Major Exploration – LIL-120
Framing:
The Major Exploration assignment that we did for LIL 120 was a “scavenger hunt” like assignment where we went through resources to grab important information about our respective majors. For me, that was English, and I learned a lot about what my major had and didn’t have to offer. From jobs to the different concentrations offered, even all the way to the research options I am allowed to go into. Going through all of it, I remember being surprised by the amount of jobs that an English major could actually go into, even ones that I hadn’t ever thought of going into. All the concentrations made me think about what I wanted to do specifically with my English major, though I am still cemented into the writing concentration. The freedom of the research (and the fact I can do any at all) has been very interesting to me since I first learned of it. This assignment was pretty important because it helped base me into my major, helped ground me. I got to see my opportunities, and I got to see what I can make myself into with this major. I believe this shows how I as a person and a student in the English Major sees his own major, not as just a degree to hang on a wall but as a tangible object, one with a real meaning to me.
