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So... I met with my advisor today. And you know what it seems like? Seems almost certain is going to happen? After leaving French and grabbing lunch then wasting some time in Harper library writing what might turn into a Harry Potter-based story (because I like the idea of classifying people into the personality-based houses and then breaking the rules) and determining that my advisor was a very amiable and pleasant person (moreso than my former one, as far as I'm concerned, though it may have more to do with our first impressions of each other) despite being embarrassed that I was knocking on her door when she was standing about ten feet away from me talking to someone else (yes this sentence is still going on, but I like long lead-ins) I think by the end of the month, I will have declared myself a HIPS major. I don't think I've put any more thought to it lately, really... but in talking to my advisor about actually declaring, it didn't bother me at all. I still don't like the idea of walking into Englishmajordom dreading all the lit courses I'll have to take. No, we don't have a creative writing minor. No, we probably won't have one before I graduate. Nothing I can do about it. Does that stop me from taking enough classes in it to make it my minor? No. In fact, this also gives me room to not worry about a minor (since given our odd situation with majors/concentrations and all most people rarely care if you have a minor or not) and just take lots of random creative-type classes that aren't necessarily writing, either, like photography and film-making and such. I've got no idea what on earth becomes of someone majoring in History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine and spend their free time mucking about in art-type things, but I think I'm willing to find out. It probably doesn't involve becoming an editor, but what can you do? I mean, I wouldn't mind wandering academia until I end up with a doctorate, amassing debt, and then having some sort of strange crisis at 30 over what I'm supposed to do now with all this information I've gathered. (The answer will be, obviously, to wind it all together into a novel of some sort, sell it, and then retire to writing more). Yay! As either English or HIPS I'm going to end up with piles of old, dubiously useful reading, so why not let it be science and philosophy? Not that Chausser and Shakespeare aren't cool in their own ways (it's really the other guys in the middle that I don't like), but a little snobby part of me says I'll write better stuff if I haven't had to anaylze the crap out of everyone else's for years anyway. (This is the tiny part of me that also wants my influences to be as obscure as possible. Right now they take a leap from Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman to Plato and Aristotle, and I think that's the sort of cliff-jumping that most people wouldn't survive, let alone escape without breaking their legs, so maybe that tiny part of me should take it easy for now).
So, my friends... cheers! I believe my years as an undie may be at an end. I might even be beginning this year's NaNo as a HIPS major. Hehehe.
So, my friends... cheers! I believe my years as an undie may be at an end. I might even be beginning this year's NaNo as a HIPS major. Hehehe.
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DO IT!
as an astrophysics major and a philosophy minor, i command thee!
:-)
(in short: i approve!)
(and, if it comes down to it, you can always work for me, hehehe...or, work WITH me, perhaps i should say.)
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(just to be extra annoying)
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