Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-08-08 13:11
Laurie:
Paul has the right idea there. I went back to college at age 25 when I didn't have but a few hours from my younger days . . . almost had to start from scratch. I wasn't a music major, but rather took accounting. I, too, suffered a lot of burnout with about 2 years yet to go.
Anyhoo, a wise and grizzled old counselor told me to take interesting, off the beaten path electives, because he said because my studies were so concentrated around my business major that I was suffering from "hardening of the categories."
I followed his advice and grabbed an eclectic bunch of electives like anthropology, logic, library science (cataloging), botany, genetics, calculus, drafting, history of the rennaissance & reformation, comparative religion, etc. The main thing was in each area I looked for interesting courses taken by those who were majoring in the field and rarely by those who don't. That way I had relatively small classes of students who were gung ho about the subject and profs who loved being there. The overall synergy made it lively and intersting, and my boredom & burnout went away.
I never would have imagined school could have actually been so much fun!
EuGene
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