Trying to figure out the future.
So.
I can graduate in December with a Bachelors in Liberal Arts or whatever they call it.
Focus: History. Minor: Sociology.
Or. I can spend almost two more semesters [21 creds] and add another major, which is new: Urban and Regional Studies. It has to do with city planning and it's really what I'm interested in. I already have 12 credits in this field [Need 15 for a minor... with a class from each track and I have 2 tracks covered].
I would need to take the prereq [3 cred] (it wouldn't be until winter because the major is that new), 12 credits of random classes that interest me anyway, the senior level class [3 cred], and some form of community research for another 3credits. This can be an internship or an independent study or some other form of service that is approved.
Maybe my Ottawa internship would fill in for 3 more. I worked in politics and paid a lot of attention to the city itself. I loved it there. The city, that is. It's beautiful. I plan to go back over the summer.
And really... I already have Cognates. Srsly.
21 credits for a second major isn't bad. And I am well aware that a History major is worth a cardboard box if it has nothing to follow it. The way this degree is designed, it's really useful.
When I first thought about this, I thought the major was 15 credits (Yeah yeah, I know, I know...) and I didn't know I had any of the classes already under my belt and I wanted to do it. It's only 6 more credits than I thought and it's still the same amount of time. And the variety of classes that I need, well, there should always be options open. [SOC, ECON, AAAS, CRJ, POL, AMST, ... hey I have another class that I took! WGST, AH, COML, ENGL, GEOG, HIST]
So... I have 15 credits already into it and would only need 18.
I can take things on Architecture and Cartography and Environmentalism and Economics and Geography and Politics and Public Policy and Social Group and I mean... this is all stuff I like.
Or... I can graduate and get it over with and still not know what to do. Go back for teaching or fiddle with grad school ideas. Probably get another service job and never leave.
What do you think? Another two semesters?
Graduate with two majors in 5.5 years?
It's at least more useful than History, neh?
Blech. I am so useless.










(stolen from 