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What do you do when you're in college and are undecided about majors? What helps you choose?

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Thank you comment icon Reflect on your interests and goals. Explore different majors through courses and extracurricular activities. Seek advice from advisors and professionals. Use career assessment tests and research. Consider practical aspects and personal values. Be open to change and trust the process of self-discovery in college. gohar
Thank you comment icon When uncertain about majors in college, reflect on interests, goals, and long-term vision. Explore diverse courses and extracurricular activities to gain exposure. Seek guidance from advisors and professionals to understand potential career paths. Use resources like career assessments, research, and informational interviews. Consider practical aspects, job prospects, and personal values. Embrace the journey of self-discovery in college and remain open to change. Trust yourself to make a decision that aligns with your aspirations. gohar
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Lynn’s Answer

Does your school have a career center or placement office that offers counseling or testing to give you some feedback or help you see a pattern to your interests? If so, that can be one place to start. Matching what you love best with your personality and preferred work environment is like a funnel of information that will eventually distill into a good choice for you. Do your friends or family often remark that you'd be perfect at "this"? That can be good food for thought, too. Try to talk with and/or visit/shadow people who are in occupations that you think might be a match with things that interest you. Trying out a job on an internship may be another way to test an interest area. Bottom line: What do you love learning, talking, and knowing about the most, in your life? What job/jobs would allow you to experience that every day?
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Ken’s Answer

Hi Mario!


You might want to ask you favorite teachers and your school counselor to indicate into which fields they might see you fitting. You could then participate in coop and intern and shadowing programs to experience those fields and go to the alumni relations office of your school to meet graduates of your school who are doing those things, so that you could experience them and see how they got there.


Best of luck! Please keep me informed. If would like to follow your progress.
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Gloria’s Answer

Hi Mario,

It is not a bad thing going into college undecided. I believe that it is more common for people to not know what they want to do for a living when they go to college. I found the people found what they wanted to do during their time in college. Sometimes it is easier to start a major of interest to see if it can really be a career. Then people are inspired by a class to change their focus to another major. I changed my major fives time before I found what I really wanted. Looking back, I would not have change my major that many times. Instead, I would have gone with a more generic major. For example, I ended up using my writing hobby as a skill to get the job that I have today. If I knew then what I know now, I would have simply been an English major and completed my college education faster.

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