This is something that really I need to talk with my parents about, but since they aren't here I thought I'd post a blog for all the wise people on LDS.net to read and maybe lend me some advice? Maybe?

Next month I get to register for classes for my first semester at BYU. Of course, I'm really excited. Finally I get to move forward rather than sit at this school where I only have the most shallow of friendships and learn hardly anything. I was excited for a while about going down the Asian Studies route, which would mean studying Chinese and Asian culture historically and contemporarily. After talking with my grandpa, however, who is a great well-known Chemist, I am having serious doubts.

So a part of me wants to find either a different major to double with or switch with, or at least a really strong minor. Although I'm not good at math, I think if I tried I could do well with it. Talking with him made me want to do Civil & Environmental Engineering or Chemical Engineering. The more I look at them, though daunting they may appear, they are practical and can be used to do a lot of good in society. I want to have an effect in the world, and I know that really I can do that with any major but I suppose growing up with a dad who is a huge success in the business world/oil industry and a grandpa who is a huge success in the Chemical world, maybe I have a different view of what success should be. It is hard to reconcile that.

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