Why I Love Being a Nonprofit Major

By Kristen Van Buren on April 14, 2017

I wasn’t originally a nonprofit major when I first started my freshman year at High Point University. When I first came to High Point University in August 2013 during my freshman year, I originally wanted to be a biology major (since I wanted to either be a veterinarian or a pharmacist).

During October, after being in a hard chemistry course, I figured out that biology wasn’t going to be the best major for me. Months later during my spring semester of my freshman year, I decided to change my major to strategic communications. Sophomore year was the year I decided to change my major to nonprofit leadership and management after realizing strategic communications wasn’t the right major for me either.

Strategic communications wasn’t the major I thought it would be because I realized that I am not good with writing press releases. Even though I am good at writing, I saw that I did better in regular writing and not writing having to do with press releases. What I love about being a nonprofit major is that through my courses at HPU, I am learning about essential nonprofit skills that in the future will help me towards my future career in the nonprofit world. I want to make a difference in the world since many problems still occur in the world including environmental problems, poverty, homelessness, etc.

Even after two years in my major I still don’t have a favorite type of nonprofit that I love because I think that every different type is unique since not all nonprofits help the same cause. It feels weird that I am going to be getting my bachelor’s degree in nonprofit leadership and management in less than a month from now, but  I realized that it is okay to change your major more then once while getting your bachelor’s degree; even though you may be set on studying a certain major during your freshman year, you may realize after taking certain courses that another major might be better to study while getting your bachelor’s degree.

Image by Sharon Sinclair via flickr.com

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