{"id":6694,"date":"2018-04-27T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/?p=6694"},"modified":"2018-04-17T19:26:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T23:26:01","slug":"if-you-switch-majors-you-will-not-graduate-on-time-l-my-story-chapter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gcc.edu\/insider\/2018\/04\/27\/if-you-switch-majors-you-will-not-graduate-on-time-l-my-story-chapter-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth Busted: If You Switch Majors You Will Not Graduate on Time, Chapter 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was not long into my second semester of college that I realized that I was again in a weird position. What is business management and why am I majoring in it? It was a good thing that at this point I was taking Principles of Management to find out. This only led me more astray though. I was again in the situation of, \u201cWhat is this major and why am I in it if I do not know what I can do with it or if I even want to be a manager?\u201d So, again I went in search of my calling. This second semester of college I took various types of business and economics classes trying to find my place in this big crazy world. Nothing \u201cdid it\u201d (whatever \u201cit\u201d is) for me. I was forced to stay on this business track until I found what I wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first semester of my sophomore year that I found \u201cit.\u201d I was in Principles of Accounting with Professor Stone and I was not sure what it was but I was convinced that this \u201cit\u201d was in fact the \u201cit.\u201d At the end of that semester I decided to drop the business management major and pick up accounting (if you have not kept count until this point, this was my third different major). I continued on second semester of sophomore year as an accounting major and then into my junior year. I grew to appreciate the field and enjoy it more and more. That appreciation has led me to now, my second semester of my junior year, and I am still an accounting major.<\/p>\n<p>Along this winding journey of major changes and confusion it was important for me to keep in mind my current position and what classes I needed to take to graduate on time, but this was the easy part. All three of my past and current advisors made this part of switching majors easy for me. They told me my current state and what I needed to take to graduate on time and even gave me pointers of how to spread the course load to minimize stress and maximize the value. I cannot stress enough that this was the easy part. You will figure it out, you will fit the classes that you need in. I am currently attempting to get a degree in accounting but to also acquire as close to 150 credits (128 credits is all that is required to graduate) as possible so that I can sit for my Certified Public Accountancy Exam (CPA Exam). I have made the classes fit, and so can you. No matter who you are, whether you switch majors six times or you do not switch majors at all, if you commit to finishing in four years (or five or six, whatever pace is most ideal to you) you can do it. In my journey to achieve 150 credits I have mapped out my schedule so that I will graduate with 146 credits. If I can do it, the kid who did not know what he wanted to do with his life and switched majors twice, then you can do it too!<\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story is to have faith and meet with your advisors. It is funny how things come full circle. Did you notice how faith was one of the first things to come up when looking at how most people do not know what they want to do with their lives? This is because this faith is what allowed me and allows us as Christians to be joyful in times where we freak out because we have no idea of what we could do with our major and in times where we do not think that we can graduate on time. Faith is the overlapping factor. As Philippians 1:6 says, \u201cbeing confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus\u201d This walk, and this mindset of trusting in God that he will lead us to where we need to be has led me to being a junior accounting major, somewhere I would have never thought I would be as a senior in high school. So, have faith and God will lead you. We, as humans, do not know what we want to do with our lives because our lives here on Earth are in hindsight not for us, they are for a bigger purpose which we may one day fulfill in Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in hearing more about my story or simply want to just personally contact me about any of your specific worries feel free to at gosstd1@gcc.edu. I would be glad to help a worried younger high school me build up the courage to do things that I never did and to help you succeed to your fullest potential! God bless!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was not long into my second semester of college that I realized that I was again in a weird position. What is business management and why am I majoring in it? It was a good thing that at this point I was taking Principles of Management to find out. This only led me more astray though. 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