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Post by Angel on Jul 5, 2011 20:08:29 GMT -5
When did you first realize that you wanted to become an English major? Was there anything in particular that inspired you to want to do so?
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Post by Olive on Jul 6, 2011 7:49:46 GMT -5
I first realized about halfway through my freshman year of high school. Up til that point, I had wanted to major in Astronomy (shhh), or another hard science, though I think creative writing had always been at the back of my mind. That year I started paying more attention to career options, and the most likely result for my science-y plans sounded... boring.
I was sitting in the sophomore English class with a really awesome teacher, and we were reading Taming of the Shrew. I had always loved Shakespeare, and something clicked... I want to spend my life reading and writing, and sharing that passion with others (in the form of lording over them as a professor >.>).
So... yeah!
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Post by embonpoint on Jul 6, 2011 7:54:48 GMT -5
I don't really think I ever had a moment like that. I've always, always loved English and so it was always there at, or near, the top of the list.
I did take a bit of a detour when I thought I wanted to be a surgeon, but then I realised I didn't and went straight back to English. It's just always been my 'thing'.
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alyoshka
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Post by alyoshka on Jul 6, 2011 8:58:57 GMT -5
I realized how unhappy I was with Chemistry and how I actually enjoyed English
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jul 6, 2011 12:57:21 GMT -5
In elementary school I was one of those nerdy kids that was miraculously good at everything (*sighs* good times). It wasn't until I took a reading level placement test in middle school and found out I was reading at a really high level that my interests began to narrow towards English. So that got me picking up a lot of books in the library (at first to show off my books that seemed like Pig Latin to my friends, and then because I really started to enjoy them) and we've been in love ever since.
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Post by andreaisabbbw on Jul 6, 2011 12:59:58 GMT -5
I don't really think I ever had a moment like that. I've always, always loved English and so it was always there at, or near, the top of the list. I did take a bit of a detour when I thought I wanted to be a surgeon, but then I realised I didn't and went straight back to English. It's just always been my 'thing'. I did the same thing when I seriously considered switching to nursing or computer science. I realized with horror that a life without books is not worth living. English is home. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jul 6, 2011 15:10:43 GMT -5
I've wanted to be a writer since I was four -- English was just the logical major toward that end.
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Post by Dodger Thirteen on Jul 6, 2011 23:10:20 GMT -5
When I realized that Anthropology didn't pay.
Oh, wait...English doesn't pay either.
I like stories.
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Post by Gina on Jul 7, 2011 9:43:12 GMT -5
Well, when I finally get to college, I'll be a secondary education major with a focus in English. I'm hoping that still counts.  I had always wanted to be a teacher, but I had no clue what I wanted to teach. I had thought of English, but I had also wanted to be a Spanish teacher. I had my big epiphany when I was sitting in Sophomore English learning about Macbeth. I had an awesome teacher that year, and I was thinking "Wow, if I was ever teaching Macbeth, I would do it like this". Then it clicked- I finally realized I wanted to be an English teacher. I feel like I just rambled a bit, so: tl;dr- I realized I wanted to be an English teacher in Sophomore English while learning about Macbeth. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jul 8, 2011 0:51:30 GMT -5
I was being taught the Scarlet Letter in my junior year of high school. My teacher assigned us a paper where we had to pick out as man potential symbols from the story as possible. Afterward, he told us that no one saw the significance of the forest. I'd never thought a forest could be a symbol before. It seems so obvious now, but back then, it blew my mind.
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Post by tosney on Jul 18, 2011 10:42:37 GMT -5
I've wanted to write books since I was little. I guess I've wanted to be an english major (technically, creative writing, but that's considered a facet of english, right?) since I found out that's how I can study books and writing in college.
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 26, 2011 23:17:46 GMT -5
After 5 years of Biology major and struggling with the same bloody math class 5 times in a row, I realized just how boring I found it. I thought i wanted to be a lab technician, and it seemed like a good idea at the time. However, as I took different classes and even went as far as to do research projects I realized I wasn't passionate about lab work. There was no enthusiasm in it. Yet I was so frustrated that people don't read. I realized then and there that I was passionate about Literature. I loved reading and loved writing. So I decided to finally follow through and become an English Literature Professor.  |
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Post by tosney on Jul 27, 2011 10:53:38 GMT -5
After 5 years of Biology major and struggling with the same bloody math class 5 times in a row, I realized just how boring I found it. You have no idea how much I admire your persistance. I could never, ever take the same math class that many times and continue to do something I found tedious for that long. I can barely get through one year of a class I find boring, and even then I don't give as much attention to my work as I should. |
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