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I can't decide what to major in

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KharBevNor:
I write papers and such too. Art is harddd.

tania:
i've found that the general field you do your undergrad in is usually more important than the specific major. i'm doing an MA in criminology right now but i actually did my undergrad in sociology and social psychology. i fussed and cried over the decision to pick up a psychology minor for about a year thinking it was a life or death decision. by the time i graduated and started looking for jobs, all anybody wanted was a social sciences degree. by the time i figured out that what i wanted to do with my life was specialize in criminology (with a research project totally and completely unrelated to psychology), all my school wanted was a social sciences degree. it turned out my choice in major/minor actually meant nothing to no one at all and i still haven't used my psychology minor for anything. oh well! at least the courses were interesting.

not to trivialize this decision (this is coming from a person with massive anxiety)... but i don't think your specific major is going to make too much of a difference in the long run. just pick a general field you don't think you'll change your mind too many times about in the next few years and it'll work out fine.

tania:
alternately, i once had a real smart professor tell me when i was freaking out about my life that if the reason i couldn't decide what i wanted to do with my life was because i liked too many things, then the best course of action is to just pick something and don't look back because no matter what you pick, you'll probably like it anyway and continuously examining your options and second guessing is just going to confuse and distract you from something you already like anyway. if that's the case for you then that's probably the best thing you can do. it worked out well for me. if, on the other hand, you can't decide what you want to major in because you hate basically everything then that's a different problem and you should consider whether you actually want to be in school, maybe, probably.

Elizzybeth:
Tania speaks the truth.

It's also worth noting that if you want to go on in school beyond a Bachelor's degree, a lot of places are actually really accepting of people from other fields, provided you're willing to do some additional coursework and have good letters of rec.  I knew a woman who was planning to go to med school for dermatology, but got her degree in English (while doing the necessary pre-med coursework) because (1) she loved English and (2) evidently med schools think it's cool when you can ace the pre-med stuff and are also a dang good writer.

Conversely, I'm in an English MA program with people who got undergrad degrees in science, math, women's studies...

So it's not like you're committing to a permanent, lifetime course of action necessarily!

McTaggart:
Pure maths is clearly the only option.

I missed my chance to get into a pure maths stream and I was really disappointed for a while, but then I realised that if I do physics or computer science (which I was doing anyway) I can sort of force them into the direction that I want. I'm pretty sure it is true for every broad field that there is enough overlap that even if you don't pick the thing it turns out you want you can probably get into it anyway.

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