“I love my major.” This is a sentence I never thought I’d be able to mean whole-heartedly. For the first two years of my college career, if I told you I loved my major, I’d have been giving you a half-truth.<\/p>\n
I’ve always loved Professional Writing and Information Design (PWID), ever since I heard the name and talked to the professors about it. And as of fall of 2016, I can call it my major. But my journey here was not an easy one.<\/p>\n
I came to Cedarville University as many college freshmen do: over-ambitious with outrageous misconceptions of what college will be like. My over-achieving 18-year-old self thought I wanted to double-major\u2014in English and Marketing.<\/p>\n
I liked English and wanted to study something I liked, but I thought a career in Marketing sounded more attainable, as far as getting a job post-graduation. I met with my Marketing advisor and talked about doubling Marketing with English. He suggested I think about PWID instead, and he actually called Professor Harner, the senior professor and founder of the PWID program, and scheduled a meeting for me before I could even process his suggestion.<\/p>\n
When I met with Professor Harner, she and Professor Carrington (the other PWID professor) convinced me that everything I’ve ever wanted is actually offered in PWID. So I decided to add PWID as\u00a0my second major.<\/p>\n
So why do I say it was so long until PWID was my major? Well, I was under the impression that if I double-majored with Marketing as my primary major, it would take me only one extra semester to graduate. Naive freshman as I was, I embarked on a journey that landed me in business classes I didn’t care for and four semesters enrolled in 18 credits.<\/p>\n
When it came time to schedule classes for my junior year, I realized that two essential classes for Marketing were offered only at conflicting times, and I would not be able to graduate when I had planned. What was supposed to be one extra semester turned into at least<\/em> an extra year.<\/p>\n Cue a crisis.<\/p>\n Over the past two years, I had fallen in love with PWID. I loved the classes and size of the major. I made some of my closest friends and gained two incredible professional role models. I loved what I was learning, and I was already applying my new skills.<\/p>\n However, I knew I wanted to go into Marketing someday, and a lot of counsel told me that a Marketing degree might be better professionally. I thought I was going to have to drop the major I loved.<\/p>\n PWID has wonderful events throughout the year, one of which is our Awards Banquet in the Spring. I went to the Banquet, fully expecting it to be my last PWID event. Being in the community I loved and celebrating the things I loved for what I thought was the last time broke my heart. I went back to my dorm and cried.<\/p>\n In that moment, I knew I couldn\u2019t leave PWID.<\/p>\n I still want to go into Marketing someday, but I know that with my PWID degree, I can. I will have the necessary skills, and, according to a very trusted source, the skills you have are what get you jobs.<\/p>\n I\u2019m glad I can finally (and honestly) say with all my heart that I love my major.<\/p>\n \u2014 Alyssa Speicher\u00a0(Junior)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I love my major.” This is a sentence I never thought I’d be able to mean whole-heartedly. For the first two years of my college career, if I told you I loved my major, I’d have been giving you a half-truth. I’ve always loved Professional Writing and Information Design (PWID), ever since I heard the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/thewritemajor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}