Good luck!

You are right to have goals and dreams in mind in approaching any program. However, and forgive me if this sounds too parental, learning simply for the sake of pursuing your interests is great and MAY be finanancially beneficial. Learning to make a living is necessary.

My point, in my experience, U.S. colleges are not focused on helping you get a degree which will lend itself to helping you make a living when you get out. I have seen dozens of people acquire degrees that are not worth much of anything careerwise. Watch out for that trap! Find whatever resources are available on curriculums that land graduates jobs and take a hard look at it. You can always pursue other more personal interests on the side or work your way into other things while working. It is hard to pursue much of anything if you are unemployed and have college loans to boot.

Sorry for the preaching.

Man, I envy you- college was the best time of my life.

I went to college without a real idea of what to study, a kid with a lot of interests. I think that I secretly believed I was going to be a rock star anyway, so my major didn't matter.

I started off at a Franciscan university, with a vague Communications major. I transferred after a year to a college that offered a Music & Sound Recording program, and spent two years discovering that I wasn't all that good at it. The coursework was no problem, but my attitude just wasn't where it needed to be. I was a serious party guy at that point, and it took a semester on probation to get my priorities back on track. However, I don't really regret it- if you're gonna party hard, the first few years of college is the best time to do it.

Luckily, part of St. Bonaventure's requirements were that every Freshman had to take a semester of Philosophy and a semester of Theology...and that became my undergraduate and then my post-graduate field. LOL- it was completely useless from an employment point of view, but I'd also earned a secondary major in Audio/ Video Communications from my other courses, so that helped find work later on.

Honestly, college is like anything else- you get almost exactly what you put into it. If I was going to college now, I'd be a lot more focused and disciplined...but on the other hand, I had four or five great years of exploration, fun, relative irresponsibility and intense relationships. Either way you approach it, you'll have memories to last a lifetime.

Wish you a lot of fan in the college and to get this interesting and good speciality, Sweetnighter!!!!

Personally I've graduated The University of Textile And Light Industry at 2000, my speciality is Chemical Technologist... (The necessary one for the most profitable kinds of business - drugs and arms ). Though now I work as the Technician in Graphical and Printing business...