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How to choose between passion and practicality in education

My college advisor keeps pushing me toward practical majors but I want to study philosophy, and I can't tell if I'm being idealistic or everyone else is being soul-crushingly pragmatic.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're navigating the tension between authentic interest and external pressure in a system that often treats these as mutually exclusive.

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