Well, today I went to go see a career counsellor.
Lately, I haven’t been too happy in this music degree. I’m failing one of my required courses, and the odds are good that I’ll have to repeat it. But it goes deeper than that. I don’t really like the bulk of my courses.
I don’t like singing lessons. I don’t like choir. I resent going to those concerts for credit. I HATE ear training. I don’t really like theory, but it’s one of the better ones. I’m not the biggest fan of the tech program around here. I don’t really like any of my classes this term, in the least amount. And I wanted to do this for a living? Do I want to be miserable for the rest of my life? At least last year I enjoyed my art history class. And I liked my music history courses too. So should I be a history major? I don’t really care about Canadian history, but I know I could probably do well in it. Writing papers and reading is something that I’m good at, I’ve always been in my element when doing that type of thing for school. Even if I was like “bah, ANOTHER friggin’ paper??” I’d still much rather write a paper than do sight singing. Because at the end of the day, I’d get a B+ on the paper and a D on the sight singing.
And with this whole archiving thing. I have the experience with the equipment to do it already, I have no more classes left to take for recording studio after this term. But I would probably have to take some librarian course to be able to be an archivist. I like working alone and at my own pace, so that would be something I would like. But do I want to go through more school?
Chances are, if I stick with this music degree then I will be here another two years. If I switch majors now, I could be here for awhile longer.
The other solution is to transfer to the states and be near Mike. Then it doesn’t matter how long it takes me to go through school, because we’ll be together. And really, that’s the most pressing issue as to why I want to graduate. I don’t want to be stuck apart for longer than necessary. I want to get married next June and not live apart anymore. Heck, I want to be together now.
So the counsellor gave me some things to think about and I’m going to stew them over. But first, I have to get through the next week and a bit, my jury is on the 16th, so after that I’m free to do whatever I want until my two exams. Hopefully I’ll at least figure out what I want to do with school.
Tags: Academia