Making my way

[ 27th may, 2026 • day 23/80 ]

not much studying getting done tbh :/

-> went to a book fair!! BOOKS!!

-> therapy (total: 1h00)

🎧 Hanging Out To Dry, by Florence Road

23 May 2026 🌤️

Gave my second to last presentation of the semester yesterday! As is my personal tradition, here's what I still have to accomplish before summer break starts:

one last presentation (which is almost finished)

3 finals

[ 21st may, 2026 • day 17/80 ]

would love some consistency with the notation used in this worksheet please and thank you

-> calc3 worksheet 7 (notes + exercises: 2a-b, 3, 4a-d, 5a-c, 6a-d, 7)

-> journaled

[ 20th may, 2026 • day 16/80 ]

will try to journal more often to deal with the stress. will try to not panic too much. most things can be fixed. it’s scary, but fixable.

-> therapy (total: 1h00)

So I’m in college and I have no idea what I want to major in. My heart says literature but that isn’t going to make me money and college is EXPENSIVEEEEE. So I’m looking at a program called ‘interactive art and technology’. I know graphic design itself isn’t a huge moneymaker but this program combines UX UI design, game design, programming, etc with graphic design and everything. I have no idea who to talk to to make sure that this is a lucrative career. A prof I had told me that graphic design is a lucrative career but I don’t believe her cause she’s probably been out of the market for years. I wonder if my advisors will even give me a correct answer about asking for pay (I’m kinda ashamed of asking about pay myself), and I wonder who I can ask? How do I know if it’s a good industry to work in? How can I get an honest opinion of it? (Like, I know programming is a moneymaking major but since this program is arts oriented to, I wonder if it will even be lucrative?) And what do I do if it turns out it’s not a good major to be in?

Sorry, I know that was a lot 😅😅 hope y’all have a good day!

Not to worry, pet! We have a couple of articles on the best way to choose a college major and career:

High School Students Have No Way of Knowing What Career to Choose. Why Do We Make Them Do It Anyway? 

The Actually Helpful, Nuanced, Non-Bullshit Way to Choose a Future Career 

Your College Major May Not Prepare You for Your Job—but It Can Prepare You for Life

The tl;dr of it all is that Glassdoor.com is a great resource for comparing salaries, getting employee reviews of companies, and figuring out what it's really like in a given profession.

We also recommend requesting informational interviews from alumni who work in the field you're targeting. Good luck, sweet pea!

How to understand what you read.

In a world that is getting more and more anti-intellectual, being able to understand information is going to be a huge leg up. You could do so much with an english degree that they dont tell you. So many places are just concerned that you have a degree.

Totally agree with the English major above, and adding:

You can always take classes outside your major. Maybe you do a literature degree but take a coding class. Maybe you do the art & tech major you mentioned but also do a few literature classes. You don't even have to officially minor. No one can stop you from taking classes for fun.

I can tell a story, not just with data but with words. I can write a convincing and persuasive PRD. I can draw connections between disparate parts of my job and my company and tell others about them with metaphors that make them go "aha!".

This isn't a thing I see from the folks who didn't have a good background in literature.

"Liberal arts" degrees are very good at teaching you how to connect, how to think, how to tell a story from a jumbled mass of facts. They're good at teaching you to question sources and biases and seek out context. They're good at teaching you to break down complicated things into understandable language.

I'll also seconding (third?) what twoleggedmermaid said. I have a Comm degree with a concentration in PR. I haven't had a single communications or PR job, but the skills I learned have been extremely useful in every job I've had since.

One more thing you may find helpful is that many schools have a major called something like Interdisciplinary, Multidisciplinary, or Independent Studies. It's more work on the front end, but you essentially get to make your own major. Before I transferred and switched to Comms, I was developing a multidisciplinary track for Science Journalism, concentrating on environmental issues and human Ecology. I was combining courses from the human eco, journalism, and English, plus intro level stuff in most science fields. I was even able to design it in a way that would've let me get a Creative Writing minor, which is where my non-science passions lie.