Have You Decided What To Be When You Grow Up?

Every fall, millions of high school seniors like me are asked to make one of the biggest decisions of their lives: choosing a college major.

It seems simple enough—we just need to do something that we love! But I’ve always found it a little unfair that we’re expected to know what we want to do for the rest of our lives at the wise, seasoned age of seventeen. Frankly, I don’t even know what I want to pack for lunch, let alone what my 10-year plan is.

My dad always jokes that he’s 62 years old and still doesn’t know what he wants to be when he grows up. My fellow students and I feel the same way. We’re all still finding our path.

The numbers prove it too. Estimates vary, but a minimum of 30% of college students change their major at least once before they graduate. That means almost a thi