Daughter wants to give up?

ucsd_ucla_dad
Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:47:17 +0000

I wanted to echo some others in that this isn’t that unusual. She spent the first couple of years exploring, which helped her decide what she DOESN’T want to do, and now she feels pressured to pick something else. She happened to already try one of the tougher majors, CS, which is a major in which a relatively high percentage of students don’t do well, find themselves without the aptitude for that area, or are just not interested in it. She also tried another area where many people don’t do well - chemistry. Fine, now she knows that those areas aren’t for her. She needs to now focus on areas she’d be interested in even if they don’t appear to be a direct path to a particular field so she can get her degree and then move forward from there.