When I Get Where I’m Going
February 27th, 2008
I’ve always heard that you don’t need to know exactly what you want to major in until sophomore or junior year.
But, I was sure I knew even before college. I wanted to be a business major with a minor in youth ministry, or even a double major. First semester started out great! I had only one business class and no youth ministry classes. All of the classes were very easy, and I ended up happy and satisfied with my grades and my newfound knowledge.
I think I must have been a little overconfident when I scheduled myself 18 credits; five business classes and one youth ministry class. This was my first mistake.
Mistake number two is that about half of these classes I signed up for were math classes. And I’m not so good at math. It’s more like I’m horrible at it and feel like I’d rather just use my calculator. Statistics, algebra, and managerial accounting are all pretty mathy. So that was a silly idea.
Then, I thought it would be great to enroll in macroeconomics, even though I knew it would be difficult. I thought I could master all of these classes at the same time.
I was wrong.
After doing very poorly on three exams in two weeks, I suddenly realized that I was not very good at business. At all. Then I realized that I didn’t actually HAVE to major in business. So, I went to my adviser, told him my troubles, dropped a class, and decided maybe I should put a stop on the business major. This was a very relieving decision.
And then I realized I had no idea what to do next; no idea where to go.
I started flipping through EMU’s course catalogue, looking for something to major in, and I just really don’t know what I want to do, which isn’t a good feeling for me. So for now, I’m taking it one step at a time. I’m going to take some random classes until I find something I like, and then hopefully stick with that. Who knows, maybe I’ll end up back in business!
The moral of the story is that it is very true that you don’t need to know what you’re majoring in freshman year. You’ve got a long time. Someday, I know I’ll get where I’m going, even if I don’t know where that is yet.