Dad wants a practical major

anon94785555
Sun, 17 Jul 2016 03:18:29 +0000

Don’t bother with the premed route unless being a physician is truly your passion. You can consider several related fields for the public health angle. The time spent to become a physician, after the grueling work getting admitted, plus the lifestyle to earn the money isn’t worth it unless you really enjoy that. I’ll never regret becoming a physician but that became my passion (after chemistry, I declined my HS econ’s suggestion for majoring in economics back in the dark ages- did well but did not like it well enough).

Give yourself a year and you will be much better able to define your career path and explain your rationale to your father. So- enjoy college. Every course taken has value- as does the time spent with other students outside the classroom. I’m sure every college student in every generation has discussed enough to solve all of the world’s problems and then some in the wee hours.