Coming into college as a freshman is terrifying. During welcome week, you are expected to give the “college introduction” which includes your name, major, and where you’re from to everyone you meet. So, basically, you give a mini speech about yourself a couple hundred times that week. As you listen to everyone’s major, you just think they all have their lives put together. But, in reality, that is rarely the case.

I started my college career as a Post Secondary Enrollment Student (PSEO) at a local community college. All that means is that I started taking college classes when I was a junior in high school. I graduated high school with an Associates’ Degree in Liberal Arts. Being so far ahead of everyone in my age group, people automatically assumed that I was done changing majors by then. I was accepted into a state university as a Biochemistry major, but before I even started that fall, I ended up changing my major. Twice. I’m pretty sure my admissions counselor thought I was insane.

During my last semester of high school, my interests changed completely. I got interested in business so I added a healthcare management major. Then I dropped my biochemistry major but kept a pre-medicine track with my management major. Yeah, there were a lot of emails that summer.

Don’t get me wrong, it is possible to do a pre-medicine track with any major. It just takes a little more work. However, for me, I took a good look at the classes I was taking and decided that medicine is not the right track for me. I dropped all my plans that had to do with my pre-medicine track after my first semester at university.

I had to take a class the next semester called International Studies. I absolutely fell in love with that topic and everything that goes with it. I added that as a second major as soon as possible. Within that major, I needed to take a politics class that analyzed Western European Political Systems. I knew I wanted to study that as well. I added Political Science as my minor.

Over the past summer, I fell in love with studying law. That interest helped me decide to go to law school after I graduate. At least that is the plan for now.

So remember that it is OK to be undecided. It is OK to change your major. It is OK to spend more than four years on your undergraduate degree. There is no need to rush. Enjoy every second of it. Meet with your advisors; they only want the best for you. Figure out what is best for you and do not let anybody take away the validity of your career dreams.