Classes and Major Decisions

Primrose Bloggins
3 min readOct 17, 2020

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Going through college courses means both homework and lots of stress over assignments. But there may or may not come a point when you realize that you’re not really enjoying all your class. No, I am not talking about the fact that your teacher just dumped a bunch of homework on you that is due in less than 2 weeks. In that case, you know how to manage all of it, you like the class, and you want to do well in it.

I’m talking about a class where you’re just going through the motions. You’re taking the steps necessary to get an assignment done. Your doing a process, a weekly routine that you have memorized. There is no passion, just steps to get from beginning to end. There is no enjoyment; you don’t really care. The idea of not putting any effort into these classes feels wrong because you have more academic backbone than that; yet you feel that if you could just dump those classes that it would be better. Then you could focus on the classes that you actually like; classes whose homework is so fun it does not feel like an assignment at all. They are classes that fit your passion. A passion that is different from the one you had at the beginning of your college career.

What you were interested in a year ago has shifted. Every time you go to this one class, it’s another motion in a cycle. It’s the same every time; the teacher will do this, you will do this activity, and talk about this, etc. But with the other class, the one you enjoy, you are eager to hear what the teacher will say. You like showing your class mates your work and getting feedback. Its fun to see what other students have done, how you are all progressing. It feels like a team effort ,yet, you are all doing your own assignments.

Is there a solution? Dump the one class and call it a day? No, you feel that this course of action would be virtually the same as chickening out. You don’t hate the subject completely, and you’re not doing that bad in the class. Yet, you know that the passion that you thought you had at the start of your journey has altered. What do you do then? Where do you start?

A good place to start your decision-making is to talk with your academic advisor for your major. Talk to them about how you feel about the classes you are talking, how things have changed. If you are a double major, the same idea holds. You just have two advisors to speak to. Let them give you advice and help you out. They are here to advise and help you with these kinds of decisions. When you have information from them, then you can make a more informed decision. Also realize that even in a major that you love, there will be classes that you don’t like taking.

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