Utilitarianism: Declaring My College Major

All college students who wish to graduate must select a major. Some people decide major in high school, others think in general what they want to do at university, but I will not decide my major before attending a course that I am interested in. Unfortunately, I did not choose major, and I had to pick it up at the end of the semester to apply again. I would like to choose the most ethical and helpful occupation. But without the philosophy of moral goodness, I noticed that it was pretty difficult to choose this majors.

According to my experience, most of the most ethical choice theory of discussion is inspired by some form of utilitarianism. To be honest, I always think that utilitarianism is boring and frustrating. It simplifies thought experiments and moral dilemmas to mathematics. It eliminates important body components and makes thinking experiments very interesting. I like Utilitarians for economists. The latter is economically traded, the former being traded on "utility" (usually understood as happiness). When they became simple calculations, I stopped enjoying thought experiments. Can you confirm that the utility is restricted? Or is this a huge assumption?

In my teens and college years, this problem bothered me. At that age, when I announced my major and tried to select my career, it was long and was knitted at night of insomnia. However, as far as possible, we can not find the "most important answer". I think that this is impossible - a few lucky few rituals are blessed with lightning or are blessed with the clarity of worn paths. So I began to speculate that this seemed to work quite well. Daniel Gilbert shows us in his book "Stumbling in Happiness". Humans are not good at predicting what makes us happy in the future For example, if you ask "Do you want to eat Greek cuisine in 3 weeks?" You can infer your feelings well. But if I ask you, you will be more accurate, "Do you want to eat Greek cuisine tonight?"

Okay, I am going to college. I never published my major when I entered community college for the first time, but I will be in English major. I hate reading and writing, so this is an interesting choice. I think that I like the idea of ​​writing. That's enough for me. Since I have to choose my course, college feels like a new beginning. What I am doing touches me completely. Okay, I will return to college. This time I am majoring in computer science. Since I was 13 years old, I've been programming and programming with my computer, so it's a natural feeling. Despite their experiences (which we can not prove), they will not let me skip the introduction of the Java course. I finished the semester with As and Bs. I participated in the data structure course in the next semester. I think that this is boring, and the professor does not really care what she is taught. This may seem to be the time I dropped out of school again, but you are wrong.