Blog 51

Technically, I am still a Biology major. I picked biology because I excelled at science in high school, but when I started taking classes at OSU I decided that it wasn’t for me. I could definitely get a Biology degree. The classes are challenging but I’m confident that I could do so, I just found myself longing to do something with more feeling and missing the arts.

Therefore, I’m unofficially a History major (I have yet to go through the process of getting it switched over). History is something that has always captivated me, and something that I found always came easily. Most importantly, history is a study of everything. I can bury myself in any subject that I want and see how  it relates to people and places and how everything got to be how it is today.

I’m fascinated in the explanation of how cultures and places developed. It gives me a sense of pride to understand how something acquired its identity.

Contrary to how many people perceive it, pursuing a degree in history is full of unique challenges. I won’t be spending hours in the lab and doing calculus, but I will need the patience and humility to learn how to gain insight, and how communication alters facts by perception. At OSU, history is in the college of Arts and Sciences and is regarded as an art. I’ll have to use skills that no other field does and craft them into the observations that compose modern history.