I’ve been researching possible majors, and all the sites I went to for computer science majors were all ugly and text-based. I selected “Graphic Design” and went to the first site and it was all beautiful with a complimentary color scheme implemented in CSS. Lol, I think I know what direction I want to go in.
However, art isn’t exactly lucrative. Man, I have no clue what I want to do.
My main interests:
Computers
Writing
Art (specifically design and visual arts)
I feel like I’m boxing myself into a corner and I see images of Tom Waldrat and Diane Keane, stuck with their BAs in subjects they aren’t too good at. Diane is a great artist, but her teaching skills suck, Waldrat is a failure on all fronts. I just feel like I’m going to wish I could go back and change my major in like twenty years. Hmm. I feel like getting out the old Drift dartboard and making a “choose-a-major” game. How do you decide between your passions when they are all so closely related? I use my computer to write and share art, yet I don’t know whether I like creating things simply because I’m using the computer to do it or that I love the finished product. My loves are inextricably linked. Hmm.
I’m just stressed out and I don’t have enough memory to run voice-rec reliably. It makes me angry. Well, my wrists are killing me. I have to go.
Are you kidding? Graphic design is a GREAT major. If you don’t believe me, open up a major newspaper and see if the classifieds are hiring anyone with a degree in graphic design. Talk to a faculty member in a program where it is taught and ask what kind of jobs you can reasonably hope to get. That’s part of their job: working with upper-division undergrads as they move toward graduation. Tom and Diane between them know very little about computers. But you could be working designing all kinds of interesting things with computers or for computers.