I am a very indecisive person when it comes to my future, but I do not view this as a bad thing. I think that decisions that are to affect you for the rest of your life should be thought over thoroughly.
Applying to colleges I applied to be an engineering major. I looked at a variety of sized schools, all the way from private schools with just 5,000 students to large universities with over 50,000 students. I went on campus tours up and down the east coast. The first school I was accepted to was York College, it was a smaller school with a new engineering program that I was excited to see. I immediately declared I would be going there as the excitement of college had overwhelmed me and I basically said yes to the first place that got back to me. But, after some thinking, I thought that I should explore my options, so I flew all the way down south to look around the University of Alabama.
This was the place for me I thought, it was large they had a great sorority system and were very much into football, and I was accepted to the engineering program. Like York, I immediately committed and said I was going there. A month went by I had paid some fee to say I'd go, but I started thinking again, I hate the heat, Alabama was so far away from my family, and I knew no one there. I started to worry that I was making a mistake so I talked to my parents and on the last day to decide I up and changed to go to Virginia Tech.
Going to Virginia Tech was probably the best decision I have made, but my indecisiveness did not end there.
I came in as an engineering major and I was ecstatic, I love math and physics and I thought, "Yeah, I can totally do this." I studied engineering for about one year and getting into the time where you decide you specialty I just thought, "I don't want to do this." I called my parents explained that engineering was not for me and I started to explore other majors, first it was HNFE, human nutrition, food, and exercise, I liked it a lot but it just still wasn't me. Then, I looked into graphic design, and shocker, it was still not for me. One more try and I looked into communications, nope not this one.
Finally, I found this major called residential design, a major in the liberal arts department that is basically a mix of interior design, architecture, and business and this one was right for me. So lets recap, I went from engineering to science, and art to communications, and finally landed on a mixture of architecture and business.
Boy, was that a crazy ride.
The whole process of figuring out what you want to do for the rest of your life is so stressful. Through the whole process, I constantly wished that I could have been one of those people that just knew what they wanted to do. Looking back on it now though I am incredibly grateful. I realized that I did not like what I was doing and decided to change my path. I learned so much about what I do like and don't like and it helped me figure out what I want in life.
You should never settle.
If you do not like your major, you can change it, it will not ruin your life to be indecisive. It is good to be unsure of something so big in your life, and I encourage you to explore all of the opportunities around you.
