{"id":48,"date":"2011-10-14T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liberalarts\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-10-14T15:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:47:37","slug":"the-art-of-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/liberalarts\/2011\/10\/14\/the-art-of-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Amber Gomes\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have never posted in a blog before… I\u2019ve read some (including the other CLA ones) and it seems like they are all really witty or just outright clever in some way. So when we talked about writing blogs as Ambassadors my first thought was \u201cCrap! How am I going to be that funny?\u201d and my second thought was \u201cWhat in the heck do I write about?\u201d Eventually I decided\u2026 \u201cWho cares about being funny? It\u2019s more important to be honest right?\u201d So then I moved onto the real problem\u2026 what in the world do I want to say to you guys?<\/p>\n

My first thought was the importance of getting involved; be it a sport, intramurals, a club, student government, a fraternity, sorority, honor society or what have you. You make lifelong friends when you decide to do something social with your free time. Obviously studying is important, I mean we are in college that\u2019s kind of a key element of the whole scenario, but balance really is essential to mental well-being and you should enjoy your time here too! But everyone you meet is going to encourage you to get involved so I figured a blog on it would only be redundant. So I decided that I want to share something that may be just a little bit cheesy but is seriously really important.<\/p>\n

Listen to yourself!<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Cheesy? Yes! Clich\u00e9? Quite possibly. But REALLY!!!! DO IT!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statistics say that college students change their majors four times on average; I actually never did (though I did change one of my minors) but I do know others who have. For example my friend, let\u2019s call him Reginald (because Bob is overused), spent the first three years of his college career as a civil engineer. We were talking the other day and he was telling me he just switched his major. Apparently Reginald had always thought the classes he was taking were kind of lame\u2026 but he kept telling himself \u201cThey are going to get more interesting! They are going to get more fun<\/em>!\u201d and turns out they never did. So after three years, and who knows how much money, he finally decided to make that major switch. Reginald is now officially a Mathematics major. Personally I don\u2019t see how that could be any more fun than Civil Engineering BUT the point is that it is not my opinion that matters. It\u2019s not your teacher\u2019s opinion, your advisor\u2019s opinion, your friend\u2019s opinion or even your parents\u2019 opinions! It is your opinion<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t set yourself up to hate school by taking classes or sticking with a major you don\u2019t like! You have that whole big broad range of classes to choose from as you fill your bacc core\u2026 choose ones in different fields! I\u2019m an International Degree Political Science major with minors in Spanish and Psychology (yes I love my Liberal Arts) but I know because I took the most random bacc core classes that I also LOVE history and medical anthropology and I know from other random bacc cores that cultural anthropology is not necessarily my thing. I know I hate math but that public health classes and biology can be super interesting. Oddly enough it\u2019s even kind of fun to know about different kinds of rocks as a result of my geology 101 class (at least my little brother thinks its cool). I won\u2019t say that I enjoyed or even cruised through all of my classes but I can honestly say I have learned a lot about myself as a result of trying new things. And my best piece of advice to you, the youngest of the beaver nation is to be active in your education! After all, it kind of does help to determine your future!<\/p>\n

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