Day 21

If you returned (or went, if you've never been) to college to study anything you want, what would you major in, and why?


 I'm very lucky- I absolutely loved what I studied.  I would chose to study Spanish all over again.  (However, I probably would minor in business this time, not secondary education.)  I started college as a history major, something I thought I loved, but quickly changed after my first semester and realized it was my Spanish classes that I tried the hardest in, and looked forward to the most.  I didn't do excellent in them- they were hard (you try studying for 4 years in a language that's not your first!), but for the first time I actually enjoyed worked long, tiring hours on papers and grammar (yes, grammar).  Going to Spain for a semester was the best semester of my life, hands down. The unfortunate part was that we had a very high turn over rate with our professors, so it was hard to have sort of consistency within the department.  We did however, have Professora Iglesia, a Cuban born in the Bronx, who I took 4-5 classes with during my time there.  To call her a firecracker was an understatement.  She taught us girls everything from how to dress before we went to Spain, to how to seduce a man with a fan, to how to hum the national anthem, and some nursery rhymes.  And goddamn if I haven't used everything she's ever taught me at some point in my life since then at the most random times.  A year after I graduated, she was diagnosed with the end stages of terminal cancer and died about a month later- which deeply shocked and saddened everyone she'd ever taught, including me.  That's why, even though I've left my career as a Spanish teacher that she worked so hard to prepare me for, I still grasp very hard to the language and try to maintain as much of it as I am able to.  
  I might have put a little more effort into my speaking so I could be a more fluent speaker, or I'd have learned the subjunctive a little better- but I would undoubtedly major in Spanish again.  As everyone slaved over their work and complained- I slaved over my work and was more than happy to.