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So I have to declare my major in the next three weeks instead of at the end of May, like I previously thought. I'm kind of panicking. I mean, ok, here's the thing. I've known since like early high school I was going to be a psych major, and after being in college for a little over a year, that hasn't changed. But I thought I had until the end of next semester. This whole semester I've just been "I am going to get through this semester and hopefully do decently and then I'll worry about declaring a major and all that fun stuff." I just didn't want to deal with it now. But apparently by AP credits put me as a second semester sophomore right now, which means next semester I'm going to be a junior. And you have to have your major declared before you register for your junior year classes (and registration is the first week of November).

I'm also kind of freaked out by this because even though I knew I had advanced standing, I didn't realize this meant that I would have to declare early, and now I'm assuming this also means that I'm going to graduate fall semester of 2010. I've been thinking I'm going to graduate in May of 2011, but apparently, I'm going to graduate in December of 2010. And even though I'm kind of tired of school, I'm also freaked out about having to enter the real world and get a job and all that sooner (especially with how crappy the economy is. Hopefully Obama will be elected and he'll get the economy back on track and it'll be ok). ugh.

But yeah, like, just declaring a major isn't so bad because I know I want to be a psych major. But it also means that I have to deal with switching advisers because my adviser is a Geology professor and I really like him but he can't help me at all with psych stuff. And that means I have to ask someone in the psych department to be my adviser, and I know who I want to ask, but I'm afraid they'll be like "Oh I have too many advisees right now" or whatever and then I'll have to find someone else. And I'm shy, okay? I don't want to have to do this. Plus, declaring your major means you have to fill out a sheet with every class you're planning to take, and I don't want to have to fill that out now. I mean, my feelings about what I want to take change with every semester, you know? Plus, now it turns out I have one less semester of classes I can take, so I feel like I can't take as many fun, random classes. And I REALLY feel like I should have taken Cognitive Psych instead of Developmental Psych this semester because Developmental Psych doesn't help me for my major, but Cognitive Psych would, and then I could take this other class going towards the psych major next semester. And both Cognitive Psych and this class next semester are taught my my Research in Psych professor, and he's really awesome, so that would have worked out. I mean I like Developmental Psych, but it only helps me if I want to be an education minor, and I don't really see the point of that anymore, especially since I have 4 less classes I can take. And I did kind of want to be a math minor, but I don't know if that can happen either.

Also, I got several new pairs of cute socks (I never have enough socks) last week, and I've worn this one pair only twice and there's already a hole in the heel of one of them. This always happens to me! This is why I always need new socks! ugh. I feel like I must have razors in my heel or something that keep tearing through the socks.

Also, I'm finding it really amusing when crazy right-wingers try to insult Obama and scare people from voting for him by saying that he's a socialist and a fascist in the same sentence. Just... no. I do not think those words mean what you think they mean. So I'm mostly amused by that, but then I just get sad that people actually believe that and furthermore aren't educated enough to know that those two things are not the same.

Ok I have a three-page paper that is half done that I need to finish in the next two hours, so I'm going to do that now.

Comments

[fortunateizzi.livejournal.com]

I understand your stress. But don't worry, if for some reason you wanted to change your major/minor, I'm assuming it's not a big deal... it's not here anyway. Although we didn't have to list the classes we were planning to take, that's kinda crazy. All we had to do was write our major on a piece of paper and have a prof sign it, I think.