I'll just put a plug in for physics and astronomy here.
Hey, I'm with you!! Everyone should be in the "one true major".
I really have to disagree (not with you personally). I think you should major in what you're interested in doing for a living. I don't mean to offend anyone but if you want to be an IT professional, major in IT. If you want to be a Computer Scientist (or, by extension, a developer; hopefully someday there will be a software engineering degree at BYU) major in CS. If you want to be a Technical Manager (PHB) major in MIS.
If you're major isn't preparing you for what you want to do you should seriously consider changing majors. If it's close, but not quite there take 499R (or whatever they call it i your major) and read a textbook on a subject that isn't offered. Better yet, get with a professor and help him design a course in it.
Studying something you don't want to do the rest of your life is silly, unless it just isn't taught at university, but it probably is. Finding out late what you really wanted to do all along is a fair excuse, but still sad.
Not getting a bachelors degree is also silly.
It's also silly to major in something because the thing you really wanted to do sounded too hard, (or was too hard). If nothing else it insults those who majored in the "easier" one because it's what they love. Don't drop CS because it's too hard and go into IT because it's supposed to be easier. Drop it because you aren't interested in compiler design, but you are interested in network administration. The same goes for English. Some people major in English because they have a real passion for it. It insults them to go study with them because engineering was too hard for you, unless it was too hard because you didn't love it.
-- Andrew Jorgensen
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