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feeling: pressured
listening to: Olympics on my teevee
I have discovered something frighteningly fun and addicting. It's called Googlewhacking. What ya do is, go to Google, an amazingly extensive search engine, and type in a search consisting of TWO WORDS, with no quotation marks, that returns only ONE result. Man, talk about addicting. My Googlewhacks tonight: Pasteurized Coelacanth, Detoxified Budgerigars, Methodological Gharials, Tangelo Orrery, Scientifically Methodize (that amazed me, considering the scientific method and all), Paleontologic Gosling... and that's all for now. I'm sure I'll look for more later. Bored now.
I have to decide on a major in the next, like, 24 hours. Yay life. -_- Well... I've put it off this long, I guess. It's kinda funny thinking back to my senior year, when I couldn't decide on a major because I had too many ideas to choose from - art, mythology/classics, writing, journalism, music... I can't remember if there were any more. So I whittled all of those down to... well, nothing... within a year. The only idea I have left is Japanese. Yes, I'm about to declare a Japanese major. But, what if I get sick and tired of it in the next year or two? I mean, back when I was starting college, I was obsessed with mythology and art and writing and all those other things I mentioned. I still like them, for the most part, but I just outgrew the fascination. For instance, mythology - for starters, the closest I could come to majoring in that would be a major in classics, and not ALL classical subjects interest me. And art... oh, I still LOVE art. But... it's only a hobby. I figured that out in the art class I took last year. So what if Japanese turns out the same? I think I've always had sort of a deep-seeded fascination with East Asian... um, stuff, but... there were no classes about any of it in my high school, and I didn't really endeavor to learn anything about it till I became obsessed with anime. So what if my anime obsession fades? Will my Japanese interests go with it, even though they were faintly there before I became an otaku? I mean, every other interest I ever had faded after a few years... aarrrrg... *throws random book out window*
But, here's the way I see it. It's extremely stupid to declare a major in something that doesn't interest you, or something that you can't see yourself sticking with, or something that's just gonna seem like a chore. Where I stand now, it doesn't look like I'll lose my interest in Japanese, but... what if I do? But still, it's the only interest I have right now that I actually WANT to learn more about, and that doesn't seem at all like a chore... just an interest. On one hand, if something's just an interest, should you build your life around it? But on the other hand, if there's something else that you decide to major in just because it would make a good career one day, but it doesn't particularly interest you... it just seems like a chore, and it's not worth it. Now, Japanese interests me. From where I stand now, I don't really see it as being a chore if I base the rest of my college life around it. It'd feel a lot like these past 2 quarters of Japanese have - like electives. The way I see it, that's what it's all about. Maybe right now I can't think of too many good jobs that could get me, but if it's an interest, and if I put just a little work into it, I can find one.
Well, there you have it. By this time next week... it looks like I'll be a Japanese major.
Um. Do I get a cookie now or anything?
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dragged from Becky's stream of consciousness at 2/14/2002 10:29:00 PM
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