Tuesday, June 14, 2011

College?

I hope to study psychology when I go to college because it is a subject I am very interested in. I am in IB psychology currently and love it. Although psychology is of very big interest to me, I am also largely interested in music. I play the piano, guitar, violin, drums, bass, ukulele, and a little bit of a lot of other instruments. I always grew up around music and have grown to love it more than anything. Although I love music, I don't quite believe it is the best choice to take as a route in my life. The Pre-Collegiate program is helping me achieve my main goal of solidifying what I want to do. This summer, with the health program, I am able to see the basis of what a health career education may be like. In the fall, I will hopefully be taking a music course so that I can see what the basis of that education may be. Through both these opportunities, I will be able to see whether I find a health education or a music education more interesting. I am slightly hesitant to go into music because several music majors I have talked to have told me that they have lost a lot of the love they previously had for music. Although I do not believe this could possibly happen to me because music means something completely more than just something I love, I am still reluctant to take that chance. Overall, this program will help me to establish my future.

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  1. Hi and thanks for sharing. I would advise you to pursue a career in the thing that gives you the most joy. That being said - if you are good at what you do - there are music therapist that use sound and music to help people cope, relax and overcome many psychological issues. You may want to explore to see if that might be a field that you could break into. You've got a tough choice ahead but you're doing the right kind of exploration to see which one might work best for you. You might want to do a search in PubMed on "music therapy" and see what kind of research people are publishing about and where the schools are that support those kind of programs.
    Good luck with the program and your exploration.
    John D Jones Jr
    Head, Reference & Research
    Health Sciences Library

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