Don't know what to major in? Don't worry!!!

You are a High School senior and you do not know what you want to do when you metaphorically "grow up". Or perhaps you are a College freshman and you do not know what to major in. That is not a big deal, in fact it is common. If you are in Middle School, uhm... seriously stop worrying about stuff, you're in middle school.

Most schools do not even require you to pick a major freshman year, so you don't need to stress if you don't know what you want to study. Take advantage of your gen-ed courses and don't be afraid to dive into subject areas that interest you, and even some that don't.  Now is the time to explore different classes and figure out what you're passionate about learning. You will probably discover something you like that you never even knew you would. Just be wary of taking a class in modern dance or ancient Greek literature unless these things actually interest you, because they won't go well with any other majors.



Now that I have hopefully settled your worries about not knowing your major, here are some numbers for your inner nerd to look over.

Petroleum Engineers are among the highest paying majors with a median income of 120k.

Here are the lowest paying majors, Counseling Psychology being the lowest with a median of  29k.





















Here are stats on the highest employment rates.

(All of the graphs were originally published on Businessinsider.com, my intent was to simply put them all on one page for easier reading)


The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has some numbers for anyone that doubts a college education is worth their money. Spoiler, it totally is worth your money regardless of the raising costs.

Here is a link you can follow to see the BLS assessment of that data.


Lastly if you are not yet bored of college information you can follow the following link to Forbes list of the best majors.
Forbes 15 most valuable college majors


Thanks for reading and I truly hope I have provided you with some good information to aid in your upcoming college career.

The Argument from Contingency and why it is wrong

The Argument from Contingency is a cosmological argument that basically asserts that the universe must have a reason, and that reason is God.

"Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence (either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause). 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God" -reasonablefaith.org

The argument follows like this:

1. Everything that exists has an explanation of its existence (either in the necessity of its own       nature or in an external cause).

2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God.

3. The universe exists.

To logically debate this argument you have to find that one of the premises are false. No one would argue 3 is false. Since the Universe could, under different circumstances, conceivably not exist (that is the contingency part). It's existence must be explained by an event that preceded it.

Premise 1 states there are two kinds of things. The first are things which exist by necessity and second are things which exist contingently. Things which exist necessarily exist by a necessity of their own nature. Many mathematicians think that numbers, sets, and other mathematical entities exist in this way. They’re not caused to exist by something else; they just exist by the necessity of their own nature. On the other hand are contingent things which are caused to exist by something else. They exist because something else has produced them. Familiar physical objects like people, planets and galaxies belong in this category. -Dr. William Lane Craig argues this in his and J. P. Moreland’s book Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview. (link to Amazon)

Premise 2 is where the argument fails. We can assume the universe does have an explanation of its existence. However, to say that explanation is any of a number of deities is an unsubstantiated leap until you have reasonable evidence of a deity. Then to assume the universe was created by a deity is merely an assumption. 

However this argument does provide something I have found to be interesting. The universe does most likely have an explanation of its existence. What that is we don't know, but just to think one day we might is remarkable.


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