College Apps - they make me want to cry

[chopiabin]

Is anyone else here applying to college now? Actually that's rather stupid of me, of course there are. Anyways, I have been on this board all night because I am trying to avoid writing college essays at all costs. Vent your complaints and/or recount your inspirational tales of hope (so that I don't go insane )

Hating Life , Chopichopchop

[allchopin]

Haha, I haven't started crying yet- not to that stage in application .  Get this though, not only do I not know where I want to go, I don't know what I want to DO.  Pretty sad state- it'll all be over by February...

[chopiabin]

Well, are you looking into music? There are tons of colleges with great music programs. I'm probably going to double major in English literature and piano performance. At what region of the country are you looking? By the way, this will sound wierd, but I always thought you were some guy in his late twenties or early thirties. I honestly don't know what gave me that impression .

Chop

[allchopin]

I always thought you were some guy in his late twenties or early thirties

Yeh, I get that a lot *stretches*.  

I would love to do music but only one thing is standing in my way of finalizing the decision- money.  After college, what can you honestly do with a Bachelor's major in music (besides teach).  Music would lead me down the path of poverty, so I'm thinking about aeronautical engineering or something.  I'm in southern US, so there are not quite as many top notch school choices down here as I would like.  Private schools cost too much, so I'm pretty much down to deciding among the public schools.  But first, of course, is that nagging question of what do I even want to do?

[chopiabin]

Yeah, I'm also in the south (Memphis), and I agree with the money thing. I feel that I would rather be happy and maybe not have so much money than have a miserable life in which I make a ton. I also figure that I can double major, so who knows?

Chop

[allchopin]

I dunno, because money is a big factor (after all, that IS what college is basically for).  I think that I would rather start at the higher-paying subjects and work my way down as I discard possibilities.  
Double majoring is pretty hard, especially if the two majors are so different- you can't really share classes to get credit for both majors.  Have you researched this?

[Clare]

I'm a qualified architect but I'm going to do a bachelor of music next year and quit architecture forever! Call me financially crazy, but I figured out that music teachers actually earn more than architects per hour.
I suppose that doing music might be a bit less scary for me because I do have another career to fall back on, but I only did architecture to please my parents and found out that all I really wanted to do was music.
So you could always do what I did and train for a career in something else first, just in case, quietly improving on your piano skillz all those years. But looking back, I wish I'd just done music in the first place.
I hate architecture!

[chopiabin]

That's awesome. I think that more people should do what makes them happy, regardless of the money factor. If you can do what makes you happy AND get money, then do it. I just don't want to have one of those jobs that makes me hate every day just so that I can earn money.

Chop

P.S. allchop, please don't think I'm judging you. This is just my personal philosophy.

[Noah]

That's awesome. I think that more people should do what makes them happy, regardless of the money factor.

That's easier said than done.