Academic Future: Locked In

Yesterday I saw the first diet advertising itself specifically as an alternative to Atkins, by the way.

So I spent an hour or two this afternoon going over Lawrence's course offerings, requirements, etc., and I came to a few disappointing conclusions:

1. My moxy notwithstanding, it's impossible for me to major in Philosophy or Linguistics at this point. I have to stick with German and English.

Yeah, that was a shock. Required classes for both majors were offered while I was abroad and will not be offered next year, so although I have the time and energy, I'm out of luck.

No more holding my potential triple-major over everyone as if it makes me better than them. This also means that Symbolic Logic (which I took because it applied to both majors) was just as useless as it felt.

2. In fact, it's impossible for me to get even a minor in Linguistics.

I was bored, I'll admit, by my Intro to Linguistics class last year, but no one can honestly expect to like all aspects of a particular discipline other than English. Like Economics, Linguistics seems really boring but has some really capital factoids. (I'm still amazed that there's a culture which conjugates verbs differently for statements of varying reliability.) It would have been a hellish major, but it's a nice minor.

3. I can minor in Philosophy or learn about poetry, but not both.

One of today's odder revelations is the concurrence of English department poetry classes and required Philosophy classes. I really do have to choose, and as much as I'd like to learn more about Yeats and Eliot, the minor is more important.

4. I'm getting cut off.

Basically, I can't take more than a set number of English courses and still get credit for them. I like English. Looking at the classes I am able to take next year, I feel that I may love English. Lawrence, of course, envies and despises this love, and this is nothing but a shallow attempt to destroy it.

Still, I now know what I'm doing all next (school) year.