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2 Comments on “how do u choose a college major? is it strongly related to choosing a career?”

1. 
   Windi S
   April 8th, 2010 at 5:10 pm

   Since you have to spend so much time studying the subject you choose, academic counselors in colleges typically suggest that people major in the topic that they like the most. This sometimes is related to the career they choose later on, but you can always make your major fit to a career that you would equally enjoy. This is soetimes how history majors get in to medical school (but they usually minor in biology).

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   constantreader
   April 8th, 2010 at 6:04 pm

   Your choice is more strongly related to what you’re most interested in, curious about, instinctively drawn to…the career emerges later, once you’ve found out what applications can be made of your strongest interest. Thus, an English Lit major can aim themselves at poetry, novel-writing, advertising, teaching English [to include linguistics, grammar, and all the sub-sets within Lit] or even apply your fascination with words towards aiming at law school! I’ve heard more than a few law professors sigh about what crummy writers some of their students are…just imagine, if those same law students had spent a whole bunch of their undergraduate course units on Writing Good Declarative Sentences! So go with your own flow starting in…and refine the particulars [all majors have bits & pieces of other disciplines folded into them, to say nothing of those famous 'electives' where you can swan around] as you start the upper division [i.e., last 2 years]. In other words, friend, don’t nail your shoes to the floor before you figure out what the music is playing!