there needs to be some way to experience, even if just on a piece of paper, what a prospective major might feel like: concepts and ideas learned, possible career tracks, what you really have to do for the major.
this isn’t me complaining about being an english major whatsoever. this is me wishing i had known more about the difference between psychology and sociology back when i was just picking a major. if i could go back, i would probably have chosen to major in sociology rather than creative writing and minor in english instead. right now it’s the opposite. which i’m fine with at this point. i’m not trying to stay in undergrad for another 2-3 years just to get a completely new degree.
graduate school is coming up, i’ve got about a year and a half left before graduation, and then i’ve got to make a decision on where i want to be for the next 2-ish years and what i want to focus on. i’m really heavily considering getting a masters in sociology (i was previously thinking about advertising), but i don’t know how that looks on paper, to have a degree in creative writing with a minor in sociology plus a masters in sociology? does that look weird? does it look like i have any idea where i’m going with my life? does it show that i’m indecisive but also decisive since i took the initiative to really go in-depth into a new field?
i can’t get enough of my sociology classes. these readings are actually fun; i can’t think of another social science class that ever made me want to read more and learn more and use those readings and learnings to understand more about my own interactions and how society works as a whole.
basically, sociology has the same effect on me that the writing center does. maybe i need to figure out a way to combine both of those parts of my life…
- i’m not a mermaid. i’ll never be a mermaid no matter how hard i try.
- i was never a child star. after i saw cheaper by the dozen i cried myself to sleep for a week because i was so jealous of all the fun they must have had making the movie.
- i don’t work at disney. i need to work at disney. i just want the costume and the fame and the magic.
- i’m not a real princess. i want to live in a castle and have gold everything and sparkly shoes and a garden better than versailles.
- i’m still in college and not in the real world. i need to graduate already so i can start real life and not have school on the front burner all the time. i want to have a real job and disposable income and i want to go on cheap trips to anywhere i can think of. i want maps stuffing my glove compartment to capacity with circled cities and wishes for adventure.
- i don’t have an accent and unless i fake it until i make it (which would be awful and annoying and obviously unauthentic) i never will.
- i don’t live on an island and i don’t have 24/7 access to water/the beach.
it all makes me sad but happy and hopeful at the same time. even though the mermaid thing will (most likely) never happen, i know the rest are all possible. okay, maybe not the child star thing either, but a girl can dream, right?
2011 brought with it some interesting experiences. i spent last new year’s eve jumping out of an airplane with my boyfriend and his sister. this new year’s there is no boyfriend, but i still have the feeling of free-falling (in the best way possible). the new year brought a new school, new faces, and a new home. i moved across the country to tallahassee and transferred to florida state university. summer was an adventure, i hiked 50 miles of the appalachian trail and came face to face with a black bear. i went to electric daisy carnival, my first ever music festival. i lived with my boyfriend and reunited with old friends. i saw tiesto and diplo and countless other DJs that came through tallahassee. i got new roommates that i couldn’t be happier with.
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and relive the new year’s eves of my life:
2009-2010:
2008-2009: not pictured
2007-2008:
2006-2007: not pictured
2005-2006:
okay, i’m done.
conformity with previous attitudes, behaviour, practice, etc
file under: something i need in my life.
i noticed how 3-D noses are. like, if you look at one head-on and remember that it’s this thing sticking out of someone’s face, then you realize that it’s actually doing just that. and then you feel like you’re almost cross-eyed and then you notice you’re spending way too much time looking at some person’s nose and you hope they don’t notice especially since their nose is pretty freaking 3-D if you know what i mean.
i can’t be the only one.
a midterm exam “cheat sheet” is a generous concept that makes the student happy and gives the professor something of substance to grade.
that is, it’s a great idea when it doesn’t have to cover ten short essays, three medium length essays, and a long essay with a suggested length of three pages. all of which have to include accurate sources (author and title of article/chapter).
in theory, it’s just peachy. in reality, i’m barely halfway through my first short essay question and already half a page into a word document.
cOoL LiFe~*
