There’s so much pressure on college students to choose a major and minor “before it’s too late”. The best advice I’ve received is to challenge myself, to take subjects that I’ve never taken and to experiment with my interests.

Although this is good advice, I’ve never really had to follow it. Luckily for me, I know there’s only one thing that see myself doing, and one thing I’m very, very passionate about: writing.

To me, writing is extremely familiar. I’ve been making up stories in my head since I was two and writing them down since I learned my ABC’s. It’s the only thing that anyone has ever told me that I’m good at, and I’ve embraced that. I won’t say that I have any special talents, and I can’t say I’m a talented writer, either. I’m still learning. However, writing is my oxygen. It’s all I know, it’s all I care to know. Reading goes hand in hand with writing, and it’s another thing that I can’t live without.

So for years now, I’ve decided that my major would be English. I’m the few of my friends that actually knows where I want to go with my life. I see myself working at a publishing company and writing novels on the side. I see it as a happy, hopeful future with me doing what I know and love.

Then comes the topic of a college minor. Up until recently, I had no idea what it would be. I was invincible to pressure for a college major, mainly because I’ve always known what I want to do. Choosing a minor is a different story, though.

I thought long and hard about what I wanted to minor it. The truth is, if I can’t see myself writing, I can’t see myself at all. There was nothing else that interested me.

So I thought, which area of study could go hand-in-hand with writing, but that can also be a good area to fall back on if writing doesn’t work out?

The answer is psychology.

With psychology I’ll be better able to create characters that are realistic and interesting. It’ll be much easier to find an answer to, “What would this character do in this situation?”. It’s even better that I’m actually interested in the subject.

I don’t necessarily know if majoring in a subject I’m familiar with and minoring in a subject that intrigues me is a good idea, but it seems pretty logical in my head…

I’m still a freshman though, so I still have approximately 6 and a half semesters to go.

A lot can happen in six and a half semesters, and a lot can change.