After first year finished I kind of still had no idea of my major 
I still remember having a serious skype talk with my parents in the dorms in March after the 
Meet Your Major event
"Dad and Mom, I have no idea what I'm gonna do after this year and I hate chem labs 
",
but at that time I know I wanted to do something related to stem cells after college,
so after some process of elimination (considering my GPA) I ended up with three choices:
Environmental Science, Biochemistry, and Microbiology and Immunology
All three of them are completely different subjects and have drastically different course schedules, so from my POI,
Environmental science may be the least popular among these three, but the job market is quite big considering the damage we made and the recovery that's needed. 
Biochem is more medical and many of my distant relatives in the US have their professions in that field, so it was where I thought I would put some thought into. 
Microbi is medical and seems hard, but the job market seems relatively smaller compared to the other two. Yet some of the most recent discovers in the medical field relate closely to this field as well as some stem cell stuff. 
Therefore, I filled out my application and in late June I got into MBIM but not did I get in 'cause you never know if you are going to be those 84 students that get into MICB 322 or you are going to end up in some other transferable majors
July 5th was my registration date, but when I tried to register I was completely blocked out of the full BIOL 201 because of the staggered seating business. I woke up earlier the next day and got in at like 8:45ish and managed to get into my desired BIOL sections. (seemed like Chowrira's sections for both BIOL 200 and 201 are more popular...dunno why) 
Something to note for the future is the staggered seating...it seemed like it didn't help students find seats and made a lot of us wake up early in the morning refreshing computer screens to get into the 50 seats released in the morning. Learned point: refreshing constantly at 8:45ish was really helpful and those with STTs are lucky.
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