Author: EEBaum
Date: 2010-10-16 05:15
As for not changing your mind, you never know. For years (from the time I was 4 until my mid 20s), my passion was computers, computer games, etc. I inhaled everything, was darn good at it, was named the department's outstanding graduate, won contests, interned at a computer game company, etc. By the time I graduated, I'd lost the drive, passion, and even moderate interest. Worked a couple years in industry as I regrouped... I can still go back if I want (fallback for a paycheck), but at the moment am so far gone that I've been mulling the possible consequences of not having a computer at all.
Keep your options open, and do try as much as you can in your undergrad. You may think now that you have no interest in anything else, but that may just be because you haven't been exposed to something you'd like even better. A year before I graduated, I took a bio class, and was so enthralled that I about wanted to declare a minor. Only a bit of "two majors is enough, now's time to graduate, you'll have to live vicariously through someone else" got me moving on. I might well also have felt that way about linguistics if I'd ever taken a class in it... that's another "stay away or you'll get sucked in" field of mine. Maybe for my mid-life crisis I'll go back to school for that.
I wouldn't look at it as "in case music doesn't work out" but rather "in addition to music." It's a great time to explore what's out there. Don't put blinders on just yet.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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