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Well I was really into biology and wanted to go into some kind of healthcare field so at first I was a biology major.

Then i realized it was too hard but I loved psychology so I because a psychology major!And I’ve been a psych major for over 3 years when all of a sudden I realized I’m not very good at it but I am pretty far in Asian Studies soooo…Asian Studies Major!

I never thought much about my major until tenth grade, which was when I decided I wanted to be a psychiatrist.  Since then I’ve entertained the idea of marine biology/regular biology, but I’ve settled with (child) psychiatry again.  It shall stay put unless I have another internal crisis.

i loved chemistry in high school, even though i only got a B in the class, it was fascinating and I went for it in college- its a shitton of work and I dont always do perfectly but I’m in love with it and dont regret it.

still deciding – confused between business (perhaps a dual degree of math&business), kinesiology (and a major in physiology), and life sci (double major of physiology & immunology)…I guess I want to either end up in health care (PT/OT), law, or research.

Engineering because of the money and my family.  

I decided I’d go with my passion and get a degree in clarinet performance with an art minor, and the plan was to go to grad school and then try to break into being a professional symphonic musician.  Then I had an “early life crisis” and realized how f-ing hard that was going to be and that I might have to get shitty jobs anyway while waiting for auditions…so 3 years later I went back for web design (just finished that degree!) and will probably get my M.B.A. because I think it will give me lots of opportunities and will help if this whole starting-my-own-business-to-sell-my-artwork thing happens.

Basically all I want to do is be an artist and play some gigs, but unfortunately that doesn’t pay for shit.  So for now I’m still undecided in customer service, with a good side job playing church organ so I don’t feel like my music education was a waste (and I rarely ever feel that way because I still love it so much).

I’ve been dead set on going to law school since I was in high school. Since it didn’t matter what I majored in then, I chose something I loved – Classical Studies. A lot of Classics frequently overlapped with Philosophy, so I added that as a second major. Now I’m taking on Accounting as a third major so I can go into Tax Law. I can definitely say that my semesters are never boring with this much variety. 

I was digging around in the dirt sticking seeds in the ground since I was a little. I won at city fairs multiple years and have always loved plants. I major in horticultural science and am training to do tissue culture for biotechnological applications.

I love money and making money, so, of course, economics.

And I love politics and world affairs, so I minored in international relations.

And I had to take soooo much math for econ… I got a second minor in math.

I’ve known that I’ve wanted to go into the medical field since I was old enough to talk. I have always been amazing by anything medical. I’m hoping to get my Bachelors in Nursing eventually so I can specialize in oncology or pediatrics. Hopefully both. My ultimate dream is to work at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis.

I did my associate of arts degree at a community college, and used my electives to figure out what I wanted to major in when I transferred to a university to do the second half of my degree. It helps to go in feeling okay with being “undecided” and expecting to try new things, rather than thinking you absolutely must know your major from the very first day.

How did I pick my college major? By changing it a thousand times. I went from computer graphics, to fashion design, to journalism, to nursing, to english, and back to journalism/communications. I want to write for a fashion magazine one day. It combines a lot of my majors. I want to move to NYC someday.

I decided to go to music school after I realized I could actually turn my favorite hobby into a career. 

My parents wanted me to go into business since business people are in steady demand and make good money, but I hate math and I hate people and I know my aunt has been studying accounting persistently for the past like 20 years. I love school, but business and math always burned my brains out. When I was in grades 10 and 11, I looked into the art institute a couple hours away to study game art design, but I needed a prerequisite of animation which totalled $80,000 in a city far from home that is very, very expensive. Settled for a nearby school that I could drive/bus to in literally 10 minutes and applied for business.

The week before the university application deadline, my guidance counselor sent around an e-mail about a brand new program the same nearby school was opening up for new/interactive media enthusiasts: interactive arts and science. It combined game theory with interactive media, and anything else it could reach. Essentially it touches every other major, but most of the cross listings are with communications, visual arts, applied computing, computer science, and English.

I’m about to graduate and this year, we made our very own basic three-level first-person detective game and I was the lead 3D artist. The program being so new (there was only one rudimentary 3D class, the rest I taught myself), the professors weren’t really sure what to do with us. We wound up being more self-taught than anything, but it set a great baseline even if we will need further, practical education to secure careers in the field.

I study physics because I found that it gives the most comprehensive understanding of the way the world works. Every day I go into the classroom and learn new things which I would have never thought of or discovered on my own.  With any other subject, I always felt like I wasn’t gaining any sort of real understanding. 

I was going to be a music business major, but I hated business itself and theory classes weren’t my thing, so I ended up switching to a studio art major with my emphasis in printmaking.

Best decision I ever made.

I knew that writing was what I wanted to do ever since I can remember. Throughout the years, I polished my dream and decided Journalism is truly what I want to spend my life doing. 

Basically find something you love doing and follow it. 

When I was little, I wanted to be an artist. When I was in high school, I took a psychology class and became very interested in that, but photography was front in my mind. When it came time to pick a college, I knew I was going to major in art, but I couldn’t decide between fine arts, photography, or graphic design, so I picked photography, and we’ll see how it goes from there! It’s only been a semester, but I have a feeling I’ll change my major by the time I’m out of college

I took a Psychology class in high school and fell in love!!!  I’m about to start an Industrial Organizational master’s program in the fall!  I’m thinking about going for my PhD after that!  I can’t imagine myself doing anything other than Psychology.

The comments on this post are rather inspiring.

Wow! I am just in awe with the diversity of concentrations and high aspirations that all the commenters have! Way to go guys!

When I was younger, I wanted to be an archaeologist, then a marine biologist, then a forensic scientist. Yeah, I know, weird array of interests. When I started applying for colleges and had to decide on a major, I ended up choosing anthropology. I started community college and had the most wonderful professor teach my intro to physical anthropology class, and it was then that I knew I made the right decision.
Two years later, I’m at a 4-year college as a cultural anthropology major and studying people and different cultures and am also minoring in sociology. There’s a deceptively large amount of work involved in terms of reading and field work, but I couldn’t be happier. Anthropology is certainly my thing  :)

I’m starting off at a community college because I’m only sixteen (I was fifteen when I enrolled) and I’m majoring in Liberal Arts because it’ll give me a solid base of knowledge, and it’s also the program that has the best articulation agreements with various universities.

When I was in fourth grade, I broke my arm falling off the monkey bars, and I was rushed to the ER. I was in love with the ER and never wanted to leave, ever since then I knew I wanted to go into Health Care. Obviously being in fourth grade, I explored other careers, but I ended up back in Health Care. And then in high school I was in AP Psychology and I’ve been in love with psychology ever since. 

I’m studying to be a Physicians Assistant with a minor in cognitive psychology.

I took a psychology class in senior year and fell in love with the subject, and knew it was going to be my major.  When I started college, I wanted to be a child psychologist.

Since then, I’ve taken just one seminar on infant psychology, and I’m abandoning developmental psych.  Too much ambiguity!  However, I’m avidly chasing a career in psychiatry now, and I feel like this will stick.  :)  
I think it’s just a growing process.  As you get older, things sort of fall into place.

I was microbio but loathed the department-big, inefficient, impersonal, it was TOO easy to get lost. So in my Sophomore year I dropped it, but needed something to replace it fast. I oscillated between History, and Geology before finally picking Geology, and it’s great! So now I focus on biogeochemistry/organic geochemistry, and I’m getting a German/Scandinavian studies minor.

So yeah, I picked my major pretty much at random, and it worked out

When I started college, I knew that I wanted to work with kids. I knew that I couldn’t work with elementary or junior high aged children mainly due to the almost three years I spent at a before and after school program I worked at. Then I thought of special education (being a student in special education) but that didn’t work out because I’d be too personally involved in the students.

My counselor (who I kept my entire years at college) suggested taking an Intro to Early Childhood Education class. And that’s how I choose my major. And I’ve held two different (and steady) jobs in the field.

Now thinking about this I have no idea why I choose to start off my college careear as a computer science major. I was good with computers yes, but C++, html, Java and programing was a whole different thing. In high school I’ve always loved writing. I’ve been writing poems since I was 12. Then I took a AP psch class and fell in love with psch.

After my second semester in college I was doing horrible in my math and computer science classes and decided that English would be a better fit. Then I came back to psychology again. I only officially changed my major once.

I’m curretly a double major in pyschology and english with a concentration in Media and Rhetoric studies. So far so good!

I’ve always been certain I would have a writing career. It was really about having something extra because most writers I know can’t pay their bills without an actual job.

I started off as an English major before I decided I’d rather try journalism-which failed because I couldn’t stand the people in that program at my school and was miserable. I toyed with the idea of majoring in photography before I realized that it ruined the joy I get out of it.
 I eventually realized that my deep passion is for American Studies and American Indian studies and I’m combining the two and am already planning for my Ph.D in a few years. It allows me to write and address the things that are deeply important to me. Plus I can have a go at being a college professor which suddenly sounds exciting. 

I always wanted to do something within a health-related field but not like a doctor or nurse. I went into massage therapy college but had to drop out after the first term due to medical reasons. From there I didn’t know what to do and enrolled myself in university and just took general first year sciences, figuring I;d probably major in biology. A few weeks before school started I switched my chem class for psychology to lessen my work load (as I had 3 labs along with my 5 classes). So far I have loved EVERY SECOND of my psychology classes and am now a psychology major planning to do an honors degree and eventually go to grad school. Funny how things work out like that.

I got my degree in finance because my parents pushed me into it. Now that I’ve just graduated, I regret it because it’s not what I love doing at all. I always wanted something in psychology or sociology. I should have stood up for myself, because I’m the one that’s gonna be stuck in a job I don’t like, not them.

I was definitely inspired by the science department at my high school.  We’re a tiny town that ranks next to the big schools in science–thanks to the amazing teachers we have.  I loved Bio and Chem but I finally had to make myself realize that I was better at Biology…so I’m majoring in that but I still get my fair share of Chem classes (:

I’m also minoring in French just because I want to.  It may not be the most useful minor with Biology but I wanted to study something I was passionate about.

I wanted to be a doctor! Then a writer, then a Fashion Designer. Now I’ve settled on Environmental studies and becoming an engineer. Whooohooo! xD

I wanted to be a Psychologist my entire time growing up, then when I hit 11th grade I realized how much I loved Spanish class, and I took a Russian class my senior year of highschool…so I thought I’d major in Linguistics and Russian. I ended up dropping my Linguistics major this year because it wasn’t something I was completely in love with, so right now I’m just majoring in Russian, and trying to decide if I want to add a Romance Languages major, or just minor in Spanish. I’m just worried I’d be overloaded with the Russian/Spanish/Italian every semester from a double major…
Most of it was trial and error. I had no idea I would’ve hated Linguistics until I got deep into my Phonology and Syntax classes. I still like some parts of Linguistics, but the little technical scientific shit is not for me. I am more interested in culture, history, those sorts of thing…
Also, don’t stress so much about picking the “right major.” 99% of the time, unless you’re going into a very specific field, it does not matter what your bachelors is in, as long as you have one. Law school doesn’t give a shit if you were a Pre-Law or a Biology major, most grad school programs will accept you as long as you have a degree in something, unless it’s for a very specific program…hell, even well paying jobs that have nothing to do with your field will accept you (and sometimes even train you) for doing something that has NOTHING to do with what you did in undergrad. I have a friend who double majored in Pre-Law and History and now is the tech guy for a huge company. See?
Just pick something you love for undergrad. If you don’t love it, change it. Get your degree, and move on with your life

I wanted to double in bio and psychology, but then halfway through my bio major i was picking the next semester’s course and thought “oh i have to take that course and i have to take that one” where as i looked at the psych course and thought “i want to take all of these, how am i gonna pick?”

that’s how i picked psych.

then i started specializing in biopsych when i took the course and got a 4.0 without trying and everyone else barely passed

I started out trying to mix my passion (literature) with pragmatism (education major), but in the end I changed my major so that I could focus on what I love. It has it’s drawbacks, but I wouldn’t change it for the world.

PHILOSOPHY and psychology. I am OBSESSED with philosophy. It’s just my thing, I don’t even have to try and I get an A because it is all I think and care about. It is truly my passion. I am so lucky I stumbled upon it. Philosophy is a pretty lenient major, so it’s easy to double. I picked psych because it’s interesting and can be used as scientific basis to my philosophical arguments.

When I was much younger I has an uncanny fascination for Astronomy and any science. I never really grew out of this phase and today I am studying Astrophysics. My parent’s did nudge me towards fields that pay well in the medical area but I have always felt that a life spent chasing money is a life wasted.

Whenever someone asks me why I study what I do I normally just reply “Carl Sagan” and leave it at that.

Since elementary school I knew art was going to be my thing. For a while I was thinking fashion design, and realized it really wasn’t me. I’m going for illustration next year with a minor in photography. What I’d like to do with it is design artwork (tshirts/posters/album covers/other forms of advertising) for bands and take photographs as well, like band pictures. Ultimately I’d like to start a freelance for that market, and we’ll see how it goes

I love anime, hence me focusing on Japanese.

i wanted to be a doctor in middle school until high school…. but college changed my thoughts drastically

I’m majoring in Communication Design(aka graphic design & multimedia), and I

just

finished my second year on monday two more years to go…

When I was younger I was really interested in archeology, especially the focus being Egyptians.  Also I was interested in being a Coroner, because I wouldn’t be responsible for peoples lives, but finding out how they died.
Then 8th grade, found Adobe Photoshop Elements, self-taught myself for almost 2 years, took 3 years in high school of graphic design(learned more then Photoshop, psh!), and now I’m going for my BFA
I would love to freelance, but if I wouldn’t mind working for a design firm!
If for some reason technology completely fails and I can’t pursue my job, then I would still choose to become a Coroner

@articulate_silence@xanga - if you want to go into design, having experience with photography is DEFINITELY awesome and goes extremely well with it! you wouldn’t have to deal with royalties or any copyright issues, and you would be able to pick what photos you want to use etc. so you should keep both of those in mind

I went the practical route.  I went with a field and industry that was high in demand and rarely at a  loss.  Financial accounting.  Problem was I had no passion for it. 

If I were to go back to college now, I would try now to match my interests with my strengths and come up with something like writing or social work.

I am in college and I regret my major.

suck it, academia.

I’ve wanted to be a teacher since I was little so my major started out as Elementary Education, but during my third semester of college I took Intro to Sociology and fell in love! I had the most amazing professor who really made the class fun and the subject is amazing and so after that I decided to change my major to Sociology. I never thought I’d change it, but I did and I’m glad. I’ll be graduating with my Bachelor’s at the end of this year. And I still want to be a teacher.

I went in as a computer science major and a mathematics minor. I picked them in that order because I was equally good at both, but I liked computers more than math going in. When I got to my advanced programming classes, I found I hated writing programs, and since I already had enough for a CS minor, I just flipped my major and minor, and I graduated with a math major and a computer science minor. 

For the longest time I regretted my major. When I got to grad school in math, and I found out I didn’t like math near as much as I thought, and that I in fact sucked at math (comparatively speaking to classes at the graduate level), I regretted it because there’s not much you can do with a BS in math besides teach (and I tried that, hated it). However, I find myself using some of the advanced math I learned today as I make my way through flight school and my career as an airline pilot. Who knew it would come in handy? Needless to say, I don’t much regret my major anymore…

I’ve always cared about making science better, making the world better, wanting to decreased human suffering, caring about people in general, and loving brains in general and how they work. Therefore, I am a senior psychology major about to get my B.S. (science of course)…of course we grow up and learn the world is corrupted, political, and everyone only cares about themselves….sooo I don’t know what to do with my B.S.  now…

i thought i wanted to be a doctor, then i realized i wasn’t into the politics of that particular field, and also realized i was more interested in treating disease than diagnosing it…so i chose pharmacy. plus, it’s only 6 years instead of 10….

I wanted to do art for a living, but then I realized that I love to eat and only very few artists actually make a living. So I’m deciding I should do something related to computer science.

When I was going into college my plan was to go to law school and I’d always heard that law schools don’t so much like pre law majors and prefer students who did social sciences and humanities. So because of my interest in psychology I majored in psychology. Once I began to see my definitive interest in journalism and writing I added an English major and eventually completed my school’s journalism certificate. But all in all my major really sucked. I liked studying psychology just it just wasn’t what I wanted to do with my life, so I didn’t study with the fervor that I should have. If I could do it again, I’d first off go to a completely different school! And then I would major in journalism and minor in creative writing or double major in journalism and creative writing. 

I started off at my first college as undeclared with interests in poli sci (specifically international relations) and art, but sine that college for all intent and purpose sucked royally I transferred to a comparably better one.  At my current college I started with medieval studies, classics, and art; which is sort of where I am now, since I’m settling upon studying women’s agency in Medieval texts.  I figure that if I can’t get a job right out of college anyway then I may as well just study what I like to begin with and just be an academic for the rest of my life.

It’s working out well so far at least.

I didn’t get to choose, my University chose for me. I’m a Communications major with a concentration in television production. I know my interests, but I still have no clue what I want to do with my life.

I wanted to be a vet when I was growing up, but then we had to put my cat to sleep when I was 11 and so I decided I would never be able to put an animal to sleep. I chose nursing at the end of middle school/beginning of high school. The program is pretty much impossible to get into (at least in my area) and you have to have like a 4.0 and be a minority, so being as white and as average as they come that didn’t work out in my favor. So, I just changed my major today to health science and I’m going to go back for nursing in a year and a half once I have more experience and appear less average haha.

majoring in an online b.s. in business course. i like teaching & international relations so i’ll be playing with those in grad school (maybe a cert in music production or just as a hobby). when i’m old, i’d like to do something scientific after the youth wears off with the years of managing a family business and teaching online. xDD!

we have so many options but the pressure is on in timing cuz i gots parents to take care of when they’re older =_-;;

In 8th grade we went on field trips to jobs we might want, I ended up going to the teacher one, which I thought was stupid. In high school I had a few teachers who recommended I consider teaching since I had such a passion for the subjects I loved (English and History).
So when I went to college I went for Secondary Education (teaching grades 6-12) and graduated with a Bachelors degree which has been a great foundation for me. Even though I currently working in a library I continue to pursue teaching. I don’t regret my major for a second and currently plan on pursuing a masters degree first in Library Science and then in Education and other topics.

At first, I based my major on just what I thought I wanted to be: a doctor. I was a pre-med major my first year of college, took one biology class, and decided I hated it. The money sounded great, but there’s more to a profession than just the money, right? So then I fell back on my second love: teaching. Besides knowing that I enjoyed teaching, I also majored in that because I’d had so many people tell me that I was good at it. A little part of me thought I wasn’t good at anything else, so I HAD to go into teaching. I’ve now taught for a year and a half, and I do enjoy it. It’s definitely frustrating at times, but it’s also very rewarding. I also like the fact that I can leave my job at 3:30 pm if I want to (I rarely ever do this, though — too much to do!) and not look back until 7:45 the next day.

Financially, I went to the other side of the spectrum when I switched from pre-med to education, but I’m happy about the switch. I can’t say there aren’t days when I wonder what it would’ve been like to major in, say, interior design, but…I’m happy.

I was always interested in science and so even though when I was little I wanted to be different things, I would always come back to science. So, I went with a science major for college. I am now a fifth year senior and am a Bio major with a Geoscience minor.

I have always wanted to be a teacher with the exception of the year that I wanted to be a psychiatrist until I realized that I suck at advising people and figuring out personal problems and would make a crap psychiatrist. Music is pretty much my life and it helps keep me grounded so I went into music education. I had a slight freak out after finding out how much background I lacked in classical music and switched to Spanish education because my Spanish teachers always said I would be a good Spanish teacher. I absolutely hated not being in music and I realized I don’t actually have a passion for Spanish so I switched back to music education. I don’t see myself changing it and I hope I don’t end up regretting it later.

@sunflowersforlove@xanga - and a minority????

@Ms_Lola_Mae@xanga - Haha I don’t think even a degree will do that :p

Wanted to be an English major, but I was premed. Since bombing my science courses but got a decent grade in my Psych class, I changed my major to Psychology, because found that majoring in that, I could finish in four years (and on schedule). I grew to like psychology (especially cognitive/learning psych) but did something else for grad school. There are days when I reflect that I should have probably stuck with Psychology, or social work, or counseling, or something in that realm, because it suits me better than what I went to grad school for.

But I’m done with school – really done – and I’m not going back.

When I was younger I thought i wanted to be a lawyer, probably because i watched law and order so much. Then in the 6th grade we had a special career day and after listening to this lawyer say strong writing and reading skills were a requirement i knew i needed to purse something else. So the next career i went to was cosmetic. I found this high school that made you certified after four years and i thought i was set. Turns out the school was awful and so i never went. I instead went to a regular high school with specialized programs. There i feel in love with the hospitality and tourism academy. After graduating from high school i had every intention in majoring in hospitality and tourism and minoring in business administration or management.  I ended up not being able to afford to go to this university near my house and was able to go out state instead. Unfortunately they didn’t have hospitality but had business and thus for this year i have been a business major, dreaming about hospitality. Recently a couple of girls on my floor have asked me to help them lose weight. After much success, i realized how much i love fitness and sports. Now i’m thinking of majoring in business and minoring in either recreational or personal trainer. i hope to be coach, and work in a clinic. 

I was really into doing sound for theatre in high school and I took my highest level technical theatre class for 3 years (and it was a year long class unlike most). I went to college expecting to continue on with theatre (my real goal in life is to get a book published because I love writing, but I didn’t want to be an English major cuz it seemed too boring and at the same time I loved theatre].

I lived 30 minutes away from my college and rehearsals that ran until 1 o’clock in the morning just weren’t working for me. I pretty much only ever saw my boyfriend when he was sleeping [we live together] and I was forgetting about assignments in order to get bigger ones done and I flunked a test that fell in the middle of my show weeks. Not to mention I really never had time to eat a decent dinner… I pretty much had Jimmy Johns and Subway every day.

I’m still sort of sad that I left because I miss those crazy theatre kids and the awesome teachers [and not to forget the slacked General Ed. requirements]. But I’m really happy where I am now.

I switched to Media Studies. At my school, you can either concentrate in film production or radio broadcasting and being a drama dork, I chose film production cuz after all; it’s theatre, just recorded. A lot of the lighting and sound information I’ve learned so far has been really similar to theatre so I’m happy I can still enjoy something similar without late night rehearsals.

@ohmyits_erin@xanga - Oh, now thats a really good point, I hadn’t even thought about that!

Well I was really undecided during the spring and summer before Freshman year. I was stuck between some social science and photography. I love history and or politics, but I really wanted to learn about photography. Because I was just getting into it and I really was fascinated by photography, especially black and white and historic photos. And I love making great photos. So I chose photography. My college offers two types. Fine Art photography concentration and photographic imaging concentration. I chose the later, which allowed to work a little with video which was awesome.

But now I have a urge to push with the video/film thing. And I like writing too so. It all some how relates.

You can translate almost any passion into owning your own business, so don’t give up on that if it’s what you want to do!

I have a degree in culinary arts, but decided that I mostly enjoy cooking for fun, not for pay. My next degree will be business administration, concentrating on human resources. It probably sounds dry, but I love it. I love the construction world, and this lets me assist in running our business. I may take some classes in drafting and project management as well.

In my junior year of high school, my classes were like: Pre-Calculus, Psychology, Physiology, French, American Literature and US history. I had no career path. I really like films but earlier I felt like I was just waiting for myself to get tired of it. Even though I knew it’s really hard to get into and considering it’s in art field I’d be starving for a while. That didn’t change my mind about it but I still wasn’t sure.

Thank God for community college. Where you can explore a lot of things in really low prices.

@WaitingToShrug@xanga - Yeah I see what you mean. But getting money for what I like kinda ruins it for me. I guess it adds pressure for me to do it right and I’m just not good under pressure.

Growing up I wanted to be a veterinarian, but then I took biology in 9th grade and hated it so I changed to music education.  Then I realized I hated all my music teachers and didn’t wanna be like them, but I was really enjoying physics.  I entered college as a physics major.  First semester of my sophomore year (so 3rd semester in college) I realized that I did not want to spend the rest of my life doing mathematical equations holed up in a lab somewhere, so I switched back to my original idea.  I’m now animal science and technology, pre-vet track   And I’ve got minors in music, physics, and math.  I will be graduating next May (2012).