Should I go into music?

I’m excited for you, too! Macalester should be a wonderful place to explore all of your interests. One of the coolest people I ever worked with went to Macalester.

Just to give you a little personal anecdote to illustrate what compmom says about major not matching career…when I was your age I wanted to study art and was convinced not to because my parents didn’t think I could make a living that way (this is part of why I am supportive of my son’s plan to major in music). I ended up loving where I went to college, I came in as undecided but ended up majoring in an equally “unmarketable” major (a modern language), and through several accidents of fate ended up making a career in the internet/web industry just as it was getting off the ground in the mid 90s. That career field didn’t even EXIST when I was headed to college. Now in my late 40s both my career and hobbies are drifting back toward creative/artistic pursuits and when my son goes to college I plan to take some community college art courses (both traditional media and digital media). If you stay open minded and explore the opportunities available to you it is possible to reinvent yourself multiple times in the course of your life.