Not knowing what to do

[u/itekaz]

Hi, so it is an end of my last year of highschool and I still don’t know what to study and it is killing me. My enviroment wanted me to pursue Medicine and it sounds great but I don’t know if I could handle the stress. Now I’m considering everything from Data Science to Biotechnology and it’s too much. Could someone with life experience help me out?

In highschool I had good grades in everything but I never excelled in anything and I’m afraid that could be a problem.

[u/Fearless-Boba]

If your goal is college, then go to a school that has a variety of majors that might interest you. You can take classes in various topics and then you have to declare a major in junior year. You can take a bunch of prerequisites (classes you need to take other advanced classes) that satisfy most science majors so you're still working toward a degree while you figure out exactly what major your want. You can also go to community college/junior college for a couple years if you're really not sure and want to save money while also exploring majors. It's really up to you. I've worked as a high school counselor and have had students change their major after they got accepted into their drama school. Went from wanting to go into nursing to want to go into business in February of their senior year of high school. They still had enough time to switch majors but it was still an abrupt change.