Grown-ups never seem to be able to make up their minds about the future. When you're a 5-year-old, you can be "anything you want to be." When you're a 14-year-old, you start getting condescending chuckles about wanting a career in professional dance, or as a writer, or as a radio DJ. And when you're in college, they really start to give you whiplash: study what you're passionate about. Study something that makes a lot of money. Study something that contributes to society. Study what your heart tells you to. Study what you're good at. For every major you could possibly have, there are 10 arguments for it and 20 against it. But you know what? Screw it.

This is not "The Bachelor." You don't have to constantly prove that you're here for the right reasons. You're not soulless for wanting to make a lot of money. You're not an idiot for wanting to follow your passions. Your major is not a barometer for whether or not you're a good person.

The way I see it, your major is just a deal. It's one you make with yourself, and often with your parents, and sometimes with your college, about what will make you happy. It's not a "perfect fit," it's you accepting some drawbacks and some bonuses on your way to a life that also won't necessarily be a perfect fit.

Take the "sociopath business major," for example. First of all, they could be passionate about business, and that's great. Second of all, even if they don't live for board meetings and stock prices, they are not sacrificing their personal happiness for giant cartoon bags with dollar signs on them. Maybe it's really important to them that they're financially stable, so even if their job is a little boring, they make that compromise in exchange for the happiness that comes from knowing they have health insurance. Maybe they really, really want five kids, and this is how they're going to support them.

Because honestly, it's not a dollars-to-passion scale. You do not have to pick a side. Your major does not define which side you picked. There are a bunch of variables, and a bunch of ways any given major could turn out, and your path in college is an individual choice.

You could, for instance, be a theater major who is more willing to live very frugally post-college than to stop acting. It's a lot of work, and has lower odds of making a lot of money, but other factors, like being able to pursue a passion and having the option to teach young actors later, make it worth it.

Or you could be aiming to be a physician's assistant, because you love the medical field, but you would rather spend your mid-20s getting married and having kids than grinding through medical school. You could be a finance major who wants to work in a high-intensity Wall Street scenario for 20 years, then have enough money to scale your work way back and relax with your partner for the rest of your life.

Everyone's different, all right? If having regular hours will make you happier than making more money, that's OK. If really enjoying your job will make you happier than having the money for a boat, that's OK. If being the breadwinner while your spouse runs a nonprofit dog shelter in your backyard will make you happier than living on nothing and helping them with the dogs, that's OK.

And if you have no clue what you're doing with your life, that's OK. If the deal you're making with your major is "I don't know what's happening, but these classes don't make me want to die," that's OK.

You decide what's worth it. Me and my creative writing degree look forward to spelling your name wrong on your latte in 10 years.