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 Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:12 am
I was never really interested in anything major for the first half of my high school year. i kept switching off from robotics engineer to chef to computer analyst to whatever.
Then by my junior/snior years, i was getting really excited about history. i loved our world's past and looking at amazing things from the ancient world. Granted, some interest did come from the Indiana Jones films (but i may remind you, most archaeologists will say the same thing. xp ) So now im makin archaeology my major
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:39 am
I pretty much always loved history and I was good at it in school. In high school I was big into Egyptology but over the years it's shifted to a more worldwide interest with a current focus on European (and specifically) Scandanavian history. I only recently figured out that I loved it enough to make it my life though. So for now, I'm planning to major in anthro/archo with a minor in medieval studies. After that, we'll see where graduate studies take me.
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Posted: Sun Sep 12, 2010 6:52 pm
My destiny shifted in 9th grade smile
I made the fateful decision to drop art in favor of taking Latin 1, where I fell in love with antiquity. My subsequent arrival at the field of archaeology might seem superficial, but honest to god, it's a true story.
I was a junior in high school beginning my college search, with no clue what I wanted to major in. I loved art history, classics, and foreign languages, but I knew that it was unlikely that I would be able to major in all three.
I was in the midst of playing Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption on P.C, and I met a fictitious vampire c** archaeologist named Beckett.* Now, this character wasn't particularly impressive. But I reached a part of the game where we went back into the storeroom of a museum, something that I had never seen in person or seen pictures of. But everywhere I looked there were stores of artifacts, each with their own history and culture. Suddenly I put two and two together and realized that I could live in the world of all of the disciplines I loved, if I only made my career goal to become an archaeologist!
The next three years were eventful, to say the least, but now I'm well on my way to a bachelor's in Anthropology, Geographic Information Science, and Classical Studies. In another two and a half years, I hope to tell you all that I'm in grad school!
*Yes, the allusion to Samuel Beckett was intentional on behalf of the game creators.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 7:13 am
When I was a little kid, I wanted to be Indiana Jones or a pirate. But doesn't every little kid dream of that?
I've always been interested in anthropology/archaeology, but didn't really decide to go into it until my senior year of high school. My older sister is also an anthropology major, but she likes physical. What really did it for me was learning about maritime archaeology and dealing with seafaring peoples and shipwrecks. I did have a brief interlude of "I'm not going to be an archaeologist, I'm going to be a linguistic anthropologist!" but let's face it, that's just not that exciting. blaugh
So now I'm in my senior year of undergrad, and working my a** off to try to get into Bristol University for my masters in maritime archaeology, emphasis in 17th and 18th century British naval ships, and Caribbean/trade routes.
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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:55 am
Meanah When I was a little kid, I wanted to be Indiana Jones or a pirate. But doesn't every little kid dream of that? I've always been interested in anthropology/archaeology, but didn't really decide to go into it until my senior year of high school. My older sister is also an anthropology major, but she likes physical. What really did it for me was learning about maritime archaeology and dealing with seafaring peoples and shipwrecks. I did have a brief interlude of "I'm not going to be an archaeologist, I'm going to be a linguistic anthropologist!" but let's face it, that's just not that exciting. blaugh So now I'm in my senior year of undergrad, and working my a** off to try to get into Bristol University for my masters in maritime archaeology, emphasis in 17th and 18th century British naval ships, and Caribbean/trade routes. ooh!!!! sounds thrilling! maybe you'll get to study Port Royal!
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