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Year, uh, heck if I know. I've been taking dual enrollment classes for years getting all my general education credits and such out of the way. Now I'm 19 and three classes away from a B.A. in Criminal Justice because my mom suggested I go to law school. Well, after further research into just what being a lawyer actually entails, I've decided that while I don't mind the content, I don't want to work my behind off at law school just so I can work 60-70 hours a week. I just want a regular job I can do while still having time to, ya' know, have a life. I'm only three credits away from my current major, which I have no freaking clue what to do with - I'm not gonna become a police officer, and the other fields are crazy competitive to get into - so I'm meeting with an adviser today about doing a dual major in Computer Science. I'm hoping to graduate by 23, but it depends on how the program is structured.

I'm both excited and nervous for the new set of courses. I love what computer programming and such that I've done, but I took a so-called Intro course at CTY that basically expected you to have previous experience, kept partnering me up with obnoxious brats who had previous experience and wanted to do everything themselves out of frustration with me, and it just really turned me off of the whole thing. I was just a kid at the time, so rather than realize, "Hey, this is kind of a crappy class that's too advanced for new students and too basic for the experienced students," I thought, "Oh, I'm just too stupid for this." So now I'm admittedly a little bit paranoid that maybe young me is right, and I'm going to walk into that Computing Science I classroom as the only person who doesn't already have a comprehensive knowledge of the languages they're supposed to teach me. I learn just fine when people actually explain things to me. Not so much when they just expect you to be able to put a robot together and have it navigate through a maze on day one.

Oh, and of course I'm also a bit apprehensive about calculus, since it's been a little bit since I've taken a math course more complicated than statistics, but I'm going through some internet courses in algebra and trigonometry. Math is just memorizing rules and following steps, so I should be fine as long as I'm good with the fundamentals. And now that I'm not planning on law school, I don't have to stress so freaking much about keeping a 3.9 GPA. I mean, I still want a good GPA, of course, but I don't need to have a freaking vomit-inducing panic attack if I get so much as a single 'B.'

I'm in my first year now, actually. Finally coming to the last two weeks before finals this semester.

My goal at this point is to work in a museum - I want to end up in archiving and curating. So I need to a) get a history degree and b) find a school with a good program for museum work, I guess?
My problem right now is that the community college I'm attending has nothing useful. They have a big nursing program and a lot of different ones for cooking/baking but in terms of what I want to do, there are NO programs for a history degree of any kind (despite there being enough varied history classes to fill credit hours for a two-year), and not even any English programs, ridiculously enough, which is kind of the only thing I'd be willing to fall back on.

Bottom line, if I keep it up at the community college I'm gonna end up with a useless-a** associate's in general studies. I need to transfer somewhere but I don't know how that would work, or where I'd go, especially considering I'm not in any kind of position financially to move anywhere. Actually, there's a really excellent college in my city, St. John's, which I know has some really useful history programs, as well as classic literature, anthropology, ancient languages, a bunch of stuff I'm interested in. But, it's expensive as hell. I'm living off my leftover Pell grant right now.

Yikes. It all sounds so stressful when I write it out like this. sweatdrop

I'm a fourth year who is going for Recreation and Tourism studies and I also have an associates in Art! I was a full Art major at first but I kind of changed my mind in my sophomore year...But after I graduate with my RTS degree I will be going back to get my Fine arts degree. I literally have 6 classes left.

I'm a 2nd/3rd year of college. Because of dual credit in high school I started college classified as a junior but only a handful of those hours actually count for credit towards my degree. Currently my major is Biomedical Sciences/pre-vet with a minor in Psychology but I plan on changing my major to Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at the start of next school year. When I chose my major I didn't really put too much thought into it. I thought I'd like biomedical science because it's a pre-vet degree but most of the classes are pathology and I realized I didn't really like the classes. So I'm hoping to officially change my major next semester, needed to take a few biology courses first. Chose to change it to Wildlife and Fisheries because after talking to an advisor and looking over the degree plan I found out that the prerequisite classes were very similar to Biomedical Science's so I wouldn't have to retake any classes however the electives looked much more interesting. Wildlife and Fisheries would also meet the prerequisites for vet school if I decide to go that route. I don't quite know what I want to do after I get my bachelors, might go to grad school or vet school if I can get in. I'd like to be an animal behaviorist but I haven't decided if I'd want to do training or research. Animal enrichment seems pretty interesting to me so I'm gonna try to get an internship at a zoo this summer to see if that's something I'd actually like.