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As a high school student, you probably have heard what college is like, but how do you know what to truly expect? The unknown is what sets your nerves on end and probably makes you break out in a sweat. Listening to what your fellow high school students are saying may not be the smartest route to take because you’ll have a hard time separating the facts from the myths. They’ve never been to college before so what they have to say is simply speculation. While you may have the high school system all figured out, maneuvering the waters of college is completely different. Probably one of the biggest misconceptions is that you have to know what you want to major in before you step foot on your college campus.

Deciding What to be When You Grow Up

It’s time to set the record straight. You do not have to know what you want to major in on your first day of college. The beauty of the college system is that the first couple years your class credits go toward earning your associate’s degree, which allows you to take classes as part of your experiment to figure out what you want to be when you grow up.

Yes, there are classes that you are required to take to acquire this degree, but there is some leeway in your options. So if you want to dabble in psychology, you can take a class or two to see if this is something that intrigues you. Maybe you’ve always wanted to be a lawyer so you take on some criminal justice classes to get your feet wet only to discover that you can’t stand this area of study.

The point is that you have the first two years of your college education to figure out what is you want to do in life. You don’t have to have all of the answers from the start. Take the opportunity to match your interests with your studies to see if it’s a career path that may be worth pursuing.