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I'm entering into my 3nd semester of my junior year as a double major in Sociology/Criminal Justice and Legal Studies. Those two majors will automatically give me a minor in political science. In Middle school/early high school I enjoyed band and music so I thought I wanted to be a band director, but sophomore year in High School I saw on A&E one of those documentries about Cyber Crime, and this was specifically about child porn and pedophiles. Right then I decided that's what I wanted to do - but those nasty pervert pedophiles behind bars - and I've never looked back. Right now there's constant debate on if lurking and luring the pedophiles into traps is considered a violation of privacy, so that's where the Legal Studies major will come in. I declared as a Criminal Justice major as a freshman in college and haven't considered switching once. I'm aware that a degree in sociology doesn't have many job prospects, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. In the next few months I'll contact the "Internet Crimes Against Children task force" here in Knoxville and the KPD and see about internships.

David,
My brother David went from: environmental sciences to geography to sociology to environmental sciences to (finally) health. I don't think he declared all of those, but he certainly took courses in all of those realms.
Needless to say, after 7.5 years of college, he had WAY more than the required 120-some credits to graduate.

So, it's common, and you shouldn't worry. Find what you like, put your heart into it, and you'll enjoy doing it. The first semester/year is all about learning about yourself.

I took a long time to get through college.

In high school I was better with humanities, wester civ, english classes etc. I kept taking all the hard chem, physics, math classes as they were more challenging for me.
I went to college and decided I'd be a EE.
I never took more than a few classes as the first 1.5 years of engineering is all the same. I only officially changed my major one other time later on to MSE but when I was going through college I found I was good at chemistry and later on physics. I skirted the idea of doing chemistry, Chem E. and of course ME which I was good at.
I took classes in all these majors and in the end I was able to apply them all to the field of Materials Science because it dealt with mechanical/chemical/electrical properties of materials. I learned about each field and of course more specific aspects of metallurgy, semiconductors and ceramics.
Its a fun major with a lot of diversification so that you could work in Bio-Med fields, computer industry, auto industry, chemical, aerospace, etc.
It worked out for me.

Of course I also opted to join the Army as an Officer and although its tough and will get tougher soon, I'm getting experience every day, I get out and around every day, I get paid to do PT!! Physical Training and I get to hang out with many cool people of all backgrounds, social levels and educational levels.
I use my engineering degree very little right now, but it is a way for me to gain management experience and more real-life people skills while I am in. It tests your limits and raises them all!

If someone has ANY kind of a degree, and they are bored or have the desire to lead people and not remain locked in an office then check it out!

Some of the most successful people that I know don't have degrees but they hire people with degrees. The person who started Boyd Bros Transportation http://www.boydbros.com/ had only a 3rd grade education when I worked for them. His assets were valued at $43,000,000 in the 80's.