“So what do you want to do with that?”
This is the all too common response I receive every time I answer the what’s your major question. I would bet a Chick-Fil-A Ice dream cone (I know, I go all out) that teaching is all they think can be done with an English Major. I myself thought for quite some time that my future was in teaching, and it still may be, but now I feel there are a world of possibilities that can be looked into. The idea of helping to mold young English minds, and to try to instill in high school students the love of poetry (as impossible as that may sound) still appeals to me, but before I re-enter the realm of classrooms and white boards I would love to try my hand at writing. This past semester has been the first time that I have every really started to think more seriously about what careers I could choose and those that are writing based have been particularly attractive. Some other careers that I have been thinking about are publishing and editing, mainly publishing. I think it would be incredibly interesting to work in a publishing company and get to work with lots of up and coming authors
As for my own writing I have been very interested in poetry and feel that if I ever want to produce something that I actually like I would need to read much more of it. My reading lately has been geared more towards trying to find my own writing style. I still read all the same types of literature I would have before but as I am reading I keep asking myself how I could do something similar. Poets that I have greatly learned from this semester and appreciated are Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Haney and I am sure quite a few more. This was my first semester as an English major taking classes and I haven’t regretted it at all. I do have tendencies when I am faced with huge daunting papers but then I think about the possibility that I could be doing Chemistry Labs and then praise Jesus for the paper that I have the privilege of writing.
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