Pursuing Your Passion: Choosing A Major

On Monday November 18, 2009, I attended a workshop entitled “Pursuing Your Passion: Choosing a Major.” The room was large, but barely over a dozen people attended this workshop which made for a very quiet, but arguable cozy environment for discussion. Once we were seated, the woman coordinating the workshop proceeded to turn on a slide projector and gave us a very basic presentation about the different majors at Baruch. All of this information can be found online, and I had already looked through it all months prior to attending this workshop. Therefore, this workshop resulted in being an exercise in redundancy for me. The special tips that were provided were no big secrets either. Doing something you like is not a brilliant new suggestion to get you far, it is common sense. After the presentation, we participated in an activity which was essentially making a list of majors and matching them to careers. I did not see the benefit of this activity, since as I said before, this information is all on the internet, but I put effort into my list regardless. All in all, this workshop was a waste of time that I can only see benefitting those to lazy to log on to a computer with internet access.