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hello cat! i've seen you make so many posts about this with like advice and stuff but I really wanted to ask- what was your own personal process of figuring out what you want to major and minor in? did you do any extra curriculars? what subjects were you confused between? i'm at that point where i have to pick a major and I could really use some help 😬 I hope this is not much of a trouble 💟 also, your previous education-related posts are super helpful-thanks a lot ✨

Hi, sweetpea 💞 ah, I can relate this question so well because I changed my majors twice and my minors twice because I honestly had no idea what I wanted to do 😅 it’s kinda ridiculous that society expects a teenager to know what they want to do for the rest of their life tbh.

for my own personal process, I started as a computer science engineering major. It’s the easiest to transfer to a different major from engineering, which is why I chose that major and also because I was a huge robotics nerd and did it all four years in high school and loved it. However, I wasn’t completely sold on being an engineer, so during my freshman year, I overloaded and took the required classes for a business major as well. I had five classes and two labs every quarter during my first year, and I don’t really recommend it unless you know you can push yourself to stay on track. From that one year, I discovered that I didn’t like engineering. The material is awesome, don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love learning about technology and artificial intelligence, but the job itself is so isolating. I was basically resigning myself to sitting in a cubicle and debugging code with zero communication for the rest of my life. The stereotypes about engineers being bad at communication and talking are true from what I experienced in that one year. As an extrovert, I couldn’t stand that kind of career lifestyle. I needed human interaction in my job, so I dropped engineering. Engineering also made it difficult to add on any minors since the coursework is already so rigorous and your class schedule is essentially already planned out for you. I wanted to do art, and I wasn’t able to with engineering.

During my second year, I declared myself as a finance and studio art double major and added on an entrepreneurship minor. I really like making money, and I’m good at reading/talking to people, so business really piqued my interest. I chose finance because I wanted to do investment banking. If you get hired by a good company, you can be making 100k straight out of uni. This is where the overloading from freshman year helped because since I overloaded on business classes, I was still right on schedule to graduate on time. Actually, I could have graduated a year early. But then I took this financial accounting class that was a requirement for all business majors. That class literally changed my career plans. I never thought I’d like it, but the professor changed it all. I really, really like that professor and his teaching style, and everything just clicked in that class. It was challenging, but I enjoyed that class so so much because of that professor. Honestly, if I had a sucky professor for that class, I wouldn’t be on the career path that I’m on today. I still keep in touch with him :’) anyway, I started to research that major more and discovered that I could also pair it with an information systems major aka a coding major. tbh I lowkey missed coding so I thought this was the perfect combination for me.

During my third year, I switched to double majoring in accounting and information systems with a minor in studio arts. I did have to overload a couple quarters in order to graduate on time, but it was worth it in my opinion :’) so yeah, that’s how I figured out what I wanted to major and minor in!! It was a long process, but I’m satisfied with the end result 💓

as for extracurriculars in uni, I was a part of the robotics club, art club, and accounting association! I also applied for and was accepted for a year long volunteering fellowship during my junior year where I volunteered for 25 hours a week the entire school year and worked at a nonprofit, helping them with the business side of their organization 💞 I volunteered at a hospital weekly all four years of high school, so that’s how I ruled out working in a medical field because although I did enjoy the volunteer work, the stakes are way too high in that job and the hours are 😬😬

I also did internships! I did a sales and marketing internship during the summer after my freshman year. For my fellowship I mentioned earlier, I worked in business administration and client relations. And in the summer after my junior year, I worked at a big 4 firm in IT accounting / cybersecurity, and they extended a job offer at the end of my internship, which I accepted 💕

I wasn’t really confused in any subjects, but I hated abstract math, organic chemistry, and engineering physics the most 😅 I’m still lowkey salty that I had to take those for engineering and now they’re all useless because I didn’t need them for my business majors 🤧

I hope this is helpful for you, lovebug!! 💖 I know picking a major is super hard, so please feel free to send in another ask if you have any more questions! And I’m so glad my previous answers were useful for you :’) I wish you the best of luck, honey bee 🐝💛

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