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- Overcomer
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- 3y ago
My advice is to pick something you love learning about. You will be dedicating a lot of time to it and it helps if you genuinely like what you’re putting your time into. I originally picked neuroscience but I hated it. I did not enjoy learning about it. It was just too hard. Then I switched to psychology which I LOVE. I also picked up a minor in fashion and design after taking a design course I really liked. It’s really about choosing things you know will make you happy.
I love that idea. Sometime I’d love to learn
@Overcomer Thank you
Honestly when I entered college I had no ifea what to pick. I like writing but people encouraged me to sing and at times I wanted to be a lawyer or firefighter, I was all over the palce🤣. But I decided to take a class for a potential major (Creative Writing), and I found that I didn’t think of the homework as homework. I enjoyed submitting pieces and getting feedback and people enjoying my work. It just became natural that I wanted to continue it. So my advice (if that’s what you’re looking for) would be to narrow down some possible majors and pick a course from those to try it and see. If you have absolutely no clue what you wanna do that’s ok too! Look through the courses and if you see any that interest you, try it out! Idk if everyone’s decision of what to major in is natural or not, but if the homework doesn’t really feel like homework, maybe that’s a sign! Hope this helps!
That was very helpful I’ll do that
@Overcomer I’m overthinking everything I think that way
@Overcomer Ur good a lot of people do :)
@Overcomer :)
I had originally went to university as a Bio-Med major but realized it wasn’t me. I shortly switched to Psychology because I remember really enjoying the subject when I was in high school so decided to go for it as a major 😊
I originally picked dental hygiene because I had no idea what I wanted, except to impress my parents. I quickly realized that it was not for me, i felt nauseous at the sight of anything in the mouth and I couldn't take it 🤣. My advice, take your gen eds first if you're undecided. That way, you have transferability to a 4 year uni. I am now about to graduate with two associate degrees cum laude, and then go into skincare and hopefully become a medical esthetician 🤞 Take as much time as you need to pick something you like, IT IS OKAY to not know and change your major. Wish someone would've told me that. Best of luck hun
This isn’t related to ocd just something I’ve been stressing about I don’t know what I want to major in and it’s stressing me out. All my life my parents have been telling me that I wanted to be a doctor. Yes, they were telling me what I wanted to be. And I went along with that for a long time. But now when it’s actually time to start thinking about my future I’m stuck. My brother started in Pharmacy, left to computer science. He still doesn’t know if that’s actually what he wants. I know what I want to be doing when I’m older, traveling, and I’m trying to think of a job where I can travel and make money at the same time. I still have time before I graduate high school. I know this isn’t the place to talk about this but I know that there are many adults here and I just wanted some of your advice. I also wanted to rant lol
I have decided to drop out of college now. It’s finally clear to me that it’s the only thing I can do now. I feel like such a failure tho but luckily I have the best and supportive parents that agree with my solution. I am going to lie to the people in my class and roommates about it, I just have to say I got sick or something because it’s so embarrassing to me. I suffer from depression, intense anxiety (hocd and social and generalized). I have personality problems and I look forward to go to a therapist and start recovery and start to be myself and healthy again, because it’s a very long time since I was myself and completely mentally healthy. What do you guys think about my decision? I struggle a lot with quitting college but I don’t think the program was for me anyways so that’s a good thing. I am 19 years old and I have many years to decide what I want to do, don’t I?
We often talk about the negatives, but wanting to hear some positives: What does everyone here do for work/what do you study in school? Etc.
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