Students who head off to college have a lot on their minds. Going to college is one of the most important decisions a person can make, and there is a lot to think about from the moment you get accepted into a school. You need to figure out where to live, and how much it is going to cost to live there. You need to decide if you are going to get a job while you are in school, or if you are going to take out loans, and if so, for how much. You might need to get a job and take out loans. You\’ll have to figure out how you are going to get around campus. Will you bring a car to school with you? Are you even allowed to?

In all of this chaos associated with going to school, it is easy to rush possibly the biggest decision of all. What you study while you attend college? There are a world of options to choose from, and a world of reasons to go with, or not go with, any one of them. It is of the utmost importance that you give this question due consideration, because what you choose to study can make a world of difference both in your professional life and your intellectual life, depending on what you are interested in studying and what you are in interested learning about in school.

One of the troubles with making decisions when it comes to your own education is that it is extremely difficult to know what kind of impact your decisions will have until it is too late to do anything about it. One thing that many college students fail to appreciate is that in the majority of situation, what you study in school will matter little when you get a job. Most employers just want to see that you graduated from an accredited school, that your grades and performance were good, and that you did not have any major problems while you were there. After that they are going to care a whole lot more about your professional experience than anything else.

Because of this, you end up with a lot of people who just study whatever they feel like studying, and then after school they enter the workforce getting whatever job they can. Once they have some work experience, they can make educated decisions about moving toward the job they want the most.

A major pitfall that you want to avoid is making a decision on what to study based on the starting salaries of people who get jobs in that field. There are many, many people who work for years to get a degree from a program that they find to be unbearably boring because they want a high starting salaries, but once they graduate and realize they will have to more of the same kind of work indefinitely they leave the field altogether and end up with a degree that is essentially worthless and several wasted years of effort.

A lot of these scenarios point to one conclusion–study something that you are interested in. If you\’re like most people, you\’ll have an interesting and stimulating time studying that in school, and then you\’ll go off and join the workforce afterward and figure things out from there. If what you want to be professionally requires a certain degree, and you aren\’t interested in getting that degree, you should probably think of another profession, because you most likely will not enjoy it. Above all, don\’t lock yourself into anything that you wouldn\’t want to do on a daily basis.

Author Bio: Sarah Straussman really enjoys working with parents and students to find the best SSAT prep for them. She also spends time helping out over at Testing is Easy. Her favorite subjects are quite varied, and she always finds time to write about them.

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