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In reply to the discussion: About college majors. A lot of people blame students for choosing impractical majors [View all]bluestate10
(10,942 posts)The deciding factor when a teen makes a college decision is doing something they love. I made my decision on my technical career when I was a 15 year old. Once I made my decision, I tailored my training toward meeting my goal. The sanest choice that a young person that is unsure can make is to join an organization like the Peace Corps, or simply work menial jobs. People that understand and appreciate the power of their time in college end up in careers that they love being in. One of my superior students, smarter than I was, during my upper devision years in college was a woman that had gotten a History degree, bounced around for a few years and came to engineering in her mid twenties. She seemed old to me given that I was more than a half decade younger, but she was focused on her education, knew where she wanted to go and didn't let minor issues deter her.