Truth be told, this is a question I hear a lot, from friends, colleagues, even my parents have asked me a few times.  Choosing your major is one of the toughest decisions a college student has to make. Sometimes you genuinely have no idea as to what you want to do once you graduate from college. I jumped from major to major and from this school to another and back again. I’ve been (in no particular order) a criminal justice major, a psych major, an English major, a business major and a Spanish major all in 4 years of college. Business was boring, criminal justice was depressing and psych was great until my chosen path (BS in Psych on a neuroscience track) required too much math for me to be able to handle. After many tears, sleepless nights and hours spent in professors office hours, I realised that I needed to study something that I enjoyed or I was going to burn out- and fast. Language has always been something I excelled in, regardless of what it was. I knew from my previous experiences in other majors that I enjoyed helping out other people in real time. Interpreting seemed like a good choice- I had already been doing it for most of my life. Continue reading →