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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:27 am

I'm currently a student who is rahter close to the middle of her college career. I am at the moment a psych major but I'm becoming very active with my universities theatre department outside of class. I'm trying to find a way to convince my parents to let me minor in theatre and to convince them to help me pay for the classes. Any advice on this matter would be greatly appricated.

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:50 am

sprite_of_the_shadows

I'm currently a student who is rahter close to the middle of her college career. I am at the moment a psych major but I'm becoming very active with my universities theatre department outside of class. I'm trying to find a way to convince my parents to let me minor in theatre and to convince them to help me pay for the classes. Any advice on this matter would be greatly appricated.

Tell them how much you are enjoying being involved in the theatre. More education is never a bad thing. You can always be involved in theatre on the side when you decide what your doing with psych. It will also broaden your resume with other activites. It's also could be a case study of different types of people your interacting with! wink

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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 9:58 pm

Tell them it helps you deal with difficult people and diffiecult circumstances. If that doesn't work, you can always try the line, "But it'll help me with public speaking." That's what I used on my mother.

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:53 pm

if your thinking maybe a career in theatre, check out the magazine-type-thing called 'ARTSearch". it has pages and pages of listings of jobs.
stopped my dad from bitching after a year of ...no really, that's my major.

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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:53 am

Theatre helps you relate to people. You meet a broad spectrum of different personalities and become a community and try to get along. It's like a city junior. I'd throw in the whole relacom thing, getting used to people outside a psych major and all that loveliness.

Good luck working your parents over. heart

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 7:52 pm

Just tell them you really want to do it. My mom wasn't happy when I told her I wanted to be a theatre major, but after I pressed the issue and showed that this was definetly what I wanted to do, she loosened up a bit.

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