This is it....no more changing majors
I've decided to say fuck all to what I've been told and I'm just going to major in English. It's what I excel in and what I've wanted to do ever since I decided the Recording Industry is a horrble, horrible quagmire of a business. In fact, I'll be counting the days until the entire "Big whatever # it is now" record label conglomorate implodes on itself. Well, let's trace my college career thus far. I started with Recording Industry, moved on to Accounting for a summer, figured pre-radiation therapy might be alright, then became optimistic about Physcal Therapy but soon realized that I just cannot stand doing science over and over again, and now finally I'm concluding on English with a doctorate degree in mind. Why not? It's the only class where I've really stood out amongst other sudents. I was recommended for various university writing courses in highschool. I've never made lower than a B+ on any analytical or research paper (except for one...which I was cheated out of!). I've also been reading a lot more since the summer. To add onto this fire, I'm also putting a double-major in Anthropology into consideration. I won't go on to discuss my career plans with these degrees in this journal, but I do have plans....many plans.
(btw..no jokes about being an English major and still spelling incorrectly on this entry, Im using a fucked up keyboard)
but yeah...less music, more books. Somehow or another, my main reading topic has ended up as slavery. Here's a list of what I've picked up and I'm either currently reading or going to read in the near future:
(the first two are for classes...one which isn't mine, but my roommate's because he's paying me to do his World Civilizations paper)
"Candide" by Voltaire
"How Did American Slavery Begin?" selections by Edward Countryman
"Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy" by Kevin Bales
"Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World" by
John Isbster
"Cities of the Red Night" by William S. Burroughs
"The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place" by David Joel Steinberg (I have a feeling this one will just be kept around for future research. Shit, t was only $1)
The Bales and Isbter books are great. At least the first chapters are great seeing as how that's all I've read in them so far (I just got them earlier today). I haven't read anything which I already didn't know but it just goes into greater detail of slavery & poverty around the world and how the western world is effecting these problems as well as how the western world is affected by it in turn. Excellent recommendations for those looking to be pissed off and depressed about something.
(btw..no jokes about being an English major and still spelling incorrectly on this entry, Im using a fucked up keyboard)
but yeah...less music, more books. Somehow or another, my main reading topic has ended up as slavery. Here's a list of what I've picked up and I'm either currently reading or going to read in the near future:
(the first two are for classes...one which isn't mine, but my roommate's because he's paying me to do his World Civilizations paper)
"Candide" by Voltaire
"How Did American Slavery Begin?" selections by Edward Countryman
"Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy" by Kevin Bales
"Promises Not Kept: The Betrayal of Social Change in the Third World" by
John Isbster
"Cities of the Red Night" by William S. Burroughs
"The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place" by David Joel Steinberg (I have a feeling this one will just be kept around for future research. Shit, t was only $1)
The Bales and Isbter books are great. At least the first chapters are great seeing as how that's all I've read in them so far (I just got them earlier today). I haven't read anything which I already didn't know but it just goes into greater detail of slavery & poverty around the world and how the western world is effecting these problems as well as how the western world is affected by it in turn. Excellent recommendations for those looking to be pissed off and depressed about something.