Over half of college students change their majors sometime within their first year in school. Some people take a class in advanced algebra only to realize that their great passion for math isn’t so great anymore. Others get bored with a major constantly and switch from nursing to equestrian studies to history in the same year. Some people know fairly quickly if they want to change; others debate changing for months or years before they finally decide. Here are ten signs (tongue-in-cheek, of course) that you probably should switch your major:
When it's time to change majors in college
1. You’re an education major and your teacher uses you as an example of a problem student. He always has the other students practice explaining basic concepts to you when they teach lessons in class.
2. You’re a math major and, in the middle of an algebra lecture, you raise your hand and ask your teacher why he’s using letters instead of numbers. You say you only ever learned to add with numbers, not letters like x and y.
3. After a test in a class in your major field, your teacher posts the grades of everyone in the class but you. He asks you to see him in private immediately after class.
4. You’re a computer science major and after a semester of classes you still don’t know how to send an email. You had to ask a friend to show you where to plug in your mouse.
5. You’re a journalism major and can’t spell the word “journalism.” You’re taking the most basic freshman English class for the third time. Worst of all, Microsoft Word popped up a message saying it is unwilling to correct any further errors after the number of mistakes you have made.
6. You’re a music major and, after the teacher goes through the notes from A to G, you ask, “Where’s H? And H flat and H sharp?” When the students sight-sing notes together, he asks you not to sing and says he’ll work with you later but never does.
7. You’re a criminal justice major and are constantly thinking up ways to circumvent the law and get away with devious deeds. You’re probably not the person to be enforcing the law.
8. You’re an art major and turn in a portfolio from your first year projects. Your teacher asks if you got your portfolio mixed up with scribblings in a notebook from kindergarten.
9. While taking a CPR class, you are about to administer CPR to a dummy. In the scenario, he will die if you do not give him immediate attention. Your cell phone goes off and you say, “Hold on a second, buddy. I have to take this call.”
10. You’re a culinary arts major and cannot cook any food without it turning black and causing smoke to fill the entire kitchen. You can’t count all the times you’ve caused the fire alarm to go off, forcing everyone to evacuate.
OK, so maybe the signs aren’t this dramatic. But sometimes people end up in majors they probably should not be in. Don’t be afraid to change a major and try something new. Feel free to give our college search engine a spin!
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