Perfect '10- Cristine

Switching majors is not easy. In fact, switching majors is incredibly confusing and hard to do…if you don’t know what you want to do, which is precisely my problem. Now going from the liberal arts school to the business school is really not too big of a deal; take a few economics classes here, a few communication classes there, and you’re good to go. But then Christmas break happens, and people sign up for classes, and then your options are limited. Realizing halfway through break I may actually decide to switch to business, I figured I should drop the extra English I wouldn’t need and take a more versatile class. Being someone who would rather get all the gross, core classes out of the way early and not waste time, I figured this would be smart. So open registration begins, and I begin the hunt for a new class. I spent days hunting for the perfect replacement, and two days later the answer came to me: a History 106 class that was offered at the same time as my English class and still had spots open. Perfect! I drop my English class, and go back to the page only to find out that great, the History class is honors. SUPER! So now I’m only at 13 hours and life just sucks. So I decide to take another economics class, at eight in the freakin’ morning — something I swore I would never do to myself again, as long as I lived. I begrudgingly signed up and then something amazing happened. I was browsing through classes in utter desperation when I realized that I didn’t have to take History 106, and believe me, military history at 2:20 p.m. never looked any better. So I signed up, knowing that the grief given by my friends accusing me of being a so-called “boot chaser” (which I actually am not) would be never-ending. The first day of class surprised me; I realized this history class was way more interesting than U.S. history, and totally met my expectations — the class was 90 percent male.