This week, (which should have been last week) has been uneventful in the eyes of a blogger like myself. I've found myself in a game of questioning what I want to do, and how I want to get there.
Because I love theater I came to UNC to pursue a degree so that I could teach students in high school about theater. I thought that I would minor in earth sciences and be content learning about great playwrights and then learning about the Paleocene, but what I've found out is that I enjoy a wide variety of interests, one of which being geology, but beyond a certain level I find it to be complicated and boring. So in my continuing search for answers I've been trying to decide what to change my minor to, or if I even want/need a minor.
I've considered ESL since teachers today, or shall I say educators need to know how to help the growing number of students who do not grow up in a household where English is the primary language. In looking at this minor though the thought of taking classes that don't fully catch my interest concerns me, especially as just a minor.
For about a month I decided that I would minor in English, to please all of the people who recommended it as a minor, but that negates the fact that I really do not enjoy English enough to do that, and if I were to have to teach an English class I would pity the students who had me.
I considered other minors too, but I keep coming back to whether or not I actually need a minor, or if I will just survive with the theater degree. I just want to teach theater, not English or math or science, but I know that to some degree to find a job I may need it... will I be able to get a job in two years if I don't pick something and just deal?
Crazy decisions like this are what goes through my mind. I want to know what to do, and of course everyone has an opinion, but in the end it is figuring out what I want to do, and what I'll be happy with come May of 2010.
Because I love theater I came to UNC to pursue a degree so that I could teach students in high school about theater. I thought that I would minor in earth sciences and be content learning about great playwrights and then learning about the Paleocene, but what I've found out is that I enjoy a wide variety of interests, one of which being geology, but beyond a certain level I find it to be complicated and boring. So in my continuing search for answers I've been trying to decide what to change my minor to, or if I even want/need a minor.
I've considered ESL since teachers today, or shall I say educators need to know how to help the growing number of students who do not grow up in a household where English is the primary language. In looking at this minor though the thought of taking classes that don't fully catch my interest concerns me, especially as just a minor.
For about a month I decided that I would minor in English, to please all of the people who recommended it as a minor, but that negates the fact that I really do not enjoy English enough to do that, and if I were to have to teach an English class I would pity the students who had me.
I considered other minors too, but I keep coming back to whether or not I actually need a minor, or if I will just survive with the theater degree. I just want to teach theater, not English or math or science, but I know that to some degree to find a job I may need it... will I be able to get a job in two years if I don't pick something and just deal?
Crazy decisions like this are what goes through my mind. I want to know what to do, and of course everyone has an opinion, but in the end it is figuring out what I want to do, and what I'll be happy with come May of 2010.
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