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Aunt Edna is <i>decidedly</i> in favor of vegetables!

I am a Freshman in the Arts and Sciences school but I am very unclear as to what I would like to major in. I started off as chem but gave it up after about a month (It’s a long story). Basically, I don’t know where to begin to look for a new one. Currently it feels as if I’m choosing my major based on process of elimination and this is far from reassuring. Sometimes I feel like I would like to study business or economics because it’s what my dad did but is this a wrong reason? How can I be sure? Where can I look for help? I tried the Career Center but all I did was sit behind a computer for hours lying about my interests (I don’t know what I’m interested in). I am constantly asked by my friends and relatives what I’m studying and I hate not knowing but feeling like I should! Oh well.

-Undecided

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Aunt Edna, in the 50s.

I have been here in Cornell for nearly three years now, and I know that my reason for coming here is to get a degree in Econ.  I feel that nothing is of higher priority than my studies, and I do very well academically.  Socially, on the other hand, I seem to be lagging behind.  I’m a junior and I have never been on a date!  Although this didn’t really bother me my freshman and sophomore years, since I was caught up in college and working hard, by this point I really would like to get out a little more and learn to relax and enjoy myself.  For some reason, I have a great deal of difficulty meeting women (I even have difficulty getting them to notice me!).  I’m a really shy guy, and I have a fear of rejection, but by no means is it crippling.  On a campus which probably has about 9,000 females, there must be at least one out there who would be interested in me, right? What advice can you offer on how to improve my situation (and with that, my self esteem)?

–Looking to Date

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