declaring majors

sidekick · #1 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

i feel so old! i just declared my major as sociology. i'm happy, but scared at the same time.

up until now school was just fun, but now i have to actually think about what i want to do in my life!

someone save me.

decypher · #2 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

Feel lucky that u have started some direction. Im gonna declare a poli sci major, but i need to retake a few courses to get my grades up enough to transfer to UBC, pissing me off.

bebu*funfun · #3 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

CONGRATS!!!!!
best feeling ever eh. i "declared" my major.. more like made it in the department just a few months ago and i feel like i can take over the world now. huge congrats on declaring sociology! great choice!

sidekick · #4 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

^thanks :)

hopefully it's going to be a double major in creative writing and sociology by the end of next year!

decypher · #5 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

Jake how is the creative writing at UBC?

sidekick · #6 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

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Jake how is the creative writing at UBC?

i actually have no idea yet!

you have to apply with a manuscript of your writing to get into the classes and i just did that and got accepted into screenplay and short story fiction writing...so ask me again at the end of next school year! i'm hoping it's good :)

now i have to plan my entire schedule around those two classes though.

decypher · #7 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

I've always loved writing, what kinda stuff do you write? I need to take more courses in that area to sharpen my skills

sidekick · #8 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

i write mostly short stories and short screen plays. i've been slowly working on a novel for the past two years or so, but since i'm so busy with school and stuff i hardly have time to really work on it that much. i wish i did. sometimes i write poetry, but i don't really dig a lot of the poetry i write.

i would love to exchange stuff with you sometime. get some criticism and such, if you're down with that.

decypher · #9 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

Aight i'll attempt to write something, sometimes i have great ideas. I just find it hard to get in that zone and actually complete something.

I like writing critiques and analysis of ideas and concepts. I should try my hand at some fiction though.

sidekick · #10 (**permalink**) Jun 21, 05

yeah man, one of the hardest parts it getting from the idea-zone to the writing-zone. they are so different it's like they are on the opposites sides of the creative writing world. i really have to force myself to sit down and write sometimes, but i'm glad i do because i usually get something out of those sessions.

i always keep my writing notebook around with me as well because inspiration pops up in the weirdest places sometimes and i don't want to miss something. it's full of random sentences, paragraphs, ideas and drawings.

yoko* · #11 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

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Originally Posted by Sidekick

i feel so old! i just declared my major as sociology. i'm happy, but scared at the same time.

up until now school was just fun, but now i have to actually think about what i want to do in my life!

someone save me.

i declared mine last semester.. same major.. (sociology)

yay for declaring sociology majors... i think. :P

SEAN! · #12 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

i declared my major and six months later decided it was a mistake.

now i hate sociology.

p.s isnt sociology and creative writing the same thig? haha

nortexoid · #13 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

yo, that's major POOOOOOO. school is overrated.

pbreak · #14 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

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Originally Posted by decypher

Jake how is the creative writing at UBC?

apparently very good, but mind you this is heresay.

Jake, stop whining... "Oh no, I've declared my major, I'm sooooooo old." No your not, you're like 18 still. Now when I go back this fall and take classes with all you little kids, then I will for surely feel quite ancient indeed.

ps. have you registered yet?

sidekick · #15 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

sean: sociology definitly involves a lot of writing, but hell, i love writing. it doesn't really allow me to do any creative writing though, since most of it is essays and papers and such. you hate sociology now? i've always been interested in it, ever since i was a kid.

bryan: stop comparing my life to yours all the time. yes, in comparison to you, i'm not that old (i'm NOT 18 by the way...i'm less than two months from being 20). but i feel old when i think about myself and when i think about how my sister is graduating high school next year. not everything is in comparison to your own life ;)

i haven't registered my courses yet (july 5th) but i have declared my major online. and yeah, i heard the Creative Writing program was really good here too (hence hard to get into the major program) so i'm excited about the classes that i do have.

-ff- · #16 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

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Originally Posted by Sidekick

up until now school was just fun, but now i have to actually think about what i want to do in my life!

no you don't!

I have a degree, and I have absolutely no idea what I want to do with my life.

sidekick · #17 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

^that makes me feel better.

also, simon, you'll be happy to know that i want to take a poli sci course (or a couple) could you recommend some to me? do i have to take the 100 classes to be able to take the upper level ones (and will i be completely lost if i don't take those). i was looking at 101: Canadian Government. any help would be appreciated!

-ff- · #18 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

Try and get into 240 if you can - intro to political theory and philosophy. Take it with Bruce Baum if he's teaching it.

lithe · #19 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

101 is AWFUL. well, i hated it.

oh, and add me to the "have a degree and no direction" list as well.

sidekick · #20 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

thanks, lithe. i'll rethink it.

simon, it's taught by david macdonald? any good?

-ff- · #21 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

never heard of him

decypher · #22 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

International relations courses are fun poli sci, at least i thought it was. I have no idea what i'm gonna do with my poli sci degree, i just know i enjoy it alot, along with history and writing. I was thinking of getting into journalism maybe, dunno what else u can do with a poli sci degree besides going into LAW.

sidekick · #23 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

the journalism program at UBC is supposed to be really really good and very hard to get into. you should totally try and then we could be school buddies and have lunch together (by lunch i mean beer)

decypher · #24 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

You need a portfolio to apply to the UBC school of journalism, so i guess i should try and get into the douglas school news paper and such. I was thinking of getting a poli sci degree at UBC to give me time to smarten up, get some quality work for my portfolio before applying to the school of journalism.

sidekick · #25 (**permalink**) Jun 22, 05

there's also a new paper coming out called 'transformational times' and they're looking for writers, i know. i can hook you up with the email address if you like. i'm still deciding whether i want to do it or not. it's supposed to be all uplifting stories to combat all the sad and scary ones in the news right now. but i'm too cycnical and sarcastic to write uplifting stories about people overcoming hard times.