高考选择专业

The 13 Biggest Mistakes in Picking a Major

对很多学生而言，选择专业可能是他们大学生涯所做的最为重要的学业决定。然而，它也充满了众多的错误，从错误的时间到错误的缘由。所以，这里学生在选择专业时所犯的最常见、代价最重的错误（我们还会拿出自己最好的建议来避免犯错）。

For many students, picking a major is the single biggest academic decision they'll have to make in their college career. It's also the one most fraught with mistakes, ranging from picking at the wrong time to picking for the wrong reasons. So, here's a baker's dozen of the most common—and most costly—mistakes students make in picking a major (and our best advice on how to avoid them):

1.选择专业过早。在很多学校，学生很早就要求在大学第一年的入学介绍或是更早的时候做出专业选择。由你的导师——一位教授保证能够尽快拿到学位：所有的这些好处被吹嘘为只属于那些选择迅速选择专业的同学。但学院和高中不一样，在高中你所喜欢的课程可能和你在大学所选择的课程很不一样——而且会让人很失望。

我们的建议？至少在大学的前两年不要选择专业。

1. Picking a major too early. At many schools, students are under pressure to declare a major as part of first-year orientation or early in the first year. Guaranteed places in classes, an actual professor as your adviser, a quicker trip to a degree: All of these are benefits touted to students who pick early. But college is really different from high school, and subjects you liked in high school might well be a lot different—and a lot less pleasant—at the big U.

Our advice? Remain undeclared for at least the first two years of college.

2.在考虑所有的选择后做出选择。有些学校，尤其是大型的州立大学，可选的专业超过了100个。不要在考虑过所有你感兴趣的专业之前做出选择。不要因为你不是很清楚什么是免疫学专业（immunology），古生物专业（paleobiology），国际发展研究专业（international development studies），民族音乐学（ethnomusicology）或是土木...