What I've done at MSU....

Well, Sexson wants us to all look back and think about our classes we have taken here at MSU....
This is my sixth... and hopefully final year here... So there are many many classes to look back on. Here is the somewhat brief ( but still very informative) blog about my past here at MSU.

Before i was an Eng Lit major i had a couple others ...... when i first came to MSU i wanted to study something that was interesting for me, and something that i truly enjoyed. So my first semester i applied to the Art program. i have always enjoyed art - and always loved painting, so as soon as i could i took a painting class. Once the semester got into full swing, i started to absolutely loathe picking up a paint brush and creating something that i knew once finished, wouldn't be my best work. I then realized that i needed to try some other classes in the Art dept, and not just focus on the painting. But once i started taking other Art History classes and studio classes, i hated school even more. Art, painting especially had always been my main hobby, it was the one thing that i always had for an outlet. I felt that i was using up all of my creative juices, and nothing i was doing was worth it. So i decided to switch my major to a much more .... should i say.... reliable major.

Business classes were by far THE WORST classes i have ever taken. Yes i know that they aren't that challenging and not difficult to get through. But whoa were the boring, my attention span in those classes were about a minute and then i would totally zone out. And besides the silly business classes, i had to take math classes...... and that was even worse! Calculus.... really!? so after surprisingly passing through my accounting classes, algebra, and calculus.... i started for the really fun ones.... Stats... ha, after trying to get through that class twice i decided i needed a new major if i wanted to get a degree.....

So i started to talk to friends that had different majors, i talked with a couple advisers and had narrowed it down to a couple things, it was gonna be either philosophy or just a liberal arts degree. But with both of those i was a bit behind in all the classes that i would needed... so one day i came home feeling quite defeated and sat down in my room to think about what i was going to do......As i looked around my room, there i realized what i should study! Books, books everywhere! Through out school my favorite classes were always English. My favorite teachers were always my English teachers. So there you go... the rest is history... i called my mother to tell her that her daughter was going to graduate with and English Lit degree... no i wasn't going to take the teaching option... and i signed up for my classes that next day.

I had never really thought about my decision of becoming an English lit major as an Epiphany... but if the epiphany is something that is seen.... then right when i saw those books sprawled through my room and flashbacks of favorite classes and teachers... i knew what i was supposed to study....