Everyone has to pick a college major, English or history or French or chemistry or so on and so forth. Colleges usually ask you to commit to a major by the end of sophomore year. To do this important choice right, you have to have some idea as to what you are going do to make a living after graduation. Except for the very lucky and the very few who are independently wealthy, or stand to inherit some real money, you gotta make a living. You will spend much of your time, for the rest of your life, making your living. Life will be better and happier if you like your career choice. When we are little kids we all have ideas of what you want to be when we grow up, a fireman, a railroad engineer, a pilot, a nurse, a cowboy, etc. By the time we get to college, a lot of us have no idea what we want to do for a living after graduation.
Get over it. Do some research. Start with friends and family. Ask them what they do at the office. Read up on the career. Read some biographies, see if what they did sounds interesting. Pick a career that will be fun to do. Temper the fun to do with some practicality, being a Hollywood actor is good fun, but the competition is fierce and your chances of making it work are low.
After you have thought about your career, pick a major that makes you employable in that career field. Colleges offer a lot of majors that are of no use what so ever in any field at all. For example, gender studies, black studies, just about any kind of studies, sociology, art history, anthropology, won't get you a job, anywhere. Political science won't get you a job in business or industry, although it helps if you plan to go to law school, or into politics, or both. All the STEM subjects are good for employment.
College is expensive, you owe it to yourself to come out of college employable at something.
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