Changing your major isn’t failing. It’s choosing the right fight before you spend four years on the wrong one.

Switching gets treated as a failed commitment when it is usually a correction made with information you did not have at the start. The alternative is finishing something that stopped fitting a year ago, which costs far more than one awkward term of changing. Time already spent feels like a reason to continue and is actually the strongest argument against it. Picking the right fight early is cheap.

If you are unsure, spend two weeks collecting evidence rather than feelings. Sit in on a class, talk to two people a few years ahead, and ask which work you would still do on a bad day.