The reason I chose to take this World War I course is because I am a history major, and the course fits perfectly into my major, my interests, and my schedule. My journey to becoming a history major has been down a long and pretty complicated path. Although I graduated from high school only a year and a half ago and should not have had much time to change my major multiple times, I was a concurrent college student for two years during high school. That extra time in college gave me extra time to consider and reconsider my major. I have claimed various majors along the way: computer science, business, accounting, and even energy management, but none of those majors made me happy because I could not actually picture myself in any of those jobs. Most of my choices were money-driven choices – I was choosing majors that seemed to make the people around me proud. They were “smart” choices. Midway through last semester, I decided I had to make myself happy because I was going to suffer through jobs I thought were boring for me. At that point, I started seriously considering other dramatically different options. As I did that, I completely disregarded the aspect of money and traditional “job success” and focused on my own happiness. After a few months of contemplation, I looked back on my fourteen years of schooling and discovered that all my favorite classes had been history courses, and all my favorite teachers were history teachers. At that point, I quickly decided that history was the best choice for my real happiness, and that is ultimately why I am in this World War I course. This course is part of my road to my own unconventional happiness.
