Curiosity question about picking a major

marblecatdog
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:42:16 +0000

Ok, my title might be a tad miss leading, but I think it summarizes it best. Ok so here is my (I hope quick) story. I am a 2nd semester college student looking for a major. I came to my current college (2000 student, liberal arts school just fyi) as a music major (specifically a composition major) and that was a big reason to pick this college. So after three semester of being a music major, I was all but forced to drop it. I was the worst musician for my instrument (I sat last chair in the worst group and otherwise understood nothing about how to play my instrument) and I had been unable to pass the first of four ear training classes so far, so there was no hope at this point. So now I’m looking for a major, problem is that I don’t think I care enough about any one area to put the effort into it to do a major. I’ve thought about computer science (because I’m good at it and it’s not to boring) but (no offense computer science majors) but what a waste of a human life, I cannot imagine myself working on computer all day, I would go crazy. I thought about philosophy, but honestly, what the hell do you do with that? I do not want to teach (I hate teaching) so I couldn’t teach philosophy, so what? Plus, I don’t think I could ever find the motivation to read all of the needed books and such. And I’ve looked at all the other majors but they all sound so boring, stupid or not me (for example I’m terrible with blood and such so I’m not going to be a doctor and so on). So I guess my question after my not so short story is if anyone has any advice, maybe you’ve been in this situation and have some ideas, I’m pretty open to anything and feel free to ask things of me, I trying to get a grasp on what is going down here. Thanks folks!