how it all started

When I first came to App I had no idea what I wanted to study. My first two years were full of taking all the required classes to graduate. Surely while taking those I would find something that sparked my interest... nope. I remember sitting down one day and thinking about what I was going to do about a major and minor. My dad really wanted me to do business, but I hated that idea with a passion! I remembered how I got placed in a Literature and Film class my junior year of high school and remembered how fun it was. I wondered if App had anything like that to offer, so I checked around and sure enough there was an English major with a film concentration. I'm not the biggest fan of the subject English, but I thought I'd give it a try. I don't think I lasted more than a day. The second semester of my sophomore year I remember signing up for a few English classes along with my other ones. I hated them, there was no way I was going to make this my major! I continued to look around to see if there was another way to have a film concentration. I looked through the Communications department, Theater department and even the Curriculum and Instruction department but none had what I was looking for. Finally someone told me about the IDS department and how I could have an Individually Designed major and take from all of those departments. I really enjoy being able to take classes from three different departments and apply them myself to what I want to do!

Now I'm just nervous about how this last semester is going to play out and what I'm going to do after I graduate!