I CHANGED MY MAJOR!
Yes, I am finally getting it together and preparing to close out my college years. Can you believe I am already in the fall semester of my junior year? Yikes!
After my Spain freak out (I forgot I had even applied in April and couldn’t believe I got accepted on an incomplete application), I decided to do some soul searching and really see where I wanted to see my college career to end. I decided to go back to NYU’s website and truly think about which majors reflected my intellectual interests and what I wanted to have branded on my diploma. Currently, I am in an AMAZING Contemporary African Literature class here in London and at first I thought my enjoyment was solely based on my love for African studies and my people (not to mention an EXTREMELY animated professor lol), but I realized that I have always liked reading, writing, and analyzing the meaning of authors’ works. The Comparative Literature department at NYU basically issues undergraduate degrees for just that: to analyze different literary texts across cultures and languages while taking into account the social context and political context in which they were written. The funny thing is just about all of my courses in African studies transfer to fulfill my new Comparative Literature major AND I will fulfill the 2 foreign language literature course requirements next semester in Spain! I simply have four courses to take next year before I graduate and then I’m DONE! (not to mention that I just got out of taking BORING required archeology and human evolution courses for my Anthropology major) BYE, BYE Anthropology, HELLO Comparative Literature!
Plus, Mom always said that I was the reader of the family!
