1. Focus on this major or choose a minor?
Many people will have such hesitation, especially those students who have achieved fairly good academic results in this major. Although the two are not necessarily in conflict, for some people whose majors are already very heavy, this issue must be considered-the balance between this major and the second major.
Let me talk about my own experience first. Minor does not conflict with this major, and both majors can learn well. In view of the fact that the school mainly relies on examination evaluation, it has done well. What I mean here is that the test scores are relatively high. After studying finance, it may be the reason why I am more focused on my study. My major has basically not been affected. I don't know the ranking of my minor because there is no unified ranking, but my average GPA is between 3.5 and 4, which should be good.
Therefore, for a less busy major, busy here refers to a major that needs to spend a lot of energy studying after class. Choosing a second major will not particularly affect the performance of this major. However, you should be fully prepared psychologically, because you face many exams, which means that if you want to do well in the exam, you have to listen to the teacher in class at ordinary times, otherwise it will be difficult to grasp when several exams are intensive. This will be discussed in detail later.
For students who want to deepen their majors, there is actually no big loss if they don't take two majors. Since this article is written for students who are interested in taking the second major and those who have decided to take the second major, I feel that if you are interested in this major and want to engage in this major in the future, it is actually more useful to make some achievements in this major, such as winning a very weighty award, which is much more important than the extra points that the second major will bring you. But to be clear, it is actually very difficult to win this award, and the team is very important, so you should be excellent from the beginning and have the consciousness of seeking to join or form an excellent team.
2. Daily life after minor.
This part is based on some situations of the same underage students to write about themselves and describe their daily life after being underage.
First, it's time. If you plan to study hard, please be prepared to have no weekends for more than two years, because you may not have any evenings yet. Minor courses focus on weekends, but it is not enough credit to attend classes only on weekends, so the courses will be arranged in the evening. But it is not absolute, and the arrangements of different schools will still be different. The curriculum is based on the free time that most people have. In the past two years, there have been few conflicts.
There are also holidays, mainly National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. We have a holiday as usual, and there is no class on the day of taking the CET-4 and CET-6. At other times, if things conflict, you can ask the teacher for leave. Teachers are relatively tolerant because they are underage. Except for a few teachers who definitely need a counselor to write a note, it is reasonable for other teachers to send a leave message and then deduct their usual grades accordingly. I have no experience to learn from the analogy major who wants to skip class.
The other is the exam, which is also very painful to say. After all, everyone has experienced the final exam, especially the university, and the intensity of reviewing in a short time is great. Because some courses in our school end in the middle of the semester, and then other courses are arranged in the second half of the semester, basically starting from the ninth and tenth weeks, the professional courses arranged in advance will enter the preparation stage, and then the minor courses will end one after another in about 13 weeks and 14 weeks, and the exams are generally arranged in 15 weeks and 16 weeks. So I was in this state for several semesters from the mid-term exam to the final exam, and I couldn't relax for a few days. When preparing for this professional exam, I will also take up the weekend time as usual, which will virtually save you a lot of review time than others.
Of course, I am in the state of preparing for the exam every three days, and some students are preparing for the whole day or all night. Probably these students don't feel like me, so the authenticity of this article varies from person to person.
The examination cycle is not only long in time span, but also very dense sometimes. Once, I had to take four exams in a weekend, which coincided with the approaching examination time of this major and the activities of the community. After finishing this major, I found that time is already tight, and the activities of the community can not be shirked. It was really passive. I stay up until one o'clock, usually at eleven o'clock. Fortunately, with the usual accumulation, the score is ok. Although I describe it in a normal tone, you can put yourself in a certain scene to think.
In fact, there are differences between different minor majors. For example, a classmate of mine who is studying law. They often take open-book exams. Although they still have to prepare, relatively speaking, as long as they listen carefully at ordinary times, they will be fine, and they don't need to work so hard as we do. Summarizing the daily life of underage students actually seems very hard. When you actually get it, you will find that it is not as difficult as you think.
3. About minor tuition fees and other issues
Minors generally charge according to credits, or according to each academic year/yuan, two years. Take our school as an example, the tuition fee is 120/ credit, and the tuition fee for two years is less than 8500. Plus the cost of buying books, because we can find them in second-hand bookstores and sell them to our younger brothers and sisters after use (the books I minored in for two years have been sold around 200 yuan), so there is not much cost. Fees charged by semester should also be less than 5000, and the fees are reasonable.
After minor, it doesn't mean that you can't take a part-time job. At that time, I had a minor and a part-time tutor, and the club was busy. I have participated in fewer competitions, but it's not that I can't win prizes if I don't participate. Don't think it's incredible that I have to work late every day. When I was in the dormitory, my roommate was much later than me. At that time, I went to bed at eleven o'clock. I was already asleep when they came back, and I didn't get up when they left at the weekend. Occasionally it will be a little late, but the overall state is busy but it won't make you very tired.
Later, considering the time problem, I didn't continue to do part-time jobs in my junior year, so I can't say that my minor has no effect on part-time jobs, but I can control it myself. Then I will save my minor's money and make up for it with part-time jobs and scholarships. It won't be too difficult.
Finally, say something irrelevant Sometimes when I think about these experiences, I feel that I used to be so "awesome", but when I think about it, it is not. We are all ordinary people who live every day and never face many insurmountable obstacles. If you really want to do it, then do it. We are still young, so what if we are wrong? Even if we find ourselves taking a detour, students who want to minor should not always hesitate. When the university doesn't know what to do, just keep busy studying. Even if you finally find out that you don't want to minor, that's good, then you should learn something else, such as new media, photography, ps and so on.
Finally, I don't know if it is the last one, because the text part has actually ended here. Students who are hesitant about minor should have a general concept of minor. That's not all, because you can add (3) writing graduation thesis and internship report about minor, and talking about some purely exploratory questions, such as whether minor is water, but these are not suitable for students facing choices, because they are still far away from you. So don't say it's over, let's see if there is a sequel to everyone's reaction.
Codewords are not easy. I sincerely write this long paragraph here, which fills many gaps and mistakes in small problems. At that time, I stumbled, heard from hearsay and chose a minor. I just hope this article can reduce your confusion and help you make a choice, which is worthwhile. See the friends here, if you can, click on a praise to support it. If you have any questions, you can leave a message and reply when you have time.