Very good advice. Seriously, if you don't have a very definite idea of what you wish to study and how you can make a career out of it (and be realistic - the world doesn't need that many professors), don't go to school just yet.
I went to university my first go round without any definite thoughts about the future. I just had some nebulous notion about getting tenure and writing history books. I started out studying history and anthropology. Two years in, I decided I hated anthropology and sort of fell into the geography field by accident. I ended up loving it but unfortunately for me, I was already locked into the arts half of the program due to my decision to get a history degree. I much preferred the science side of the field. (In Canada, you can get either a BA or a BSc in geography depending on your field of study.) I came out with a BA in history (19th century Europe) and geography (distaster prevention and relief management) with some pretty mediocre grades which would've made it very hard to get into grad school had I chosen that route.
I had a lot of friends who just kind of drank their way through to a mountain of debt and a meaningless BA and nearly all struggled to find decent work after graduating.
By contrast, my friends who were focussed on a goal or who went into applied sciences or medicine all landed high paying jobs soon after graduation. Didn't matter if they got a P. Eng or a 2 year diploma, that's where the work is.
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