POLLS : Herd;

Walk across any campus lawn and you’ll notice groups moving together — same classes, same decisions, same anxieties. Herd is that gentle nudge: step out of default-mode decision-making and choose the path that feels truly yours, not borrowed from the crowd.

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2. Mistaking Popular Choices for Safe Choices: Just because everyone is running toward MBA, coding, nursing, or government exams doesn’t mean those paths are stable. The real stability today lies in skills like energy literacy, waste systems understanding, climate basics — the green fundamentals no one taught us formally.

Q2. Do you think popular career choices are always the safest?