{"id":26844,"date":"2024-10-01T20:07:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:19:06","slug":"how-do-you-know-if-what-major-i-want-to-do-is-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/10\/01\/how-do-you-know-if-what-major-i-want-to-do-is-the-right-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you know if what major I want to do is the right thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-1024x975.jpg\" alt=\"How do you know if what major I want to do is the right thing?\" class=\"wp-image-26834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-1024x975.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-1536x1463.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-4-2048x1950.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How do you know if what major I want to do is the right thing?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s so many different variables to balance when choosing a major. If I had to choose, I would struggle with choosing because there&#8217;s so many subjects I am interested in. I recommend talking with people you trust and making a pro \/ con list. Another exercise that could be helpful is to define for yourself what &#8220;right&#8221; means. Is &#8220;right&#8221; something you like to study? Something that will lead to a career path you are interested in? Or something else entirely?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s so many different variables to balance when choosing a major. If I had to choose, I would struggle with choosing because there&#8217;s so many subjects I am interested in. I recommend talking with people you trust and making a pro \/ con list. Another exercise that could be helpful is to define for yourself &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/10\/01\/how-do-you-know-if-what-major-i-want-to-do-is-the-right-thing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do you know if what major I want to do is the right thing?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26857,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions\/26857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}