I think kleinbl00 is better at advice than I am. But if I had to give advice: 1. Read Program or be Programmed or at least the summary. It's better to program than be programmed. Jaron Lanier (You Are Not a Gadget) has a few things to say on this topic as well. How to Choose a Major If you are good at everything and curious about everything, go into science and keep a toe in the humanities. The humanities discuss how to be human and how to live an examined life. But science is the frontier of endless fascination. If you have an area of passion and fascination, follow it. Follow it part-time if not full-time. If you don't, it will come back and bite you disguised as ennui, indifference, and apathy.
kb, all perspective is subjective. We can consider The delta so warned. Every year I meet depressed students who went into one major or another because it was what the family thought they should go into. Sometimes they go all the way through to a BA because it was what the family wanted and then take another road altogether as soon as they graduate. How did you go about choosing a major? Did you choose a major or did you choose life experience and then fill in the gaps via a major?
So my advice is "don't do what I did." ________________________________________ I didn't live at home for large swaths of High School. I lived at a buddy's house, slept in cars from time to time. My sister was stealing my shit and selling it to friends and my parents and I didn't get along. More than that we could get into (or not). I'd pulled a machete on my dad at one point. I didn't talk to my sister for a year and a half. And because my parents had fucked up the taxes and such pretty hard, there was no chance I'd see any money for college and no scholarships either. I was recruited early on by several liberal arts colleges. I was damn good at the English thing. And to a man I told them "I'm getting a mechanical engineering degree because if there's one thing I won't be after college, it's dependent on my parents for money. It wasn't out of the blue. I took apart my first car when I was six. By the time I'd graduated high school I'd rebuilt a dozen engines. I drove to college in a car I designed, down to the steering and brake systems. But that isn't engineering. That's seat-of-the-pants wrenching. And it took four years and countless story problems to learn that I really hate engineering. ____________________________________ On the plus side: Mechanical engineering includes fluid mechanics, which is the regime that includes acoustics. I also like music and paid for college mixing bands in clubs. I leaned towards acoustics which, long story omitted, had me as the youngest acoustical consultant west of the Mississippi. But that ended a while ago. Most of the people who do my current job have no college education whatsoever and they make just as much money as I do. I guess I got here quicker than them but I also spent ten years doing something else. In the end, I got a degree that would pay my bills that I thought I'd be good at. I was half right. Coulda shoulda woulda - had I done the liberal arts thing, I might be starving right now. Or, I might have written my first novel 20 years ago rather than four months ago. And to be clear - college was a whole 'nuther animal back then. If I were graduating in 2014? I'd rethink everything.