[some][minor][whining]
The Mind/Brain/Behavior secondary field is up!!
Which leads me to ask myself the question. MBB or VES(Visual and Environmental Studies)?
VES - fun, highly artsy - an awesome break from science and psets, I can't draw and am a complete amateur in the area (but ooh animation ooh video/film!), will stretch me differently, more likely than not completely useless to me in the future, probable massive timesuck (though I will love it, time needs to be burnt at the altar of research), double-count more or less impossible
MBB - interesting, much more intellectual/academic in nature therefore closer to what I know/can excel in, could develop further my latent interest in psych and neuro (why do a minor in either when you could do both in one?), may be useful in future, easily doable time-wise, double-count with concentration likely
English and American Literature and Language is gone at this stage b/c English 10a will bore me to death (am NOT a fan of early English writing aside from the Bard's tragedies, which means the only work I could love in the entire semester is King Lear and they spend two days on it -.-") and when there are other awesome fields around that's enough to tip the balance I'm afraid.
East Asian Studies is awesome (Sino-Jap post-WWII relations being something of a pet topic for me) but is that one narrow interest (fine, that and anime) really enough to spend 6 courses on? Also, why does Popular Culture of Modern China count for the secondary but NOT Japanese Pop Culture?! For shame.
And the thing is once they approve Global Health as a secondary, what should I do? Global Health is like MBB except I know even more about it and the topic gets my steam going (even though from a purely detached intellectual standpoint - can you do that with health issues? - I like MBB better).
Of course I could just not do a secondary at all and "explore" which is what any advisor would tell me at this stage. But I don't really like "exploring" in that sense - strikes me that I would get a lot more if I focused on one field and delved. But which plunge to take?
Which leads me to ask myself the question. MBB or VES(Visual and Environmental Studies)?
VES - fun, highly artsy - an awesome break from science and psets, I can't draw and am a complete amateur in the area (but ooh animation ooh video/film!), will stretch me differently, more likely than not completely useless to me in the future, probable massive timesuck (though I will love it, time needs to be burnt at the altar of research), double-count more or less impossible
MBB - interesting, much more intellectual/academic in nature therefore closer to what I know/can excel in, could develop further my latent interest in psych and neuro (why do a minor in either when you could do both in one?), may be useful in future, easily doable time-wise, double-count with concentration likely
English and American Literature and Language is gone at this stage b/c English 10a will bore me to death (am NOT a fan of early English writing aside from the Bard's tragedies, which means the only work I could love in the entire semester is King Lear and they spend two days on it -.-") and when there are other awesome fields around that's enough to tip the balance I'm afraid.
East Asian Studies is awesome (Sino-Jap post-WWII relations being something of a pet topic for me) but is that one narrow interest (fine, that and anime) really enough to spend 6 courses on? Also, why does Popular Culture of Modern China count for the secondary but NOT Japanese Pop Culture?! For shame.
And the thing is once they approve Global Health as a secondary, what should I do? Global Health is like MBB except I know even more about it and the topic gets my steam going (even though from a purely detached intellectual standpoint - can you do that with health issues? - I like MBB better).
Of course I could just not do a secondary at all and "explore" which is what any advisor would tell me at this stage. But I don't really like "exploring" in that sense - strikes me that I would get a lot more if I focused on one field and delved. But which plunge to take?