Around my junior year, I had transferred from computer science over to a business degree and started helping out over there. My stint in computer science was fun, but short lived. A big problem was that my abstract thinking was poor, but that just needed training. However, I was needing to get into a major fast and running out of scholarship money. I had been talking to a lot of advisors and they were trying to help me in saying "Just because you have an interest in it, doesn't mean you have to make it your job. It can become a hobby." Made sense.

So while I was trying to pursue a business degree, I still had computer skills that could get me some temporary jobs.
I applied to two workstudy jobs: web editing position in our college of business (piecing together audio samples from college public news broadcasts, site overhaul & update, database logs) and sociology department (webmaster, programming, systems administration). I ended up taking two workstudy jobs because I liked both positions. The only problem was it ate up my work-study funds even faster. I had pitched this idea to both supervisors and they agreed. It gave me a ton of experience, but the thing was once my funds ran out, I was out. I worked hard on both jobs and felt great. It also was good because it helped me focus on my classes better. Things started going well, met my future roommates and took some exercise classes together. It got me into taking self improvement classes and interests so I started took Journalism classes and also a incidently also a class for psycholinguistics.

I did well in these classes, but here's the neat thing. The psycholinguistics class ended up having a TA who gave me a hot tip for free pizza and free information about linguistics. I went for the pizza and found out we had a linguistics major, which is the study of languages. I was really needing something to help me graduate and the classes would fit into my schedule. Who knew that I'd go in for free food and come out with a full belly and finally a major! I got an A at the end of the quarter too.

The journalism classes was among several self improvement classes I started taking. I had realized one of the things I was lacking was the ability to convey my thoughts through speech. I was excellent if you gave me a pen and paper, but when I had to sit with them face to face or talk over the phone, that was a different matter. So I took this to help with my public speaking. I took two other course offerings that I felt were significant. One dealt with martial arts courses I took with my roommates which helped reduce class load and stress, and was fun. The other, turned out to be my first class ... in the world of acting.