{"id":1871,"date":"2021-10-25T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2022-06-02T10:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T14:49:45","slug":"should-i-switch-my-major","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/2021\/10\/25\/should-i-switch-my-major\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Switch My Major?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This post goes out to all those who are unsure about their majors, are currently\u00a0 undeclared, or feel stuck within the major they have picked because they don\u2019t want to end up behind on their four-year plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My freshman year, I lived in Printy, the beloved dorm that countless students have come to call home for a part of their time at Cedarville. Printy is a unit-style dorm, with eight girls in each unit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of the eight girls in my unit, six of us switched our majors at least once. Myself included.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019m here to tell you that while you shouldn\u2019t question every decision to death, it is OK, perfectly normal, and very common to question your major at some point in your academic career \u2026 and many times, it is worth considering changing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Storytime<\/b><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1885\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1885\" class=\"wp-image-1885 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247.jpg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?resize=250%2C333&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?resize=120%2C160&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_6247-scaled.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1885\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of my PWID friends &amp; I!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I came into Cedarville having completed my general education requirements at community college in high school, thus entering as a sophomore. I am graduating a year early this coming May (cue the tears). So when I began contemplating switching my major from linguistics, I was initially very unsure.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have always had a heart for missions, ministry, languages, and teaching. My mom was the first to encourage me to look into becoming certified in TESOL, or Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, so I decided to come into Cedarville as a linguistics major minoring in TESOL.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, even before I had taken any true linguistics classes, I had some doubts about my direction. While I was passionate about ministry and languages, I wasn\u2019t sure if zeroing in on that was how I wanted to spend my three years at Cedarville University and life beyond graduation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next to my faith, writing has always been one of my greatest passions, and I longed to combine the two. Little did I know that the Lord placed me in the units of an amazing RA named Lauren who was a professional writing and information design (PWID for short)\u00a0 major. She and another one of my Printy sisters, also a PWID major named Lauren, were incredibly influential in encouraging me to consider and eventually switch to their major. They saw my heart for writing, design, and nonprofit ministry, and thought that their major was a perfect fit for me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I had to drop my TESOL minor to fit in my PWID classes in the three years I am here, but my dream is to become TESOL certified after I graduate, but personally, I wanted to find a major more specific to my passions for writing and design. I could not be more grateful that I did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, you\u2019ve gotten this far in the post. Chances are, you\u2019re now seriously considering making a little switch. If so, read on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Meet With Your Advisor\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1882 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703.jpg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?resize=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?resize=250%2C333&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?resize=120%2C160&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/9E468A26-A676-43EA-A67D-53CD4FC7C703-scaled.jpg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, you may be feeling empowered and ready to submit a \u201cmajor change request\u201d form, but hang on a second. Let me preface this by stressing just how important it is for you to meet with your advisor before you switch your major.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You may think you have your plan figured out right now, but there are things like internships, capstones, pre-reqs, and other requirements that make it crucial for you to talk through your decisions with this qualified individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Don\u2019t worry that your advisor won\u2019t be on your side. Yes, they may want to keep you in their program because they don\u2019t want to lose students and love getting to pour into you themselves. But I can promise you right now that your advisor, along with the other faculty at Cedarville, want the best for you, and they will certainly do everything in their power to help you reach a place where you feel peace about your program of study.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I was a linguistics major, my advisor was the only current faculty member in the linguistics department. While she did put in her two cents about linguistics and did a little last talk-up of the linguistics program, she heartily encouraged me to follow where I believed the Lord was leading me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes time to switch your major, simply go to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mycu.cedarville.edu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">myCU<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and search for \u201cmajor change request.\u201d As I said above, it is critical that you wait for an advisor\u2019s approval, but this is an easy and quick process. You can also add or remove concentrations, minors, and other specifications in this part of the myCU portal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Prayer: The First Move<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1880\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238.jpeg?resize=700%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?resize=700%2C933&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?resize=250%2C333&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?resize=1536%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?resize=120%2C160&amp;ssl=1 120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG_2238-scaled.jpeg?w=1800&amp;ssl=1 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, this is the end of the blog post, but I can\u2019t close without mentioning the power of prayer when making decisions. Guess what? You may feel like you have many decisions on your plate right now, but buckle up, because there will only be more coming your way throughout your life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the fact that we have so many decisions to make in our lives can be very anxiety-inducing (believe me, as a senior, I understand), the Lord has used stressful times in my life, as well as other seasons, to prove His faithfulness to me when I come to Him in prayer. Yes, God is the King of the Universe, but He wants us to come to Him with our brokenness, worries, and fears, and He loves to meet our needs with His fullness. God won\u2019t always answer our prayers in the way we want Him to (although many times, He does), but the beauty of prayer is that it aligns our hearts with the very heart of Jesus and gives us a new perspective and peace that passes all understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No matter what is on your mind today \u2013 switching your major, passing an exam, missing home, navigating a relationship with a friend \u2013 the Lord has promised to be with you and to sustain you. Claim the promise David declares about his God in Psalm 139:5, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This post goes out to all those who are unsure about their majors, are currently\u00a0 undeclared, or feel stuck within the major they have picked because they don\u2019t want to end up behind on their four-year 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