I had a pretty strange set of feelings regarding this little test. I was surprised by the results; but I was expecting to be surprised by the results. From what I’ve seen. you often don’t need to be an exact match for a job major-wise to get it. In a lot of places, most of what you do for a particular line of work is learned on the job, and your education is a template and a qualification more than a guide or manual. So I really wasn’t surprised when a bunch of humanities undergrads became doctors or lawyers. Honestly if I were premed, I’d do the same thing. GPA matters a ton when you’re trying to get into med school; why sacrifice it taking calc or physics?

Personally, I don’t really have much of a plan for the rest of college. I’m taking a major I’m interested in, but my odds of being accepted into it aren’t fantastic. They aren’t bad, but it’s very far from a sure thing, far enough that I don’t feel entirely comfortable. I understand what my major entails, and I like it, so my difficulty isn’t in my decision but in my ability to follow through with said decision. Already I have a major scheduling conflict I’m trying to work out, and if I fail to do so, the boat may already be sunk. So I may be scouting out a new major myself in due time, if everything continues to conspire against me.

If I don’t get into chemical engineering, I’m not sure what I would take instead. The most obvious next choice would be just a vanilla Chem degree, which has significantly easier requirements and lies in the same world as my original choice. But I’m not sure if I want to do bench work or theoretical chemistry. I’m not even sure if I would stay in the sciences if I couldn’t do CME. I’d stay in STEM, I would just seek out something more related to the TEM, because most of the other major science fields bore me to oblivion.

The major test did surprise me, but about as much as I expected it to. It also did a wonderful job of sparking my major/scheduling anxiety which is in absolute full swing right now. I think I have a decent direction of what I want to do in college, and I don’t see myself as a chronic major swapper. I don’t have everything set in stone, but rather in wet concrete that still has pliability, but is losing the pliability fast.