Current mood:

excited

HUGE SCHOOL UPDATE!
so i was really confused and unhappy with school, but now it is all figured out, under control, and i am so so happy and in love with school. i dropped my exercise science major (which was the main cause of my suffering) and changed to a history major (my true passion). now everything seems and feels like the way it is suppossed to be. i am still taking the pre-req classes towards chiropractor school so i leave that option open. i realized exercise science was a useless degree for me (since i can become a personal trainer with nothing more than a certification class and test). i am going to finish my advertising major since i am almost done. i am keeping my minor in spanish (both because i am almost done and because i love it and think its useful). and depending on what happens in sweden i might talk my way into a swedish minor (i already credit by examed some swedish credits).

i figured out all the classes i need to take and they all look amazing and im so so excited. i am going abroad next year (sweden first semester and scotland second) with my friend ali, and now i will actually be able to take some classes towards my major abroad instead of just putzing around. then it will take me five semesters to finish (unless i do a ton of summer and winter school). so i will have been in school five and half years (including my one full year abroad) with WAY too many credits. However, i will have:
a history major
an advertising major
all the pre-Rrequisites for chiropractor school
a spanish minor
and maaaaybe a swedish minor.

what to i want to do with my life? well, one of five things:
(in order of desire)

1. use my history major and join the foreign service. (i know its a competative field, but i will "officially" speak three fluent languages and my dad was the swedish ambassador to the us, so i have an in)

2. go to chiropractic graduate school and become a chiropractor

3. go to graduate school and get a masters teaching degree and become a history teacher

4. use my advertising major and join an ad agencys creative team and one day become an ad exec

5. get certified and become a personal trainer and group excercise instructor.

(and just incase i dont do any of those i will either work on a horse ranch as a wrangler, become a summer camp director, or open my own diner in a small town :D)


and just in case you were wondering... here are all the classes i need to take before i graduate:

Pre-chiropractic:

PHY 111 + lab (physics)
PHY 112 + lab (physics)
PSY 101 (psychology)
CHM 235 + lab (organic chemistry)
CHM 238? + lab? (organic chemistry)


Advertising:

COM 400 (MASS COMMUNICATION REGULATION AND RESPONSIBILITY)
JLS 131 (MEDIA WRITING AND REPORTING)
ADV 310 (advertising media selection)
ADV 311W (creative advertising strategies)
ADV 411C (advertising campaigns)


Spanish:

SPA 303 (intermediate oral communication)
SPA 304W (SPANISH STYLISTICS: INTERMEDIATE COMPOSITION)
SPA 321 (INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE IN SPANISH)


History:

HIS 200 (historians and the study of history)
HIS 292 (US history since 1865)
HIS 100 (world history I)
HIS 102 (GLOBAL) (world history II)
HIS 300W (writing- topics in history)
HIS 241 (western civilization II) or HIS 334 (ancient world: Egypt, its culture and civilization) or HIS 240 (western civilization I) or HIS 360 (modern Germany)
HIS 293 (ETHNIC) (American Indian history)
HIS 308 (AHI) (science, technology, and society in the American west)
HIS 366 (the holocaust) or HIS 344 (recent Europe)
HIS 400 (European thought and culture 1750-1950) or HIS 460 (studies in world history)
HIS 430 (teaching methods for history and social sciences) or HIS 489 (the American west transformed)
HIS 451 (Russia: revolutions from USSR to present) or HIS 492 (Diplomatic history of the US) or HIS 493 (topics in diplomatic history)
HIS 498C (senior seminar)

and i am really really excited for ALL of them!!!

EDIT: i just signed up for HIS 241 and PSY 101 online this summer!! (6/2-7/1)