{"id":1028,"date":"2011-04-13T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T17:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymajors.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2020-12-16T18:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T18:41:30","slug":"who-do-i-talk-to-about-selecting-a-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/who-do-i-talk-to-about-selecting-a-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do I Talk to About Selecting a Major?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog.mymajors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>There are many people who are quite willing to talk to you about this decision. Among them are high school counselors, university academic advisors, faculty in high school and faculty in the college of your choice. University people are often very enthusiastic about meeting with students. Ask students who have already made the choice and can tell you why they selected the major they did. Sometimes, students get excited about a major because of faculty who are teaching in that discipline. These teachers are themselves so excited about what they are teaching, are such good teachers and are so enthusiastic about the prospects for their students that students get motivated to study in that field.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many people who are quite willing to talk to you about this decision. Among them are high school counselors, university academic advisors, faculty &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":6505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frequently-asked-questions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/rochelle-nicole-E9uJ65vwGmE-unsplash1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7JFoP-gA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7058,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/7058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mymajors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}