Any college student or up-and-coming college student knows that you have to decide on a major when you are admitted or have an idea of what you want to do with your life. Most of the time, if you can't think of one, you enter as undecided and sail through your first freshman semester trying different options, but by the time the second semester rolls around you usually have an idea. If you still have no clue what you are going to do with your life, then you talk to people. I have heard a lot of advice about choosing the major that is right for you, and honestly, it is all about what you are most passionate about.
When I decided on my life path, I had tried three majors prior to my final decision. My sophomore fall semester, I decided I wanted to be involved in film productions and the study of classic movies. Many people assumed I wanted to act or perform in films, which wasn't the case, but it is a common misconception. Anywho, as a bachelor of the arts degree student, we are required to have a minor or additional major to graduate. One thing you may or may not know is that choosing to have a minor is actually more restrictive than just adding the major. I didn't know that, so that fall I worked on the theatre production and was told that when I thought of becoming a theatre studies minor.
So I looked into it and found that it was the case. Half of the classes I wanted to take weren't even offered to those in the theatre studies minor. If you were a theatre studies minor student, you could only take a few acting classes and theatre survey, which is plain ridiculous. Just to take the classes I wanted to take, I had to add the major which I did. Soon after I entered the major, I met people who were BFAs in the major and they were super great, but I was known as the film student in the theatre. Which is fine, don't get me wrong, but I felt a bit more distant from the cliques within the theatre.
It is true what they say about drama being full of drama. I joke of course, but in the reality of being a double major in cinema studies and theatre studies at UCF is shockingly different. If I had been a single major rather than a double major, I feel like I wouldn't seem so distant from people within the majors. I kid you not: I was asked out by a theatre BFA student because I was "different" and a "film student." Not because I am a nice person or whatever. I mean, it is not a hardship by any means. It was just strange to me.
Recently one of my close friends added a major, advertising and personal relations, to his theatre studies major, and he now understands the strangeness that comes with adding a major. Many people see it as you being better than them or different from them for some reason. I feel like it shouldn't matter, but it does. Cliques exist in college and in life. As Bowling for Soup sang, "High School Never Ends."
