Choosing Majors

We just went through a very important phase of university life: choosing the major. Why I say it is crucial is because once the major has been decided it becomes one of your life-long label. I believe a lot of us had a strenuous days in major choosing duration.
Before I came to Singapore, I am very sure that I will choose engineering as my faculty. But after I came here, when I was scrutinizing all the choice available, there was not seem to be any one that is attractive to me. This situation happened again when I see the majors provided by science and computing. I was in dilemma even feeling very vague about which faculty I will enroll to. I did not know any background or details of any major. All I had in mind were some vague conception for every major.
I call this “ lack of prevision”. I think it is because we were really in short of the basic knowledge of every major. It seems impossible for us to acknowledge every aspect, inclusive of what to learn, how to learn, career perspective and so on, of every major. Because of this unclearness, of course, we can not easily make up our minds.
Apart from the shallow reason of uncertainty, I think the educational system in China is more likely to be blamed. At grade two in high school, we are divided into two streams for academic direction, one is sciences and the other one is arts. This is the essential reason why we are prevented from all the knowledge as preparation for the future choice. We only know one specific area of knowledge, either science or arts. So when choosing majors in university, we are not ready to make a wise and accurate decision.
This is not something we can change. After all, all the Chinese students are going through like this. My suggestion is that we really need to think twice before we make the decision for our future.