What Major is Right For Me?

So far my college experience has been surprisingly good, yes it has been difficult but I have managed to deal with everything up until about a month ago. What happened a month ago? It became time to select classes for next semester, and this time we didn’t have our advisors to walk us through it and I realized that I have absolutely no clue what I want to do with my life. I’ve worked so hard to get where I am and I feel that now that I’m here, I’d a tad lost and just really didn’t think about what to do once I actually got here. They say you have a lot of time to figure it out, but that turns out to be not all that true, being that you have to take certain classes for certain majors, so you really do need to know what direction you’re going in. So I talked to a friend who was also having trouble with this quite important decision and we went to the career center together and made appointments, because I’ve found that even when you look at a major you don’t actually get to see what careers that major entails. Have any suggestions?

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

My parents have always made me see that life isn’t always perfect, and that the good comes with the bad. I have always known that there will be hard times, but me working through them and eventually conquering those difficulties is what makes me strong and what I have come to see holds me apart from other people. For some reason I just assumed that everyone was raised like that; that everyone was taught to work through hard times and not expect everything in life to be so easy. How wrong I was… when I got to SMU I was very disappointed with people my age and their expectations of life in general. I get very frustrated with people here, and all the complaining and whining when things aren’t exactly how they want. I have grown up with the attitude that you work through things that are hard, that giving up isn’t even an option. But here, everyone has lived this perfect sheltered life where they expect everything to be so easy and they expect to be totally comfortable with everything. When in reality life is about pushing through, and getting through the tough times and growing from uncomfortable situations. I wish I could give all these people a reality check because whether they like it or not they are going to have to learn to deal with things; life isn’t easy and there will be hard times that you have to learn to get through. Does anyone agree/disagree? Am I being too harsh?

Lack of Diversity

One thing I couldn’t help but notice when I got to SMU was how everyone seemed to look the same. I had thought because I was coming to a big city that there would be that eclectic range of people and a huge diversity. But boy was I wrong. It seemed like it was all the same kind of people; the same hair color, the same race, the same dress; all the same. Of course there are a few exceptions but once I looked further into the situation it seemed most of the only people of color at Southern Methodist University were here for a sport. Now, this problem is nobodies fault, no one is to blame for the lack of diversity at SMU, but I do see it as an issue that should really be looked into. And I don’t know the specifics, or even how to go about changing this problem, but I think someone should. Because one of the biggest reasons I left my small town in Florida to come out of state and to a big city was because I wanted to see something new, I wanted to meet people from all over the world and from many different backgrounds and it seems to me I could have done a better job of this staying at home. Perhaps it’s only because we are on campus most of the time, and as I get further into my education here at SMU and I explore more into the city that I will meet more people, but as of now I must admit, walking around on campus everyone is one in the same. Am I wrong? Have I not taken more things into consideration?