I am having another midlife crisis. With my excess of these at my young age, maybe I won't endure one when I really am in my mid life.
Sometime after lunch today something began to dawn on me. I'm not sure what brought it out. But I realized that maybe I don't have to do quantum physics. Maybe I can major in literature and creative writing etc, and go to grad school for that, and minor in philosophy. I would really like that.
Then I started thinking about math and how much I like it, and I don't think I could bear not taking as much math as I could get (which sounds really geeky but it's the sad truth). Then I thought about writing and I knew it was nearly my favorite thing in the world, that and reading. And talking about books and interpreting them.
So I was decided for a while but now I'm back to indecision. I don't know. For another few years my future will be a sort of buffet of amazing opportunities. After that, everything will begin to close. I don't want to choose wrong. It's my whole life I'm dealing with.
I did a budget for MIT for money management though, and I think that with working and scholarships and student loans it just might be possible. But then I thought about writing and reading at Oberlin maybe and that sounded very nice too.
I DON'T KNOW.
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"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that and you can't recover from it."
"What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring...you can't cure that and you can't recover from it."
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3 comments:
You'll figure it out. You've got time.
And I'm sure you've already heard that most college students change their major at least a few times. :)
Heck, why not go ahead and double or triple major? If anybody's got the brains to do it you do!!
there is no reason you have to choose between two major areas you love. finding a way to pursue both is entirely possible.
and you are never caged into one career path for the rest of your life... there is plenty of time in this world to do more than one thing.
maybe you could be like spinoza and find a way to explain ethics through fractals ;)
I am pretty opinionated on this subject :) (on most subjects actually).
I heard a wise man once say :
Decide on a career in something you enjoy, NOT something you love.
Kinda like eating your favorite food every day of the week for 40 years.
Go to college to learn to do something that will help you get a good job making decent money.
With a comfortable lifestyle comes the ability to pursue your other loves in life. You have the ability and opportunity to avoid a problem that plagues the majority of the people that live in this country...I wouldn't squander it.
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