Did you know you've wanted to do it since you were a child? Or did you know too late or became a super senior? What helped you choose your major?

Figured it out in May of grade 11. Because of the program I chose, had I decided any later, I likely would have had to victory lap it. It gave me 9 months to make a portfolio and it was still down to the wire. Hahah. Indeed, most people in my year are NOT my age. Either victory lapped it or did a year (or two) somewhere else.

Grade 12 was HECTIC. Abandoned most of my extra-curricular activities and said fu-k you to a lot of friends whose drama I didn't have time for anymore.

I ended up choosing to major in Industrial Design and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. I was introduced to it at a University Fair that they hold downtown every year.

Initially when I was in high school I was really trying to go into Foreign Language (Japanese) but decided I needed something else. I chose my major according to what I love to do. Since I am very passionate about cooking, and have interest in science, I found a disciplinary subject that married to two - Culinology (Culinary Technology) and now I'm going to go for my B.S. in Food Science Culinology Option. The benefits of this career definitely outweighs that of being a Chef working in laborious conditions both in pay and physical demand. The bottom line with choosing a major is to find something that you want to do and if its going to make you happy doing it - You also have to be realistic about it.

i figure this is what i want to be when a nasa guy came to talk and it becomes my motivation.

however my precious dream had always wanted to be a musician.

but i'm doing double major, astronomy (science) and information system (business).

i honestly dont know why i picked what i did, i was told it was fairly easy..and doesnt take long to get a degree in it so thats why. Turned out those people are wrong and this shyts harder then what i thought.

For me, it was right under my nose. In college I was always looking up articles and spending hours reading about modern China's political environment and economy...and ignoring everything else about it.

When it came down to choosing my major, I took a few Poli Sci classes and fell in love with Comparative Politics, and jumped into my Poli Sci major soon after and I got to study what I was already reading about anyways.

thats how i got into picking my major.

its still early to tell.. so its fine with what i pick right now..

For me.. money and prestige, and interest

Less competition with girls
hopefully a job that pays well and a husband lol
and the title "engineer"
oh yea interest too *coughs* (even though journalism and literature > everything else)

knew the school i wanted to go to, didn't know for what major.....picked the hardest major i could find thinking it'd be easier to transfer out later......got lazy never bothered changing out

gg me

i tried different classes, then stuck with a subject in which I was most comfortable//wouldn't mind doing for the rest of my life

Trial and error

well before college I had figured out that humanities was my strong suit; I never did well in mathematics (always 'barely passed' honors one or two years), and same thing with chem and bio. on the other hand I loved reading about history and government.

it was a tossup my sophomore year but I decided that I loved government / political institutions and processes more than I did history and selected poli sci as my major. sure I have regrets but I've never really doubted that I love reading and learning about government.

Whatever I happened to be more interested in during my final year at school.

When I first started college, I always thought that I wanted to do something related to the medical field, so I decided to major in biology. However, I took some of the core requirement classes and realized I enjoyed the quantitative analysis classes. I was heading towards majoring in economics, and one of the required classes for that major is statistics. I took the introductory class and found it very interesting. I liked how it was so practical/useful & had applications in various fields, so I decided to be a statistics major shortly thereafter.

It's worked out well for me so far.

I just did it to cover up my relationship with my BF from my mom. Then, I fell in love with nursing. Sometimes, it's random. Mine was a random choice, an easy way out of mommy's hatred for my last BF...lol And I stuck to it. Just try!

I like cartoons, comics, and video games. 'nuff said.

Basically lol.

When you're taking general classes your freshman year, figure out what area you like and/or are good at and go from there.

i used "eeny meeny miny moe" and that led me to choose economics as my major.

when i was doing college applications last year, most of the big universities require that you have to pick your major and apply to one of their college. i didn't know what i wanted to major in yet, but i knew it was going to be in a science field (typical asian..lol). it was really stressful because i didn't know exactly, so i decided to attend a smaller college where you don't have to declare you major until the end of sophomore year. so it allows you to explore different fields during freshmen and sophomore year until declaring your major.