Dear 19-Year-Old Me,

Right now you're thinking about changing majors or schools, and you're right about that. Graphic design's main function is advertisement of a product or an idea through clever packaging and promotion. You're worried that you'll only end up in the ad industry designing cigarette or beer ads instead of book covers. The anti-consumerist in you would hate you for being a corporate whore.

You have what it takes to be a good designer, but competition isn't part of your nature. You're miserable because you've just spent two semesters thanklessly cutting and gluing paper squares. You're not getting the intellectual experience you'd always imagined. 

But let's be fair. You probably aren't going to be swept off your feet by a handsome young professor during fireside discussions of philosophy and socialism no matter what school you go to.

So change your course of study to something that genuinely interests you, like anthropology or psychology. Continue studying literature and philosophy. Surround yourself with people you can learn from, who make you feel good about yourself.

But don't study education, where you'll be sucked into a world of vapid aliens who care more about the newest Coach handbag than the injustices capitalism causes in our society. Where you will take redundant classes that don't challenge you.

You're going to graduate with over $25k in debt. You might as well try to enjoy your college experience instead of letting it be something you hate.

Love, 

Me