My advice to anyone entering college: go undeclaired for the first year. I don't give a fuck if you think God predestined you be a Math major and that you'd be completely horrible at anything else you can possibly imagine. I don't care if Math was the only subject you liked at school and the only subject you took honors courses in. Go underclaired and take a bunch of random classes on random topics. You still get Gen Ed credit. Major in the one with the subject matter you enjoy the most. Realize that you really don't know jack shit out of High School even if you'd like to think you do, and more importantly realize your interests and ideas will probably change a lot. Changing your mind and opinions on things can happen radically and unexpectedly. If you go underclaired and end up spending an extra year in college, who cares? You might discover a new passion that you'd never have expected to persue.
Of course, that's just my opinion. I speak from experience though. I took the path of a Music Education major, which basically should be a 5 year degree but they cram it into 4 years. This means the only real Gen Eds I could take were in my senior year. And low and behold, that was the year I took a class in Chinese religion. It was the most enjoyable class I had in my four years of college, not just because the professor was good but because I truly enjoyed the material we covered and the topics we discussed. I should've been a religion major. *CRIES*
Actually, things aren't too bad for me now. I'm student teaching (which means basically working full time at a school but not getting paid for it) and I've finally learned the trick to teaching music. Only took me 4 months of student teaching to figure it out ; ; But I enjoy it a lot now. Maybe I won't be miserable for the rest of my life
There's nowhere I can't reach.
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