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Double Majoring/Japanese TV. A 2-in-1!
Mim
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TL;DR Having doubts about double majoring (English/psych) or double minoring (psych/Japanese). Which seems more feasible?
My second question is where can I go to download Japanese television shows (maybe some things off of Channel V, or random game shows, not really anime but I can toss that in there and some news shows) to put onto my ipod? I tried googling but that didn't help.
Anyways.
I recently had a major overhaul in thought process as to what I want to do with my life. I was, and still am at the moment, a Journalism major with the concentration in Magazines. I did this as a way of getting into public relations later on as a career after reading about the job in Electronic Gaming Monthly (I still have the article taped to my wall for inspiration). However, Journalism has turned out to be the wrong thing for me as it was TOO specific and to me there wasn't enough creative room so I decided to switch to English.
While for awhile I was okay with just being an English major. I could still do public relations and work on my grammar, arguing skills, vocabulary, and writing style while doing long drawn out stories as opposed to short articles that dealt with just fact and churning it out as quickly as you can. Then my mind started to panic as I didn't want to just be a writer, or have ANYTHING to do with journalism. I also realized that with my anxiety of having to talk to people I don't know, networking for a decent job in PR would be hard as well (though the pay check is definitely something that I think could motivate me to talk to people :winky:).
I asked friends and family what they saw me doing with my life and they all said writing, basically. I hated the thought that, that was all they saw me as. I knew I could do more with my life than just write and I know that I could over come my anxiety issues with talking to strangers eventually. I wanted my life to have more purpose than just writing and only becoming famous if I write the next Harry Potter or die. I especially didn't want future students to agonize over my work in AP or college classes trying to figure out what hidden themes and meanings were in my book (as I can assure you, the major theme would be "dildos" and the hidden meaning would be that I had severe penis envy as to why my heroine stabbed her husband, just to get back at all my English teachers).
I frequently thought about the medical field but I just feel like I do not have the time to really devote myself to that line of work. I would love to get married and have children and I'm not positive I would want to give all that up just to be a doctor where every time a patient died I'd be depressed and doubt myself as a doctor every day. Plus the student loans. It kept nagging at me though, so I thought about doing psychology. I am very interested in how the human mind works, but more specifically abnormal psychology. Something I could totally sink my teeth into!
As I wanted to keep my English major to help with my writing and research skills and also to have another means of finding a job, I thought about making psychology my minor. However, I would like to go to grad school for psychology which now totally doesn't make sense as I said before I do want a life. I do think that with the right planning I can have both the career in the medical field and the life I want especially with psychology if I have my own practice. The dilemma though is that I wanted to make Japanese my minor even though I also love art, computers and video games as well.
I told myself I can still practice my art and get better at it on my own (online tutorials), learn how to program for computers (again, online tutorials) and learn how to make video games for myself (hey there online tutorials!) but Japanese isn't something I can just do on my own. Not yet at least.
So I wanted to know, how hard is it to double major? Especially with two demanding degrees such as English and psychology. If it's too difficult, is it possible to double minor with psychology and Japanese? Temple University's undergraduate bulletin says that the minor for psychology fulfills the minimal requirements to get into some graduate schools (unfortunately not their own) so I thought I could put it as my minor but now I'm not sure.
Also, what branch of psychology do I study to get into abnormal psychology? There is clinical, and neuro-science but I'm having a hard time figuring it out.
While for awhile I was okay with just being an English major. I could still do public relations and work on my grammar, arguing skills, vocabulary, and writing style while doing long drawn out stories as opposed to short articles that dealt with just fact and churning it out as quickly as you can. Then my mind started to panic as I didn't want to just be a writer, or have ANYTHING to do with journalism. I also realized that with my anxiety of having to talk to people I don't know, networking for a decent job in PR would be hard as well (though the pay check is definitely something that I think could motivate me to talk to people :winky:).
I asked friends and family what they saw me doing with my life and they all said writing, basically. I hated the thought that, that was all they saw me as. I knew I could do more with my life than just write and I know that I could over come my anxiety issues with talking to strangers eventually. I wanted my life to have more purpose than just writing and only becoming famous if I write the next Harry Potter or die. I especially didn't want future students to agonize over my work in AP or college classes trying to figure out what hidden themes and meanings were in my book (as I can assure you, the major theme would be "dildos" and the hidden meaning would be that I had severe penis envy as to why my heroine stabbed her husband, just to get back at all my English teachers).
I frequently thought about the medical field but I just feel like I do not have the time to really devote myself to that line of work. I would love to get married and have children and I'm not positive I would want to give all that up just to be a doctor where every time a patient died I'd be depressed and doubt myself as a doctor every day. Plus the student loans. It kept nagging at me though, so I thought about doing psychology. I am very interested in how the human mind works, but more specifically abnormal psychology. Something I could totally sink my teeth into!
As I wanted to keep my English major to help with my writing and research skills and also to have another means of finding a job, I thought about making psychology my minor. However, I would like to go to grad school for psychology which now totally doesn't make sense as I said before I do want a life. I do think that with the right planning I can have both the career in the medical field and the life I want especially with psychology if I have my own practice. The dilemma though is that I wanted to make Japanese my minor even though I also love art, computers and video games as well.
I told myself I can still practice my art and get better at it on my own (online tutorials), learn how to program for computers (again, online tutorials) and learn how to make video games for myself (hey there online tutorials!) but Japanese isn't something I can just do on my own. Not yet at least.
So I wanted to know, how hard is it to double major? Especially with two demanding degrees such as English and psychology. If it's too difficult, is it possible to double minor with psychology and Japanese? Temple University's undergraduate bulletin says that the minor for psychology fulfills the minimal requirements to get into some graduate schools (unfortunately not their own) so I thought I could put it as my minor but now I'm not sure.
Also, what branch of psychology do I study to get into abnormal psychology? There is clinical, and neuro-science but I'm having a hard time figuring it out.
TL;DR Having doubts about double majoring (English/psych) or double minoring (psych/Japanese). Which seems more feasible?
My second question is where can I go to download Japanese television shows (maybe some things off of Channel V, or random game shows, not really anime but I can toss that in there and some news shows) to put onto my ipod? I tried googling but that didn't help.
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