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[nirinia]

There was never a better invention than student advisors, hired to help lost students figure out what on earth they're doing. They get paid to make sense of my degree. Yes, I went to see a student advisor. And she said that I could just do a double major, in English Language and Literature. Meaning that I get Russian and literature, as well as only a halfway useless degree. If the language part turns out to be horrid, I just get rid of it altogether.

My reaction to the grammar and linguistics courses is also entirely normal: they are legendarily hellish, apparently.

And I get to write a bachelor essay/thesis, provided that the faculty makes it available by then. I am almost delirious with happiness.

Comments

[kriwik.livejournal.com]

Whatawhatwhat? Three years of English and Russian and then three years of literature, or what?

[nirinia.livejournal.com]

No, no, no. I'm doing a double major, meaning that I add 80 points of Eng. Lit to my BA. I was originally majoring in Eng. lang., with a minor in Russian lang., now I major in Eng. lang. and lit. with a major in Russian.

So I take 60 extra points, and get a degree of 240 points instead of 180. Unless I choose to get rid of the languages altogether, and just take do literature. In which case I get a slightly less useful degree (in terms of variety), but I get a very broad knowledge of my field. I'm browsing the advanced lit. courses now, and I want to take them all. I can't chose!

[nirinia.livejournal.com]

And it only takes three years, I do an extra ten points each semester.