Talk:The Sophomore, Book 2 Choices/@comment-35193625-20180803062604/@comment-3452092-20180816151840

I wish. The MC comes to school and maybe shes a major geek or a major jock, but no matter what she gets pigeon holed into an English major. I'm sure Hartfeld has whatever majors Pixelberry wants, but I can tell you right now, an English major is not the same as a Creative Writing Major and creative writing is not the same as journalism. Techncially both a Creative Writing Major and a Journalism Major fall under English. It would be an English Major with a focus in one or the other or something like that.

I have two sisters. One of them has a Bachelor in English with a focus on Creative Writing if I remember correctly (and a minor in Dance). The other one was going for that and had to switch schools, because the first school she attended claimed that had Creative Writing Majors, but didn't. The second school did (doesn't any longer), but her advisor seemed convinced that my sister was a journalism major or something, because they kept trying to get her to do things that would aid in that degree. I don't understand why she couldn't request a different advisor, but then both colleges I graduated from were small enough that we didn't have advisors. We had a set list of classes and we did those until we graduated.

Amusingly, while both of my sisters do write fiction, neither of them has any intention of focusing on writing as a career. One of them might publish something eventually, but it's not a focus. Neither of my degrees have anything to do with writing in any form and yet that is my career of choice. And honestly. . . I'm glad. I am glad for both of the degrees I do have (well, all three since technically I have two associates degrees and one bachelors degree). My brother does intend to go into the field that has degrees in and is trying to get one more before he looks for a non GA job.