Semester Five
Now that my fifth semester is underway, I feel qualified to tell y’all about my schedule for the semester and how declaring my major has practically changed my life. (cheesy but true.) This semester I’m taking classes in a few different subject areas to fulfill different course requirements for my majors, Medicine, Health, and Society and Cognitive Studies: MHS 290 Health Social Movements, SPED 2030 Introduction to Language and Communication, PSY 1750 Social and Personality Development, PSY 252 Human Sexuality, and MHS 245 Medicine, Science, and Technology.
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What I’m enjoying most about my classes this semester (and last semester too) is that since they all apply to my majors, the material I learn in one class helps me in some of my other classes, and they’re all sort of connected. For instance, last semester I took MHS 201, which is the intro class for the MHS major. In both of my MHS classes this semester, concepts and theories that I learned last year help me to do better and understand material more readily.
Before I declared my major, I bounced around to all sorts of intro classes–from Econ to Philosophy to Poli Sci to Chem…basically, I was flailing. When I finally decided on my majors, that first semester of taking classes that actually went together was like a breath of fresh air–classes that actually went together? What a concept! There is not a single one of my classes that I dread going to, and homework every night feels less like a chore when it’s about things in which I’m actually interested. My classes are going really well so far, and I’m hoping that they only get better from here!