I need help in finding a college. Please, please, please!?
I don’t quite know what I want to major in, but I was looking very closely at either philosophy and religion, or maybe film making, and there’s a part of me that wants to study math. Okay, fine, I’m all over the place.
Here’s what I want: to get a bachelors degree (in something). After wards, to join the peace corps for two years, and after that to start working. I really prefer the idea of a job without a boss, or just a very flexible job where I can set my own hours. I enjoy studying, research, I adore science and music and adventure.
Frankly, I want to be an influential person who can exhaust either her brain, her body, or both on a daily basis. I have a 4.0 GPA in community college right now. I’m only seventeen and have been going to my current college since last year. I wont be eighteen till next september btw. I have a nice track record of volunteering at the local library and YMCA, not to mention I am a paid tutor at my college.
I really don’t want to go into debt over a college education, but if I can find the right school, that isn’t a problem- though a big part of me hope’s that my mind is brilliant enough to get off primarily on scholarships and grants.
I am willing to go just about as far as I have to for the right school, and I do have applications at a couple of places, but if they don’t work out, I need to keep searching. Thanks! I appreciate your time!



May 17th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Scholarships usually go to the students who are really focused on one thing. If, after two years in college, you haven’t isolated your passion, maybe you should try the peace corp or some kind of mission first.
Talk to a peace corps recruiter and see what skills they are looking for. There were times when the Corps held no interest for me because they wanted accountants and business managers.
The way to get to set your own hours on jobs is to be willing to quit a job and go find another. You will never get rich that way, but you may have a very interesting and fulfilling life. (Okay you may find yourself bordering on poverty frequently, especially if you aren’t great at saving.) Being brilliant really doesn’t count for much at work. But you only said you planned to use that for scholarships, so you may be good on that count.
May 17th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
You could go to just about any large university and study philosophy, religion, math, music, science, etc. At some, you could put a number of interests together and design your own individualized major. You sound like the sort of person who could become a college professor, and I would encourage you to go on for your Ph.D. and specialize in some type of research that gets you out of the lab and into the field frequently (anthropology, marine biology, ecology, wildlife biology, cultural studies, geology, …).
If, though, if you don’t like the idea of working in academia, I’d suggest you study entrepreneurship at a business school and start your own business doing something that you love to do and that the world is willing to pay for.
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