Shire Time Session 4…Picking a major
I am in quite a pickle. What do I want to do with my life? What should I major in to make enough money to be happy and still have fun working? My main problem isn’t that I can’t find a job or profession that will make me happy; my problem is that pretty much everything would make me happy. I have a tough time making choices because I would be happy doing anything. When people ask me where I want to go to dinner, I literally just can’t decide because the possibilities are endless and I would to eat anywhere. Some people are picky and know exactly what they have to do to be happy and I am simply not one of those people.
Possibilities I have considered up until now include Architect, Biomedical Engineer, Environmental Engineer, and now I am leaning towards something in the environmental field. After I got over wanting to be a plane, not a pilot, an actual plane, I realized I needed to have a real job in life. Then I thought about architecture. I always loved drawing house plans and thinking about how my house could be better; however, then I thought where the future in this profession is? Millions of house plans have been developed and there is really no way to be consistently innovative and I didn’t like that. After this I thought about Biomedical Engineering because it is a relatively new major at Chapel Hill and seems really innovative and fun to do every day for my life; however, I don’t want to be in a lab all day with like 2 other people. I enjoy being outdoors way more than indoors. So this faded into environmental engineering, which would be fun but Carolina doesn’t have this major so when I came here I kicked that out. Finally that faded into something in the environmental field in general. It would be really interesting to do something with green technology or sustainability, either practices or laws.
This is where I stand right now but I could see myself doing anything. I wouldn’t mind being a lawyer, doctor, businessman, or I have even considered being a pilot quite a few times because I love traveling. Whatever I do I better be able to travel a lot.
So job requirements:
• Mix with people frequently
• Outside frequently
• Decent money because I want to be able to travel and be comfortable
• No more than like 8 years of school; I couldn’t handle 12 years of extra schooling like some people do.
• Fun
If like 4 of these 5 are met I will be super happy but I am so lost when it comes to picking a major. Anyone have advise?
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Shire Time Session 3...
Shire Time Session 3…
China
For my sophomore and junior year in high school I had this teacher, Fro, who graduated from college then taught in China for a year. She then came back to America to teach in NC and pay her teaching fellows scholarship. She only taught English in America for 2 years and I had her both years she taught. She always hated teaching Americans because most of my didn’t do anything and didn’t give a shit about school and the Chinese students were always pumped to work. So she moved back to China my senior year and told me and my girlfriend we could come whenever. Yeah right, our parents would let the two of us go to China together, no way…way.
Okay so the Christmas break of my senior year in high school, me and my girlfriend ended up going to Shanghai, China. Don’t ask me how our parents let us because I don’t know. We were staying with our old teacher (which is odd by itself) and it was an awesome opportunity; and there is no way I explain this to prove that it wasn’t weird staying with my old teacher for 9 days. The concept is really strange and weird but in actuality it wasn’t at all! I promise.
Wellll it was the best 9 days of my entire life, hands down. After a super sweet 15 hour plane ride, we had a 3 hour layover in Japan and just hanging out in the Tokyo Narita Airport for 3 hours was insanely cool. Then we had a short flight into Shanghai. We got off the plane and walked to meet Fro at the baggage claim. It was right then I knew we were completely on the other side of the world; walking around the corner it was hundreds of Asian people and one white woman. The whole time I was there I only saw maybe 10 other non-Asian people, and only spoke to 3 Chinese people who knew English well enough to converse.
One of the crowning moments of the trip and my life was sitting in a restaurant on the top floor of the Jin Mao Tower, the really tall building on the right, drinking a scotch on the rocks. It was sooo insane. That along with about 100 other remarkable experiences made up my trip. Even small miniscule daily activities were exciting there, like riding the metro, walking around, and ordering food when no one speaks English. I could seriously have an entire blog dedicated to this trip. It’s really frustrating not being able to say everything that was so memorable but since there is only one negative thing I’ll say that—fish. NEVER have fish in China! Period. It was soo bad; all the other food was delectable but the fish was horrible. We were in a nice restaurant too, it was a splurge night; but the fish was completely boned and everything. They didn’t do anything to it; it was just an entire fish on a plate with some red slimy sauce.
All in all, even the negative was a memorable experience and I seriously advise every single one of you to go to Shanghai or somewhere in China at least once in your life.
China
For my sophomore and junior year in high school I had this teacher, Fro, who graduated from college then taught in China for a year. She then came back to America to teach in NC and pay her teaching fellows scholarship. She only taught English in America for 2 years and I had her both years she taught. She always hated teaching Americans because most of my didn’t do anything and didn’t give a shit about school and the Chinese students were always pumped to work. So she moved back to China my senior year and told me and my girlfriend we could come whenever. Yeah right, our parents would let the two of us go to China together, no way…way.
Okay so the Christmas break of my senior year in high school, me and my girlfriend ended up going to Shanghai, China. Don’t ask me how our parents let us because I don’t know. We were staying with our old teacher (which is odd by itself) and it was an awesome opportunity; and there is no way I explain this to prove that it wasn’t weird staying with my old teacher for 9 days. The concept is really strange and weird but in actuality it wasn’t at all! I promise.
Wellll it was the best 9 days of my entire life, hands down. After a super sweet 15 hour plane ride, we had a 3 hour layover in Japan and just hanging out in the Tokyo Narita Airport for 3 hours was insanely cool. Then we had a short flight into Shanghai. We got off the plane and walked to meet Fro at the baggage claim. It was right then I knew we were completely on the other side of the world; walking around the corner it was hundreds of Asian people and one white woman. The whole time I was there I only saw maybe 10 other non-Asian people, and only spoke to 3 Chinese people who knew English well enough to converse.
One of the crowning moments of the trip and my life was sitting in a restaurant on the top floor of the Jin Mao Tower, the really tall building on the right, drinking a scotch on the rocks. It was sooo insane. That along with about 100 other remarkable experiences made up my trip. Even small miniscule daily activities were exciting there, like riding the metro, walking around, and ordering food when no one speaks English. I could seriously have an entire blog dedicated to this trip. It’s really frustrating not being able to say everything that was so memorable but since there is only one negative thing I’ll say that—fish. NEVER have fish in China! Period. It was soo bad; all the other food was delectable but the fish was horrible. We were in a nice restaurant too, it was a splurge night; but the fish was completely boned and everything. They didn’t do anything to it; it was just an entire fish on a plate with some red slimy sauce.
All in all, even the negative was a memorable experience and I seriously advise every single one of you to go to Shanghai or somewhere in China at least once in your life.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Shire Time Session 2
Shire Time Session 2…
The second installment of the Shire Time Sessions is here.
What goes great some New Zealand backpacking and pipe smoking with Gandalf? ...Music of course.
Music is a major part of my life and it goes great with everything…homework, walking around, chores, running, driving around, napping, and sports. Especially baseball…
Side note: that’s a Good Neighbor Stuff video and they are all awesome and everyone should watch them.
The controversy over the ability to download music online is one which many people debate over; personally, I think it is more important to the music industry than most people know. The majority of music that is downloaded on the internet today is from new artists or the current popular artists. What do they have to lose? The ability to people to get their music for free online just increases their popularity and spreads their name. Most of the new music I find is online, not on iTunes or in a record store. I’m not going to pay for a song when I have even heard the whole track. Websites like www.hypem.com are an accumulation of a ton of online music blogs. It is kind of like an RSS Reader website and just posts every song that music blogs blog about. This allows for new artists to get their entire song out there and create a fan base.
Most of the money artists and bands make is from shows. Whenever you go to a concert it is usually $20 or more and the venue can hold at least a couple hundred and as much as 60,000 or higher. So even in the smallest show you would go to, the band would bring in about $4,000-$8,000 and keep most of it. New artists understand this and don’t really complain too much about the online music debate. The ones who complain are the popular artists who already have millions of dollars so who cares, they are just whining, and the older artists who don’t really perform anymore.
When it comes to the older artists, I still don’t believe they have anything to worry about. Most people want to buy their music because they want all of it, not just a couple of songs you can get for free. When the Beatles finally let their music be sold on iTunes, people went crazy and it was at the top of just about every chart. Other less popular old artists you can’t even find online, so they have nothing to worry about.
I like what The Glitch Mod did with their songs. They released one song for free online and went on tour and made tons of money and gained a huge fan base, just proving that the music sales aren’t where the big money is. Also other artists like Pretty Lights, Ratatat, and many other upcoming artists just give their albums out for free online. I really enjoy how the music industry is now starting to conform to the situation and has generally stopped complaining.
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