I have a BA in philosophy and minors in music, indigenous studies, and religious studies.
My first major was astrophysics. Then I applied to do recording arts when that didn’t work out (I couldn’t keep up in calculus), I loved recording and music. I actually got an interview and the school was fairly prestigious for music. So I felt honored. I blew the interview though. I was 19 and so awkward and anxious.
By the end I wanted to go to grad school for religious studies or anthropology and study paganism throughout the United States. I applied to the only school I wanted to go to and got rejected.
Then I took classes to be an art therapist, I loved all the art classes I had to take, and the psych. But before I was going to apply to grad school I thought long and hard and I don’t think I could handle listening to peoples problems, even in an art therapy setting. I absorb peoples emotions too much.
So now I’m considering, maybe something with art or doing music production at a less prestigious university that I live ten minutes away from.
I just am afraid to take another chance at rejection. Or making the wrong move.
We have a very skewed perspective on what it means that there are variant levels of education in this nation and I think that it sounds great that you would maybe go to a less competitive school given your historical experience with it.
Studying art makes sense in my opinion given how talented you are. Getting an MFA would be great. You could teach art!
need to maintain that teacherly demeanor
lol poker face