Sociology: why am I in it?

Last high school year in Chile is pretty strange... at least that's what I think. Last year at  my high school we were all getting crazy about writing the final exams, studying for those big tests called "PSU" if we wanted to get into university, enjoying our last year together and so on. But of all the things we got to do that year, we'd one really important, a decision to make: "do we want to go to university?, which career do we want to attend?, where?, why?" In sum, we were asking ourselves many questions like those day by day, trying to figure out what were we going to do at the next year.

December came and we'd already written PSU-exams, we just needed to know how many points did we get and, the very important question, what did we want to study. For me that last question was an awkward one.... I mean, how could we actually know what we want to study if we didn't got any orientation for it?... But, the main question that was going around in my head was that how could we chose just one career of the more than 100 careers that are taught in Chile if we hadn't been studying them before? I just thought that you cannot say 'no' to a thing that you actually don't know... And that was what we made.

Anyway, I needed to choose some career quickly, because the deadline was coming and I didn't have an idea about what I wanted to study. I started to think about what did I want to do on the future with my life and what did I want to do at that time; the answers where mostly that I liked many things, but that I wasn't sure about any of them... so, I said to myself: Well, if I do not have one thing that I want to do in the future, I should choose a career in which I could do many different things. Right after my thought I met a sociologist who told me that at her career she could work at many places and make investigations of really different topics. And that was all the help I needed. -If I study sociology I could travel to different countries and investigate different things there! - I thought. And I chose it, and I got in here.

Of course after making my decision and getting here I asked myself why sociology? and why at Universidad de Chile?... In fact, I still wondering it, but I think I made a right decision. I do like a lot the university, my classmates and teachers, so thank you intuition!