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Thinking About Being A History Major?

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Thinking About Being A History Major?
Jonteal Hasty

In our adolescence years, the adults that oversee our lives as we grow will redundantly ask us the question that gets under our skin. "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is something we will think about until we grow up and even after we grow and realize that what we strived for, may not be what we wanted. Some us will take the paths to be doctors, or engineers, or lawyers. All of the fancy stuff that we know will make us money regardless if we're truly interested or not. Some of us will make it to college and still be undecided. Then there are some of us who choose a major that has no guarantee to make money. That small group of people that major in a dead end career path because they love doing what they do. Yet, what we forget to see in life is that nothing is dead ended, nothing is impossible until we make it so.

I chose History as my major. Why? What is there to do with a history major? Did you pick it because it's an easy major? These are common questions asked, generally because as a history major there could be multiple career options or limited. For me as a history major my career options could be anything, because I chose not to go down the education path. I am majoring in history because it is the subject that I am interested in. It was the most interesting thing to me in high school and as we live and breathe, we are in history. History is here in every aspect of our lives, and we use it all the time to determine situations, or places to go, or even where to live. History is often brought up in courts to determine a case and history is even around in medicine. Doctors dig through years to find the first developments of diseases in order to help find cures.

As a history major, I learned very quickly that it is not easy. Where there are question in classes, there are multiple answers, multiple solutions, and very long in depth thinking. A simple answer to how Abraham Lincoln died, turns into long discussions to break apart every little event that led up to that moment. There are long readings, long writings, and long videos that we must go through to master thinking like a historian. Yet while this may sound terrible, it is all worth it in the end when choosing a career. I plan to go to graduate school and master in Museum studies and Library science. So yes I'll be in school for a long time. Then I plan to go to law school to strive as an international lawyer. Later in my life, I want to open my own libraries and museums and create new programs for children to think in depth. So when thinking about a major, remember that in history, you can do anything.

Your options are only limited, if you allow them to be. Join the history life and learn all the amazing things of life. Enjoy all the opportunities this major provides at Seton Hill University and be in depth.

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