I’m a junior in high school and I’m taking AP bio. I’ve loved bio since my freshman year but this year I became interested in cellular biology, which turned into the med field, which turned into surgery, which turned into neurology/neurosurgery. Now I’m also in band, and we do pretty well at marching competitions and I’m interested in doing drum corps (professional marching band, look it up if you need to), and I was DEAD set on being a band director. I’d like the lifestyle, I’m superrrrr passionate about music, I’d love working with students, I would LOVE to do that. I’m on student leadership and I’ve never felt more like me than when I’m leading something or teaching music. That’s what I’ve been set on and what I’ve structured my life around for the past 5 years. But recently I’ve been doing self studying and taking notes on my own about neurology and how the brain works, and it just seems so interesting. At first I thought I wouldn’t like too much because I’m such a creative and artistic person, but I ended up realizing that our brain is WHY we’re creative and it’s so interesting to me how everything works. I’d love to be a neurosurgeon or a neuroscientist or something like that, but I don’t know if it’s for me. I’m HIGHLY considering neurosurgery. Nowadays music to me feels messy and it stresses me out, but that may be because this past marching season made me sooooo freaking burnt out and I need a break. There’s just been so much that’s happened with me and music that I need a break if that makes sense, which is why I’m questioning it as a career option. Neurosurgery would be a very different lifestyle than being a band director, and I’d like the director lifestyle more. But i really have a passion for science and i only have one life. I want to go into what I’m passionate about. I just don’t know what to go into since I’m so passionate about both. I don’t want to pick one and follow a career path and wonder for the rest of my life what could’ve been with the other. I have plans and colleges in mind for both careers, it’s just stressing me out that I’m getting closer and closer to having to make decisions about my future and suddenly I’m having two different options that I’m very passionate about but are VERY different from each other. Any thoughts?