Why picking a major is scary

Seth Emsheimer
9/11/2017

Why picking a major is scary

It seems that by the time we as high school graduates go to college, we should already know what are major is going to be or that maybe we pick a major and we are scared that it will later be a horrible decision and will be a waste of our time.  For me, I already know what I want to major in and it is mathematics.  I would like to be a high school math teacher.  However, I'm not the best at math but I'm not the worst at it.  The scariest thing for me is will I be able to pass my calculus class and if I don't, should I keep on pursuing to be a math teacher.  Last year I was in calculus 1 in my senior year of high school,  I didn't do that well but I'm hoping that since college is not that long as high school, I will have more time to focus on that one class. At freshman orientation, our group of math / engineer majors were told by the math professors to take all these math classes and I felt that this list of classes was way more than I had thought or maybe to handle.  I try to not let fear hold me back because it is not how smart you are in order to pass a class and learn from but it is about how persistent you are.  For my other classmates who don't have a major, I don't think it's a bad thing but that they are trying to find a path that will suit them in life.