The Right Field.

Yes, very soon I will write reviews on The Stranger and The Scarlet Pimpernel (swoon) and I'm currently reading Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller and A Brave New World. Remember Ceremony? I read the first four pages. I realized it was going to be exactly like Beloved. Blast. So I'm procrastinating reading it for now.

Anyhow, I realized the past couple days something which I've known for a bit now. Of course, I need to actually delve into the field, but now I know that I'm in the right field. The past couple days I've visited Harding University and have been visiting major seminar things and Honors College seminar things and drawing up my schedule. When I looked over the requirement sheet for Non-Licensure English Majors and looked over my requirements and the pick-four-classes-from-this-section section. I got excited. I will be taking Brit Lit this fall and of the four specialty classes I'll probably be taking Shakespeare! Literary Theory! British Novel! and this new class on Feminism/women in Literature from a professor who just defended her dissertation - which was a series of articles on Jane Austen. Yay! I'm so excited! And since I'm an Honors Scholar, we get to do (and actually are pretty required to do) these Honors Contract things that let us attend normal classes, but drop some of the more normal and mundane requirements in exchange for an extra paper or project that is of a different skill set or more suited to our field or something. That Shakespeare class is hereby CONTRACTED!!!! My new phrase. You like?

No, but I'm very excited. Actually, my "academic advisor" and I (she's a professor in my field - English) drew up my schedule for this fall, carefully avoiding some gen eds I might AP out of or take in an international program, and came up with a satisfactory schedule. Then she paused and said "You don't have any English. Do you want some English?" I said the equivalent of "Def Yes!" and dropped speech in favor of Brit Lit. I'm already starting my core requirements! The rest of my schedule includes intermediate Spanish, Communication/Critical Thinking, Honors New Testament, and and hour-and-a-half statistics class at 7:30 in the morning. But you know what? Since all of my other classes are on MWF, after that class and chapel on Tuesday and Thursday, I'm off scott free!!! To study, of course.