For many of us, choosing our majors wasn't the easiest thing in the world to do. It would've been kind of cool, we realized, if we'd had someone to chat with about the academic problems we faced from time to time. Most schools provide academic counseling services to help students out with just these kinds of problems, but those centers often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer number of students they're required to serve.
Many students also find themselves too shy or simply unwilling to go to a counselor to ask for help.
And sometimes students just want a second opinion. There's a ton of great advice and information out there, but without someone on your side to help you get it, it can be awfully tough to find. That's why we publish many of the questions we've received and our answers to them. We hope that by doing so we can help other folks who might stop by the site but either don't want to send an e-mail or don't even realize they've got the same problem. But the last thing we want is for you to avoid writing us because you're afraid your question might be plastered on the Web for the world to see.