I am starting college in January. At the moment, I don't know where, but I have a few options lined up and am currently culling through my options to figure out what might be my best choice. While some might look at my blasé statement of "Oh, I don't know where, I'm sure I'll find SOME place that will take me," I do wish to assure you, dear reader, that I have in fact applied to, and received notice from a few institutions of my acceptance, I am simply not one of those people who had a "top choice" school in mind and was just waiting to hear back from them.
Truthfully speaking, this is not the first of my wave of attempts to go to college. Last winter, I applied to a bevy of universities, based on the plan that I would go to school in Chicago, as I consider that midwest city to be the most amazing place in the country (at least, the most amazing place in this country that I have so far seen). I applied, I was accepted, I enrolled, I moved out there.
And one week later, I moved back home to Pennsylvania. The school was no where NEAR what I had hoped for when it comes to the kind of rigorous training I was hoping for in my Baccalaureate training. I had entered the school's Sociology program, and after attending the first of my classes, I felt that I could have learned more by simply breezing through the "Life and People" section of Barnes and Noble and occasionally opening a book here and there to skim the pages.
That, and I think I may have been rooming with the anti-Christ, in teenage female form.
But regardless of that, and any emotional scars that I might have subsequently picked up from my experience, there is an even more pressing matter that must be resolved at the moment, and that is related to my future field of study. I have some schools lined up (the issue of possible demonic roommates having been solved by the decision to live at home, at least for this upcoming semester), and I must now turn a more serious eye to WHAT it is I will be learning about in my next few years of study.
Sociology is something that I am still interested in, due to my continuing, persistent, nearly frantic desire to understand how people think, what makes them tick, and why on earth society acts the way it does. But, what would be the point of going into such a program? I have no desire to work in the social work arena, and I don't want to go into practice as a counselor, so there's no clear path as to what I could DO with a sociology degree.
Lately, I have been considering the possibility of a Political Science degree. While I have previously never thought much of going into law, as it always seemed scary and confusing, kind of like trying to understand how a contractual cell phone plan actually worked, lately I have been thinking more of the possibility of going to law school (but not a contract cell phone. They still terrify me.) I am by nature very logical, and I very much enjoyed the one Political Science class I took at my community college. Seeing the practical implications of laws and policy made me feel like I actually understood a side of people's actions that I never considered: people act the way they do because they HAVE to, or sometimes because they're not SUPPOSED to. Maybe everyone would go out and get high way more often than they already do if it wasn't illegal. Or who knows, maybe everyone would stop once it wasn't so radical and exciting and rebellious.
Perhaps Political Science wouldn't be such a bad idea. I feel that studying law in conjunction with Sociology would also give me a certain edge, by both somewhat understanding how people work, and then being able to actually DO something to make them act better.
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