as if I was crazy.

It saddens me seeing people going to certain majors only because they'll find money there; I always try to encourage freshmen students by telling them the possibilities of each degree, because, really, they are not even informed on what having certain major means and what are the possibilities later in life; they're just concerned with how much money they will make.

I'm actually one of those people who's happy with a pre-med major, because I've been fascinated by medicine since I was eight or nine. I've actually chosen two minors - music and Spanish - because I love both of those things and couldn't decide between them!

But all that personal stuff aside, I thought this was a very helpful article, especially for someone who's starting college in the fall! >>