My choice of majors in college story was an interesting one. I went to a military college and for years had wanted to go into the military upon graduation (after three years of trying to get in, I finally gave up, due to medical reasons). I started out as an electrical engineering major, but as a member of the honors program at the school was put into honors calculus. I had rocked algebra and trig in highschool, but only did middlingly well in calculus, so I was in WAY over my head with honors calc. After realizing that I'd have to take years of honors calc, I dropped engineering...and switched to political science. Picked up criminal justice my second semester in school, then picked up history as my third major spring of my sophomore year.
...And then realized at the end of my junior year that there weren't any real job opportunities that I was interested in in any of those fields. So, throwing it all to the wind upon graduation, I was a swim coach for two years, then got an MBA and am now an IT/financial management contractor. Four years of taking 24 hours a semester and having zero life down the drain, in terms of how they have benefited me in the professional world. Well, I take that back--I wrote a LOT for those three majors, so I'm pretty proficient at writing these days.
Go figure.
