The folks at Crash Course have developed a new channel and series of courses called Study Hall. One of those courses is called How to College.
How to College is a great series for high school students and first year college students. The course covers everything from deciding to go to college to picking a college to picking a major and how to pay for it all. It’s a series that could be particularly useful to first generation college students who don’t have anyone to rely on who has gone through the process before them.
I watched the How to Choose a Major video this morning. And while I can’t say that it would have stopped me from changing majors a couple of times, it would have given me more ideas about what could be done with the degrees associated with those other majors I tried before getting a degree in history.
If you’re curious about the picture I selected for this blog post, it represents what drew me to Maine when I was a college student, fly fishing. For someone like me who didn’t have the grades or the money to go to an elite university, picking a school based on my hobbies was about as good a selection criteria as any 25 years ago.
