"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Saturday, January 8, 2011

English Major?

~If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.
~Author Unknown

First off, what possessed me to become an English major. This is not what I like to do. Read seventy page poem things that are supposedly miraculous. Bleh! Who decided that?

I just want to write. To read things that are from THIS time period. Maybe the wrong view for an English major. Sorry. But that's how it is. I love reading. I do. But I like to read things I like. Duh, I know.

And the French thing, I understand. Learning the structure of another language teaches me about my own. But the fact that that one class requires more of my time than any other, is ridiculous.

There's my little rant. If I could just take creative writing classes I would. And religion. I actually do like those ones-even if they are CLASSES-with test and essays and everything. Not like institute, but at least I'm getting credit for it, right?

I thought many times last year how I would change my major just to get out of taking French. But I am smart enough to realize I would have to take math or science or something else I have just as hard a time with then...

There went my dreams of going into architecture...

But soon I'll be able to say I studied English-even though I will have forgotten the plot or structure or hidden meanings of "Beowulf."
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  1. Corey WilkeyJanuary 9, 2011 at 9:34 AM

    haha seriously! that was why i didnt declare engineering too! haha stupid math and science.

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