As the semester starts to wind down, I am getting more and more concerned on what I am going to do with my major. I am currently a Biology major with the Pre-Med track, but just not one-hundred percent sure if this is what I really want to do. It scares me that I am about to sign up for classes again and I truly don’t even know what I should or want to be taking. It occurred to me last week what I have always really wanted to do. Teaching and helping others has always been a passion of mine. I even told my parents in elementary school that I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. Yes, I know this makes me look like a boring child since it wasn’t anything awesome like an astronaut, but I really just wanted to be a teacher. This dream continued in middle school where I also first became interested in the medical field. As I transitioned through my high school years, I lost my gut feeling about being a teacher and decided to enroll at Carolina as a Biology major hoping to one day advance to medical school. As I was thinking about this the other day, I realized I never really had strong reasons for why I all of a sudden dropped my dream as a future teacher. I thought to myself, is it the money? Is it the lifestyle? Even though I feel being well-off is important in order to support a future family, this shouldn’t affect my career decision. I am currently in contemplation over whether to major in education, or just receive my Master’s after I graduate. Luckily, I am setting up an appointment to talk to my advisor soon. I feel like my life decisions for my future career are over the place, but I hope one day soon I will just be able to decide. I feeling like being a teacher could open a lot of doors for further occupations. Even though I would be more well-off as a doctor, my gut feeling of being a teacher and making an impact on a child’s life is more important to me right now.
Also, is anyone going to the Spring Football Game Saturday afternoon? I am cheering at it and am already excited for the fall season. I hope everyone had a good weekend!
I know where you are coming from. I felt the same way about my major and what I wanted to do after I got out of college. I am also a biology major and for a while I thought about changing it to business or exercise and sports science, but after thinking about it for a while and doing to research I found out that if you don’t know exactly what you want to do biology major is a pretty good major to be, there is so much you can do with it once you get out of college. So I think I am going to stay a biology major until I know exactly what I am going to do.
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