Should I change my major? lol

Post » Sun Mar 31, 2013 5:02 am

Ok, obviously this is a decision I'll have to make myself, but some opinions &/or advice wouldn't hurt. This is my 4th semester at community college and so I should be transferring to university in the fall of this year. As of now, I've been an English major.

I love English. It is nice.

My grades so far have been 10 A's and 2 B's, and I'm about to add 4 A's to that (Scholars list 1st semester and President's list 2nd and 3rd, about to be 4th too). The plan was/is to get my BA, then MA, then doctorate. I want(ed) to teach English. I would love to do this.

But... it would be cool to be a pharmacist. I could wear a nice white coat and make out with the female pharmacists all day. I remember winning with something like this in the game of Life.

Now, I hate doing math, but I like math. Here's what I would have to do though, to come close to catching up to being able to transfer with a major in pharm. I would have to take:

Summer: college algebra, prob & stat, economics
Fall: chem 110, physics 201, bio 101, elementary calc
Spring: chem 111, physics 202, bio 102, public speaking
(possibility of adding a fifth course to each semester)
That is insane. 3 lab sciences and maths. And--AND--I would still need the next two courses in chem and bio (a year) to catch up completely.

Then, I could do my 2 years of BA, and then a nice 4 years of Dpharm. I would probably be 31 or 32 by then. (sweet)

As you can see, I only have a basic highschool background in math, which I took here in community college. (as I dropped out of 9th grade my 3rd year of highschool [cool story bro])

But I'm not really all that worried. I think I could make straight A's with this, or close as hell to it. One of the main reasons why I'm tempted to do it is because I feel like majoring in English isn't even a real education. It isn't pushing my mind out of any comfort level. I know I'm intelligent to some degree and I want to exorcise it. It feels like I'm betraying myself by not learning the hard subjects. Plus, with a career like that, student loans would be a breeze to pay off.

Essentially, I keep daring myself to do it (and I also usually make myself do things that svck for the sake of doing things that svck). I also like to throw giant wrenches in my plans.

Someone here state their opinions.
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