The Importance Of Choosing A Major In College

From grade school up until high school, we are all told what to do and what to study; however from the moment you walk across that podium and accept that diploma, you make the decisions. It is now your time to decide what you want to study and how to make that work in the real world. In all honesty, it feels like a right or wrong decision that you can only make once. Choosing a major in today’s modern world has become more about how much money you can make from that career instead of what you love doing and transforming that into a career. The truth of the matter is that it is okay to not know exactly what it is you want to do in college, or to choose a major and switch. Choosing a major in college should not feel like a burden, rather it should feel like one of the first steps you take to starting life in the real world. Just like real life, it is okay to …show more content…
I can still recall walking through the gymnasium with my friends excited and terrified of the prospect of high school. In addition, I was already nervous about walking up onto the podium twice, out of fear that I would fall. Little did I know, I would be making that dreaded trip a third time. After I successfully made the trip to give my salutatorian speech, I sat back down and counted down the minutes until we were finally free. It was during the awards portion of the ceremony, and it was dragging on; the minutes felt like hours and I worried that it would never end. Suddenly my 8th grade homeroom teacher, Mrs. Sheehan, called my name for a history award. This award is given every year to a student who shows interest and excels in history. When this happened I was in shock, at this point in my life, I was not particularly interested in history; I watched historical movies with my father and enjoyed historical fiction books, however it was nothing more than a necessary evil in order to pass