The struggle of not knowing what to do with your life is real.

Prior to college I had no idea what I wanted to study. Therefore, I took a gap year in Brazil to “find myself.” I did not discover what I wanted to study, but I did have the time of my life. Now that I am a freshman in college, this confusion has gotten ten times more confusing.

Over the course of my first year I have already changed my major two times. I went from undecided to communications and from communications to pre-business. After declaring pre-business I had to withdraw my acceptance to study abroad next semester because the program was aimed at communication students.

Now that I am a pre-business major I am questioning if that is really what I want to do. I am not interested in finance or business topics at all. The problem is that the things that I am passionate make below average income or require PhDs and quite frankly I do not have the time or the money to pursue a PhD.

So far I have debated between being a teacher, a psychologist, a business major, a communications major, and an international relations major. I also considered engineering for a while.

My advice to prospective college students is to know what you want to do before you apply to college because if you are an open major your first year will consist in taking general education (GE) courses and after you are done with those usually within your first few semesters you will have to declare a major. In my case, I finished all my GEs within my first year and I have to know what I want to do before next year so I do not get off track from graduating in four years.

I have no clue what I want to do still, but hopefully I will find out before I have to sign up for my sophomore year classes. (I probably won’t know what to do, but it’ll be okay.) So, if you’re still in high school, try to find yourself and your calling because its scary not knowing what your major is and seeing everyone else kinda, sorta having their life together.