All about Chemistry

Piggybacking off of ofcabbagesandkings's earlier blog, Why am I a major in Media Studies?? It’s a kinda weird story actually. I came in to college as a chemistry and marine biology major. What changed that??? I don’t know. Actually, 4 hour chemistry labs probably had a lot to do with it. Some of it was also probably not having an outlet for creativity in the areas I was studying. Studying chemical equations made me miserable and I hated not being able to input my opinion into any of it. Memorizing equations and how to complete formulas was just not what I wanted to do for four years of my life. And really, honestly… what was I going to do with a chemistry major?? I didn’t want to be pre-med, didn’t want a career in lab-work of any sort, and didn’t want to invest a lot of time into a major that was making me miserable if I didn’t have an intended career path connected to that major. So I dropped sciences all together. Let's just say my parents weren't extremely pleased but are and were very suppportive. But I had no idea what to study. Spanish was an obvious option, but I’d been studying that for so long that I kind of wanted something new. So I started completing ge’s and for my art requirement took intro to photography with ken Gonzalez-Day at Scripps. I loved it, loved the creative opportunity, loved the fact that it was completely opposite of what I had been doing, except for the fact that I was using a lot of the chemicals to develop my photos that I had studied in general chemistry courses. Anyway, many of my classmates were media studies majors and convinced me to try some courses in media studies. I took Video and Diversity and Asian Americans in the Media and really enjoyed both. But I still don’t really know why I’m a media studies major or what I’m going to be doing in 6 months. I’m trying to find an internship in sports media, since sports are a huge part of my life. I’d love something such as promotion or broadcasting for the NFL, but I’m looking for internships because I have no idea if that is even what I want to do at all. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that I really have no idea what I’m doing with this major, but I have been so happy with it that I don’t really even care. The criticism and slack I get from peers for being a media studies major is fine because they don’t understand that it is a lot of work and clearly an important subject to study. Ok, enough about me…