I was thinking about my major today. Last semester I declared Pre-Photography. I had always thought I wasn't good enough to get into the program but then I thought...you know? How will I know if I don't try?
So here I am, three days into the new semester and my 2-Dimensional Design and Photography classes, feeling way in over my head. I mean, they're okay I guess. But in my 2-D Design class everyone has been drawing and doing artsy things for years and I'm just sitting there like "Uh...I take pretty pictures." And my Photography professor is a professional from L.A. and he was telling us about the business aspect of photography and what a hard field it is and how hard you have to work at it. I just felt like...it wasn't for me. I'm not an entrepreneur. I don't know what I want to do with photography, I just know that I love it and I'm sort of good at it and I want to major in something I love. Overall, I just feel out of place in both classes.
If I can, I will apply to the Visual Arts major in March, emphasis in Photography. If I get in, great. I will take classes and apply for the Photography BFA program and I will be all set. But I realized today, I don't have a backup plan...what if I don't get in to the VA program?
I panickedly started looking at available majors. These are my thoughts....the ideas I don't want to forget.
I could major in American Studies. I would have to take an Econ class--not my forte, but I could manage.
Another option is Humanities, with an emphasis in History or maybe Media Arts.
I could major in History maybe.
Possibly Linguistics.
Political Science would be cool.
Maybe Sociology, even thought I swore I would never take another Statistics class.
Well, there you have it. My major. My list of possible alternatives for when it falls through. Just...don't ask me what I would do with any of those degrees.
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