※ 引述《togs (= =")》之銘言： : People attend college for several reasons. Some students attend : their dream departments out of interests, hoping that during this : four years, they can know more about the certain fields which they : have great passion for. Other students choose their majors according : to the rank of them in college. Some of these students may, if lucky enough, : develop their interests in their majors in the long run. Others : may, however, wind up transferring to another major and thus : waste several years studying the subjects opposite to their zest. : Still some, who don't even know what their true callings are while : listing the priority of their choices of school, are forced to : make the decision without thinking it through. These students may : waste even longer time to discover what their ambitions are. Therefore, : to refrain students from wandering about what their interests are : after selecting their majors, is there any policy Department of Education : can draw up to help students? What you are talking about has been already discussed many years. As a college student myself right now, my opinion is just like yours. In my own experience, few high school students really think through their future, including me. They know what field is more famous, more useful, and frankly to say, more profitable, but speaking of their career, they know nothing. Several departments are popular nowadays, such as medicine, engineering, law, business, because these departments can make you have more money than others after you graduates. We can't deny eveyone has their own interests but does this word "interests" mean their future "career" or "job"? Intersts in leisure time can't be your job, at least not so profitable if you are not the top of the field. For example, you can say you like playing guitar but seldom people wants to be a guitar teacher. High school students, or more generally, teenagers nowadays don't think that far about how to manage their life. Since people have good economic condition, all they do is going to school, taking the exam, feeling free after it and going home to play computer. They seldom worry about how they gonna do if they don't have money. What kind of job do they want to do in the future? They probably ponder it only before the college entrance exam. I was thinking about studying Biology science. Soon after taking the entrance exam, I doubted whether this choice is right. I found a bunch of information on the web which says biotechnology is not so well-developed in Taiwan. I change my first choice from Biology science to pharmacy. I wouldn't say I have "interests" in biology and chemistry, which are the two crtical parts in pharmacy field. I can just tell you I can do them better than math or physics. "Interests" represents the activity makes me relax in my free time, not my JOB. I believe there are tons of students resemble with my condition. In this heavy pressure during school life, you can hardly find out what you like to do in the "academic" field. Even if we want to realize a certain academic field, we have little information. It took me many hours to confirm how prosperous and what it's like in the pharmacy field in Taiwan. When I looked up the department of pharmacy in my college, it just said innane word like "We culture excellent experts in pharmacy." And when I asked my parents, only they said is "Why don't you study medicine?(meaning they want me to be a doctor)" --

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