What is your Major? or your intended major

[shinwari]

I might major in Mathematics

[Dukemina]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

3rd year in Childhood Education and English - FTW! :D


Next.

[zarghoona]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

I want to become a medical doctor now

[afghanking]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

Id like to major in Criminal justice.

[Laila]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

I want to become a medical doctor now

ha ha same here!!!


I am actually doing my premedicine at a college near home. I will be completing my major, Biological Science, at University of California, Irvine.......yay go Irvine!!! I am planning on going to medical school to become a cardiac surgeon.

[Roshina]

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LOL! hahahhahahaha!!! omg... k, I REALLY wanna answer this.

Let's see ...
I started off as a biology major, totally planning to become a doctor (childhood dream.! No, wait, dream since birth! Consider it Desi influence ). Studied bio for like 2.5 years, studied other things on the way, decided I wanted other things instead, fell in love with English, so changed to English. Did English for a semester or so, discovered I wasn't satisfied with it (the kinds of classes offered at my school didn't satisfy my urge), so changed to philosophy. My goal at this point was to become a lawyer :D

But then I noticed that the school had only a few exciting classes in philosophy, and I wasn't satisfied. :?

SO!! I decided to go for Women's Studies ... but the university didn't have a Women's Studies major and I could only minor in it. So I chose Journalism as my other major.

In the meantime, I changed universities :D There, I decided I was gonna settle for Journalism and Women's Studies ('cause here, too, no Women's Studies major), and, c'mon now, I HAD to save the worllllld, yeah?

In the meantime, also, I re-considered my dream of medicine and made sure to finish my pre-med courses and take extra sciences -- just in case. 'Cause all this time, my parents were very disappointed that I wasn't intelligent enough to become a doctor. (Yara kho! :oops: These Easterners!) Once these sciences were done, I decided I was crazy for having re-considered, so I ran back to my selected major(s) -- Women's Studies and Journalism.

THENNNN ... I had long talks with different professors and advisers in Journalism and discovered that I don't *have* to major in Journalism or study Journalism in order to become a journalism or to go into the media.

So I had the same dilemma again: couldn't settle on a major! Decided I wanted MORE :shock:
In the meantime, I ran to these Pashtun friends, telling them I don't know what to major in and I'm supposed to be graduating soon! :| And, so, some suggested anthropology, some economics, some journalism, and so on ... they were like all of these will be of help to Pukhtuns in the long run.

But, nope, they didn't meet Qrratugai's desires :S So I took all these random classes to see which ones fit my interests and personality.

So, I took classes on the Quran, Hadith, Middle East, South Asia, etc. There, I met these brilliant Islamic Studies professors and was like, "OMG OMG OMG! Where have I BEEN! This is EXACTLY what I want!"

And so ...

My major now? Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies + Islamic Studies! :D And, omg, the BEST thing is that it deals with Afghanistan and Pukhtuns, toooooooo. And so I get to write all these fascinating papers and read all these lovely books in my "spare" time and talk for hours and hours about what I read and write, and the feeling is ammmmazing, guys!

So I SO got what I wanted in the end, a major in which at least four of my passions are combined: Pukhtun, Women, Islam, and history. :mrgreen:

It's the BBBBEST thing I could do for myself. I am planning to go for a PhD in Islamic Studies right after I graduate :D We need more women in Islamic Studies anyway, so it all works out for the world too, not just me

Oh, and this doesn't mean I've stopped taking classes in the other fields. I'm still in women's studies/gender-related courses, English/writing, philosophy, and journalism, but my official major is the Islamic Studies one :D

(P.S. Yes, all of this took place under 4 years, lol, but I'll be graduating in Spring 2011, ka khairee... well, that's the plan.)

k ... what else did y'all expect from Qrratugai in response to the simple question of "What is your major?" lol

P.P.S. My parents are still not pleased, and my poor mother thinks that I must be being taught by Salman Rushdie :P And I've to remind her almost every other week that Salman Rushdie is NOT a scholar on Islam, and only renown scholars of Islam who have a PhD in Islamic Studies and Arabic are allowed to teach in our department. Still, according to her, Muslims shouldn't pursue Islamic Studies in the west.

[Dukemina]

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Wow Que. You art something. I wonder how it feels like discovering what you want to be. For me, becoming a teacher was my dream since my first day in Kindergarten.

[Roshina]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

Wow Que. You art something. I wonder how it feels like discovering what you want to be. For me, becoming a teacher was my dream since my first day in Kindergarten.

Yeah, that's why it's good to know exactly what you want to do before you enter college. If I was 110% sure about medicine and was as excited about medicine as I am about Islamic Studies, I wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble, lol. It's just that, I never thought I would be able to do anything other than medicine, you know? There was that family pressure, too, and that desire to help better the miserable situation back home with regards to healthcare.

But then again, people tell us college is, for some people, all about discovering themselves. And I think I was one of those lost souls that happened to, lol. :D

Oh, and how does it feel, you ask? Oh my ... every morning, it's something new to look forward to!! And the feeling never dies out because there really is ALWAYS something new to discover (I mean, it's the study of two major world regions and one major world religion we're talking about! None of which have officially been fully "discovered" yet, you know?) So, yeah!

They tell us to do something that really makes us happy. But I say don't just do what makes you happy but try to find something that makes you happy AND is for the betterment of a people you love as well. For me, that's where ultimate happiness and satisfaction lie.

[*Mahzala*]

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Completing majors in Journalism, minors in Health Science.

Alhamdulillah, loving it.

[shah nawaz]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

LOL! hahahhahahaha!!! omg... k, I REALLY wanna answer this.

Let's see ...
I started off as a biology major, totally planning to become a doctor (childhood dream.! No, wait, dream since birth! Consider it Desi influence ). Studied bio for like 2.5 years, studied other things on the way, decided I wanted other things instead, fell in love with English, so changed to English. Did English for a semester or so, discovered I wasn't satisfied with it (the kinds of classes offered at my school didn't satisfy my urge), so changed to philosophy. My goal at this point was to become a lawyer :D

But then I noticed that the school had only a few exciting classes in philosophy, and I wasn't satisfied. :?

SO!! I decided to go for Women's Studies ... but the university didn't have a Women's Studies major and I could only minor in it. So I chose Journalism as my other major.

In the meantime, I changed universities :D There, I decided I was gonna settle for Journalism and Women's Studies ('cause here, too, no Women's Studies major), and, c'mon now, I HAD to save the worllllld, yeah?

In the meantime, also, I re-considered my dream of medicine and made sure to finish my pre-med courses and take extra sciences -- just in case. 'Cause all this time, my parents were very disappointed that I wasn't intelligent enough to become a doctor. (Yara kho! :oops: These Easterners!) Once these sciences were done, I decided I was crazy for having re-considered, so I ran back to my selected major(s) -- Women's Studies and Journalism.

THENNNN ... I had long talks with different professors and advisers in Journalism and discovered that I don't *have* to major in Journalism or study Journalism in order to become a journalism or to go into the media.

So I had the same dilemma again: couldn't settle on a major! Decided I wanted MORE :shock:
In the meantime, I ran to these Pashtun friends, telling them I don't know what to major in and I'm supposed to be graduating soon! :| And, so, some suggested anthropology, some economics, some journalism, and so on ... they were like all of these will be of help to Pukhtuns in the long run.

But, nope, they didn't meet Qrratugai's desires :S So I took all these random classes to see which ones fit my interests and personality.

So, I took classes on the Quran, Hadith, Middle East, South Asia, etc. There, I met these brilliant Islamic Studies professors and was like, "OMG OMG OMG! Where have I BEEN! This is EXACTLY what I want!"

And so ...

My major now? Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies + Islamic Studies! :D And, omg, the BEST thing is that it deals with Afghanistan and Pukhtuns, toooooooo. And so I get to write all these fascinating papers and read all these lovely books in my "spare" time and talk for hours and hours about what I read and write, and the feeling is ammmmazing, guys!

So I SO got what I wanted in the end, a major in which at least four of my passions are combined: Pukhtun, Women, Islam, and history. :mrgreen:

It's the BBBBEST thing I could do for myself. I am planning to go for a PhD in Islamic Studies right after I graduate :D We need more women in Islamic Studies anyway, so it all works out for the world too, not just me

Oh, and this doesn't mean I've stopped taking classes in the other fields. I'm still in women's studies/gender-related courses, English/writing, philosophy, and journalism, but my official major is the Islamic Studies one :D

(P.S. Yes, all of this took place under 4 years, lol, but I'll be graduating in Spring 2011, ka khairee... well, that's the plan.)

k ... what else did y'all expect from Qrratugai in response to the simple question of "What is your major?" lol

P.P.S. My parents are still not pleased, and my poor mother thinks that I must be being taught by Salman Rushdie :P And I've to remind her almost every other week that Salman Rushdie is NOT a scholar on Islam, and only renown scholars of Islam who have a PhD in Islamic Studies and Arabic are allowed to teach in our department. Still, according to her, Muslims shouldn't pursue Islamic Studies in the west.

so are you olanning to get a PHD as well?

[Roshina]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

It's the BBBBEST thing I could do for myself. I am planning to go for a PhD in Islamic Studies right after I graduate :D We need more women in Islamic Studies anyway

so are you planning to get a PHD as well?

Yep.

[Shamaar]

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My parents wanted me to be a doctor ever since my tre became one.

I started out University in Biochemistry,
then I switched to Chemistry because I hated Biochemistry,
then I switched to Biomedical Science (again for my parents),
then I switched back to Chemistry because I REALLY hated biology,
then I switched to Chemical Physics because I wouldn't have to take Organic Chemistry.

I graduated with Honors Chemical Physics this past October, Alhamdulillah. I'm working for now, but I'll be applying to Law School this November, Inshallah.

[Shamaar]

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Wow, I am proud of you.

Thank you bro.

[Shamaar]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

Good job Shamaar, I know how difficult Physics Major is, We need some bright heads like you in our Pashtun community.

Thanks to you too bro.

[Laila]

Re: What is your Major? or your intended major

My parents wanted me to be a doctor ever since my tre became one.

I started out University in Biochemistry,
then I switched to Chemistry because I hated Biochemistry,
then I switched to Biomedical Science (again for my parents),
then I switched back to Chemistry because I REALLY hated biology,
then I switched to Chemical Physics because I wouldn't have to take Organic Chemistry.

I graduated with Honors Chemical Physics this past October, Alhamdulillah. I'm working for now, but I'll be applying to Law School this November, Inshallah.

Good luck wror in everything you do.....remember, UCLA!