Triple the Workload, Triple the Fun!...
Wow, it's been a long time since I last posted. I just got overwhelmed with doing other stuff like staying up till 6 A.M. talking to people and procrastinating on my homework. There are lots of things floating around in my mind that I want to talk about, but right now I wanted to take a break from feeling philosophical and just let everyone know that I am indeed still alive.I will also take this opportunity to announce that, as of Friday, I am no longer one of those sad, lonely open major Freshmen. I am now shooting for a triple major in Philosophy, Psychology, and History, with a minor in Mathematics. I can just fit it all in. But since Paul didn't mention multiple major people in his otherwise brilliant and comprehensive exposition on the psychology of picking Majors, I wanted to add my opinion on the subject.
Telling someone you are a multiple major is the equivalent of saying: "I'm an overacheiving type A personality who never stops studying and never takes a break" To announce a multiple major is to become a snob in the eyes of others, as they look upon you and think, "He thinks he's too good for us, eh?" You are obviously the penultimate example of snobbery, but the general inclination is that you are also transformed into some kind of puritan, shunning all for the sake of your studies that will get you into the right graduate school, then the right doctorate program and then off to a job where you can finally pay back the fortune you owe in student loans. Also, no one expects a double major. Three times I've been cut off after saying "Philosophy" before I could explain to them that that wasn't all I was doing; this of course cemented even further the idea that I thought I was better than them.
There are several people in the Honors program going for double majors, some that I believe are more rigorous than mine (such as Biology and English, or Engineering and French) who have already suffered this fate, so I could estimate, in some ways, what the reaction to my announcement would be like. I was way off. I figure that the other people with multiple majors, even if they had a harder workload than I, were only double majors (only double majors!) and lots of people go for double majors. I am the only person I know of here who is going for majoring in three fields, and Pierre is the only other person I've heard of going for a triple major. This fact, and the fact that they are pretty unrelated fields, especially the minor in math, leads people to ask what my plans for the future are. When I say that I'm pretty sure I'm going for a masters degree in Eastern Classics, they ask me whether or not I'm totally insane.
Of course I am. I wish they would have asked me that at the beginning, and get it over with.
posted by Emmett @ 10:19
3 Comments:
Good luck with the insane workload, Emmett! And don't worry, we already know you're totally insane, so that's out of the way immediately.
But seriously, I can't think of many people who have a better shot at a triple major than you do. Go for it!
You can do a triple major? Okay...
And as for dances/bounces...interesting. And asking is another Utah thing. Oiy. Us Utahns. We're awesome! We think of random and completely spontaneous things to do, which explains a lot of the emails I give people....oh, I have to go email Miss P and tell her something!
I thought they wouldn't let you do that. I know it's almost expressly forbidden at the U. What's Pierre doing, anyway? I thought he wanted to be a mechanic.
So, the first thing that popped into my head was, "What kind of money are you going to be earning with that background?" The second thought was how much it was going to cost you in the first place, and the third was the workload! They all happened within 1 second of reading "Philosophy, Psychology, and History, with a minor in Mathematics."
Seriously, why mathematics? And what of psychology? I think I'd only take a psychology course again if they taught me how to hypnotize people. I know you love history, but in your most recent post you criticized the modern approach to history, or, rather relating history to today instead of keeping it pure and in context, if I understand your complex and shifting thoughts.
My fourth thought was that we'll see if you die before you graduate or if you give up on all that and find out you hate history, loathe trying to dissect thoughts, despise Plato and Aristotle for their puny minds, and wonder what in the world you were thinking when you ever took up mathematics. After you throw all those away, I'm betting you'll have an epiphany and realize you should do all those and add pre-med courses so you can pay off your Giza-Pyramids-sized student loans by becoming a brain surgeon. That'd be great for you, as you could dissect the synapses that create thoughts, and do a little experimenting with your background in psychology. Snip Snip! "Oops! My Bad. Hmmm. Interesting." You can use your philosophy knowledge to decide if what you are doing is right, and you can use your mad mathematics skills to add up all the dough you'll be earning doing a rewarding and fulfilling career. Oh, and you'll have to practice your numbchuck skills to fend off those pesky medical malpractice attorneys that will be swarming your office.
Gooooooood Luck!
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