Lately

So I haven't really been procrastinating writing this blog, I have just been preoccupied with another one. For one of my classes I have to keep a blog, so with that and other class work I have been a little busy.

We are reading Dante's Inferno currently. If for some reason anyone is interested in the nonsense I spurt out after reading sections of Dante then they can click here. If not then you can continue reading the nonsense I spurt out here.


We went through a blizzard last week here in Wisconsin... you may have heard about it. I was without heat the next day. It was cold. I didn't really get many pictures, but here is one of a bench that had been semi-cleared off just to get an idea at the level of snow.

It has felt like I've been here a month, but it's only been a week. Funny how time feels sometimes. I went through a sort of panic when I first got here. For some reason several people in different situations all in the same day questioned my choice of major. That's not to say that I started all of a sudden questioning my choice it just made me question it all over again.

I've felt okay about it since I've been here. It always helps me to actually be in a classroom learning it from a professor (unless the professor is an idiot which has been known to happen) instead of trying to teach myself from a book. It has made me more interested in the major. Besides I have studied the college catalog and I feel that this major is the best choice for me and will give me the best options after college. Then why did I still feel the need to panic?

I finally figured out that mostly my choice felt incomplete. Business wasn't the problem it was the fact that business is a little too vague. Yes I can do several things with a business education, but it would be nice if I had a specialty or something that made me stand out. I needed an area that I can work towards. I'll be a junior in the fall. While everyone tells me not to worry and that I have time, I know for myself I need to be working towards what I want to do. People don't seem to understand that.

I went through trying to figure out what I could major in if I changed, but I just ended back up with Business (call me chicken I don't care). Then I decided to find something else to double major. I had been interested in Asian Studies and Japanese before, so I decided to look back at those majors. Okay I cannot major in Japanese, because I need four years of the language. Okay Asian Studies then. Oh man I would have to take a summer session just to get enough courses in to double major and there is no guarantee that the courses that I would need to take would be offered that semester. Well I can minor in it and Japanese courses count towards it. I will continue to major in Business (as long as I can get through accounting this semester heh) and minor in Asian Studies. That way I have a specific area I could try to pursue if I wanted, I am learning a language I am interested in, and I have courses that are different so I don't burn out on business courses. Calm.

I don't know if any of that makes sense, but that's what I went through at the beginning of this semester. All that in one week. I feel much better though. Now I am back to worrying about getting good grades this semester and doubting my academic skills. Sometimes I throw a little stress in about getting in shape for my summer trip, so I break up the ridiculousness.

Such is my mind. Such is my life.