Journalism is the 'hot' major they encouraged. Personally I think college career advice is similar to relying on 14 day weather forecasts here in Michigan.

I had no interest in computer science because I had no desire to wear a white coat in a frigid data center and find hanging chads in punchcards. Yet a few years after graduating I bought one of the first IBM PC's and was using Compuserve and coding in dBase within a year.

Most people graduating from college today are going to have four separate careers during their working life. You need to keep the habit of lifetime learning because the world will change in many interesting ways.