(via travors and F Minus)

As a philosophy major, I would probably agree.

If it excites you and interests you and you can sustain that interest for more than a year or two, go for it. I have a friend who likes it enough that she switched majors, and plans on going to grad school (and has the intellectual chops to do whatever she wants).

But don’t just jump in because you can’t think of anything else to do and your current major is unbearable. That’s what I did, and it’s set off a scramble to find some grad-school degree that:

1. I’m qualified for,
2. I’m interested in, and
3. WILL GET ME A JOB AT THE END.

“Community Development” looks like a great choice - especially since it’ll dovetail nicely with my planned grad-school job - but for the longest time I’ve been utterly uncertain as to what would happen after I finished my undergrad. And being aimless meant that my grades suffered (because I couldn’t answer the question of “to what end?”) which in turn has made the whole grad-school project a lot more stressful.