Changing Majors

Maybe you had it all planned out for years. You knew in early High School, maybe in Middle School that you wanted to be a teacher or a nurse. When picturing your life after high school, you may have thought about your wonderful college life and a job right after high school and everything was laid out nicely. However, now that you’re in college, you’re having doubts. Maybe you aren’t doing as well in your classes for your Major as you thought and you’re not understanding what’s going on no matter how hard you try and how many tutors you have. Maybe you talked to professors and researched the job market for that major online and found that the outlook wasn’t too good. Or maybe you started taking classes and realized that your major isn’t as enjoyable as you thought and you’ve been enjoying other classes not in your major more than you thought you would. At this point you come to a scary decision - changing majors.

Changing majors is not a bad thing. It’s better to realize these things early on in your college life because it isn’t as hard to change as it would be later on in college. You don’t want to force yourself through your major if you’re not really enjoying it and know that you would enjoy a different major or career path better. It’s incredibly scary to have your college and career planned out for so many years and in a shorter span of time realize that it’s not for you. Talk to your family and friends and maybe even professors in the field you are thinking about. This is a tough decision to make, so you don’t want to take it lightly and go to the Registrar’s office the day after you decide that you want to switch majors. Make sure you know what your career options are with this major and if it is something you are, in fact, interested in. You can even try to shadow someone in that career path to see if what they are doing is something you would love to do every day. The most important thing to remember is that it is okay to change majors. It’s going to be stressful and you’re going to have to do a lot of running around talking to professors and getting signatures for the change, but if it’s what you really want to do, then it will be worth it in the end.