How many things does one usually major in college?
Most people only have one major in college. Some people do end up with two majors, but most schools require you to have a good reason to want more than one. You can get a minor in another subject as well, but the usefulness of a minor is up for debate. Your best bet is to figure out the one major you want and put your efforts toward that.
Should I still do things in college that are unrelated to my major?
Nothing wrong with venturing outside of your major a little. If you enjoy dancing you should do it. A lot of people minor in things completely unrelated to their major simply because they enjoy it and want to gain a little more knowledge in the subject, even though it won't necessarily be of any use in the workforce. Your college experience doesn't have to revolve just around your major. You can join clubs related to teaching but you don't have to ONLY join clubs related to teaching if you don't want to. Have some fun!
What college major should I go into?
It is not an easy decision, because I feel that you are genuinely passionate about both of these areas.I really cannot recommend a perfect decision here.But I would like you to keep one thing in mind.Your major is only one, and usually less important, factor in your choice of a future career.In my experience, only a few people found jobs/careers that are in perfect correlation with their majors.Even in my own career, I keep doing different things, that are mostly unrelated to my major at the University (both for my Bachelor's and Master's degrees).I would like you to keep focus on your career.Unless you decide to go to the Grad school, the employers outside of the academia have less and less interest about your major or particular qualifications you have. They are interested in skills. They want someone with proven results of completed projects.The degree and the major are more of the technical factor.Since I feel from your question details that you do have a motivation to design your own career, I would suggest that the choice of major should not be on your priority list. Any major you choose will be OK. The more important question is how to start learning skills you need for your career.Hope this helps. Keep in touch on any questions and your learning progress.Thanks for the A2A, Justin.
Why do so many people major in stupid useless things in college?
The following majors are useless and worthless unless you know someone that can pull strings for you: Fashion, English, Art, Music, History, Art History, Psychology, Chemistry, Philosophy, Political Science, Business, Criminal Justice, Sociology, General Studies, and especially Teaching. The only majors with which you may find a job are: Engineering, Nursing (if your lucky), something in the health field, or MAYBE Accounting. In all of the useless majors I mentioned, I can almost guarantee that 95 out of 100 people graduating with a degree in that will end up flipping burgers for a lifetime.
Should we be required to take courses in college that are unrelated to our major? Why or why not?
No, they should not. Students have different needs and desires and thus enter college for many different reasons. As adults, students should be free to pursue the types of education that they desire based on these reasons and to assess the value of a liberal education for themselves. The need and desire for a liberal education is something that is going to differ from student to student. Some students may not be able to afford the extra time and money needed to fulfill general education requirements (I believe IGETC is 11 courses). Other students may simply not consider the cost to be worth the benefits. Once again, as adults, students should be free to decide this for themselves.Now, don't take this to mean that I don't consider liberal arts to be valuable, because I certainly do. However, in the U.S., children already spend thirteen years receiving a liberal education, so by college, the marginal value of an additional year or two of liberal education is going to have diminished. Take English for example. By college, I was already very good at writing essays. I didn't really learn anything new and spent the class applying my essay writing skills to a handful of stories (some of which I had already read). Did I gain anything from the class? Sure, exercising critical thinking skills by analyzing stories is always beneficial. Was the class worth the time and effort? Probably not. The class wasn't much different than high school English. Additionally, one of my hobbies is writing answers on Quora, so I regularly spend time exercising my analytical writing skills sans English classes. Thirteen years is a long time. If an adequate liberal arts education can't be given in that amount of time, then general education needs to be fixed in K-12, not handed off to college.Schools, though, should be free to require some general education electives if they wish to do so but should not be mandated to do so. Students and employers will then be free to take this into consideration when looking at different schools and accounting for how much they value a liberal education.
College-life, major question?
You'll be able to enjoy the college experience with a major of nursing for the first two years. I say this because the first two years you are going to be taking the "basic" or "general" or prerequisite courses that are needed to take more advanced classes in your junior and senior year. If you have excellent time management skills, stay on top of your assignments, and complete them all in a timely manner, you should have no problem hanging out with friends, going to sports games, meeting new people and just loving life. One thing about college is that you often have a lot of down time between classes because you make the schedule that you want to follow. You might have a class at 9am on Monday morning and your next class is at 2:30 in the afternoon. Well that gives you a lot of time to hangout with friends, eat lunch with friends, do some homework and get ready for your next class. Other days you're going to be busy all day with all your classes back to back to back and have no time during the day to meet up and hang out. Most of the time the sporting events are on the weekends and if you have all your assignments done you can schedule time to go and watch a game. When you get into your junior and senior years of college for nursing you'll be taking your major classes and you'll be in the hospital doing clinical's from maybe (7am - 3pm) and then have classes that same day at maybe 5pm. This is where it gets tough and you'll have to really be selective on what you want to do with your schedule. The amount of free time that you have is now drastically reduce and your social life may not be what it once was, compared to the first two years of college. However, you can still plan events with friends and hang out, most likely this will be on the weekends. Blessings