DJpsu2015

I'm definitely one of those people who wishes to major in everything! But I'm overall passionate about my studies. I still can't decide if I want to major in Business or Public Relations with Film Studies....

kenzie1992

I'm another one of those people who is interested in a lot of things. I'm a chemistry major, and I don't know if I would say I'm PASSIONATE about chemistry but I really do quite enjoy it, and I did LOVE organic chemistry. Mostly I'm just excited about science as a whole, and of all sciences chemistry clicks most with my brain. Humanities and arts majors study a lot of unpleasantness, and there's not a lot of hope of that going away. Science studies questions, and there's infinite opportunity for progress. Instead of jaded about the world, my major leaves me hopeful for what is to come.

And I chose to do this at a liberal arts college so I can continue to take classes in and pursue my other love - acting, even though that's not a viable career option for me.

pandamic

I love chemistry and all the sciences, but my real passion is helping children . So, that's why I'm majoring in biochemistry. I want to go to medical school and then hopefully become a pediatrician, with a specialty in oncology.

da6onet

Major: Aerospace Engineering (Astronautical)
Future Study: Systems Engineering, PMP
Dream Jobs: Project/Program Manager/Director at any medium to large scale company/agency building and operating spacecraft (NASA, Lockheed, Boeing, SpaceX, Orbital Sciences, etc.)
Goals: Ensuring cool spacecraft gets built, furthering human expansion beyond Earth.

As someone returning to school after nearly a decade, it wasn't so much that I didn't know what I wanted to do, it was that I didn't know how to get there. When I was younger I never would have given myself the chance to try for something so ambitious, but now I realize just how important it is to go for something in which you believe. Technically my undergraduate degree is just a stepping stone for what I really see myself doing, but it makes more sense to define it in terms of being half of what I want to do, with the other half requiring work experience and graduate study. I suppose it would be accurate to say I am passionate about my field of study.

SillyStokey92

I'm planning on double majoring in History and English and yes, I absolutely love both of them. I couldn't imagine being something like a math or science major, even though I did consider Biology for a while. And yes, I'm okay with being a college professor in the future. I don't think I would have survived being in a major just to make money in the future; I would be so unhappy.

discoinferno

Well, I'm passionate about having money and bossing people around, so in a way yes.

Seriously though, my passions are music and politics, but early on I asked myself, "Even if I'm passionate about studying those subjects, would they allow me to live a passionate professional life?"

Music: We live in a generation in which the recording industry is essentially dead and the only musicians making money are TV personalities. I neither want to be a panhandler or involved in the "entertainment industry", so that was the end of that. That, and if you're really good, and one of the few real musicians who still make it by actually composing music, then a college degree will be irrelevant (maybe even a distraction?) anyway.

Politics: We live in a generation where political science has very little to do with actual politics and people vote for billion dollar "Hope & Change" TV personalities who are privately sponsored just like any other TV show. Very few people are actually making a living researching speculative political systems. I don't want to spend the rest of my life grinning and giving the thumbs-up to the illiterate mob telling them how great some guy I've never met is/feeling ashamed of myself so that was the end of that.

I realized that I'd rather be dead than watch the things I'm passionate about perverted by industry every day. I realized mixing passion and work isn't that great of an idea, with a few rare exceptions.

Money management & computer programming for me. They may not be typical passionate subjects but I never have to worry about degrading/ruining my personal passions at work.

that1guyy

Hey man,

I'm majoring in Communications. Some schools I'm applying have "practical" concentrations within the major but others are simply "communication studies." This is widely considered an easy or joke major meant for frat/sorority girls or athletes who just want to graduate.

However, I am serious about this field and planning on obtaining relevant internships so I can work in the advertising industry after graduation.

I also plan on eventually obtaining an MBA so a liberal arts major undergrad is a viable option.

If you major in something that doesn't seem practical, just make sure you know what you're getting into and have a plan, like I do. With enough effort it will work out.

klmn123

Architecture is my passion.
But I will study Computer Science or Economics(or both???).
Damn, what's wrong with me.

OrbInfinite

I thought physics was my passion, but I took a class of it for the first time my senior year of HS. I can't say I really enjoyed it.. I never really looked forward to the class. Now, I'm an incoming college freshman majoring in Engineering Physics, and can't help but feel as though I made a terrible mistake! What's worse is that there are no GECs first-year, so I cannot even explore what I may like and dislike! I really wanted to minor in Neuroscience, but I couldn't fit it into my schedule first-year either..

Ugh... life

noimagination

I think it's highly misleading to imply that choosing a more marketable major is about 'making money' or something to that effect. That would be true if each and every graduate ended up in his or her field of study and income were the only differentiating factor. In reality, many college grads wind up 'underemployed' in jobs that are not only low-paying but also completely unrelated to their majors because they didn't develop in-demand skills. Such individuals are hardly pursuing a passion by working as cashiers.
"Exploring" is way overrated; it's not like you will get a perfect picture of your future from taking one or two lower-division courses in a subject.

iluvpiano

I'm a music major- Piano Performance, and I really couldn't imagine studying anything else in college. I love music so much, wouldn't know what else I'd be able to do all day at school without being bored or hating it. A bunch of music majors all talk about how pointless gen ed classes are for us and how we don't really love anything else as far as classes/majors go...so yeah.

romnickhudges

I'm sure that not everyone is actually that passionate about their major although being passionate is really important in order for someone to really effective in his/her future profession. If you like what you then there's no reason for you not to excel in that field. Well, if you practice professionalism and wants to progress you have to love what you are studying and be productive in everything that has to do with it. Also, if if you do not set your concentration in your major how can you become successful in the future.


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jeffgordon

Caldud, great story. I have to ask: "Surely You're Joking ...", right? ;-)

CalDud

Nope. "What do you care what other people think?"

I enjoyed that book a lot, though. :P

Philovitist

I looove studying the mind. Nothing else matters as much to me as my need to figure out how it works. For me, it's a spiritual project of self-understanding. Through it, I shall discover the answers to some of the deepest questions ever posed in our civilization.

Or. I'll make some of the major strides needed to cure the internal turmoil than so many of the mentally ill undergo.

Or I'll develop mathematical models and achieve that holy grail of science — reliable prediction of phenomena (like John Gottman).

Or I'll develop commercial applications of cognitive neuroscientific progress that will both make me rich and change the world as we know it.

Or something else!

The possibilities are endless! The terrain is unexplored! Life awaits!