What's In a Major?
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by user Happyskinny
In the fall I am going to be a senior at Clemson University. I am majoring in Sport Management, with a minor in Business Administration. I'm curious, what pops in your head first when you find out someone is a Sport Management major? Lazy, slacker, parties too much, doesn't study or want to learn? Maybe all of those things, maybe not, but thats what I'd like to find out.
When I was looking at schools, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. All of my friends were going into engineering, business, finance, or something along those lines. I didn't want anything to do with that, because I knew I would not be passionate about it. If I don't have a passion for it, I will not succeed in whatever I'm doing, and this was my life so I better damn well have a passion for it.
The one thing that I did have a great passion for was sport. When I found out you could major in it, I said well thats for me. I have always been interested in the behind the scenes action of what goes on in professional sport, from scouting all the way up to general managing.
When I got to school and told people what I was majoring in, people laugh and look at you like your an idiot. I wasn't prepared for this at all. It wasn't just one person, it was a lot of people. It angered me, but its not like I can come back and say yeah, well your bio engineering degrees not gonna get you anywhere. People think I'm just at school to party(which dont get me wrong, I love that part of college as well) and not learn. Thats totally wrong. I want to learn everything I can about the business. I want to have a foot forward when I go into my internship this summer. Thats why right now I'm working with the Pawtucket Red Sox, the Triple A affilliate of the Boston Red Sox so I can get some experience. I didn't come home over the summer and work at Mcdonalds. I took a pay cut of four dollars an hour(which is alot when your a college student with no money) to work at the bottom in the sport that I love. That sounds like committment to me.
I had to write this after last night some girl asked me my major and I told her and she said oh yeah, you look like one of those kids and basically told me my major was a joke. Don't judge people based on a few things you've heard, or what you think, because you may have no idea. Let the persons knowledge inform you of who they are, not their label.
Date
Wed 07/26/06, 11:22 pm EST
