BS Legal Management minor in X and Y

College is the stage where one decides who he wants to be for the next twenty to forty years. Choosing a degree program is a very tough decision to make. After choosing and getting into a degree program in a good university, the next problem is how to spend your college life. Should one join many orgs and be active in all of them. What minors should one take? Indeed, having this additional phrase in one's course is nice to hear: AB/BS X minor in Y. To be able to add that phrase, one has to take additional five subject in his individual program of study. This mean that he is to take more load than what other normal people are taking. However, the greatest dilemma is where should one minor in?

Taking a look at the curriculum of the degree programs in the Ateneo, one may notice that there are so many extra subjects which are called "core subjects". We, Ateneans have to take subjects which are really that connected to their courses. For example, Math 11/12 is not really connected to English Literature. @-) These subjects are present not only in our freshmen year. An Atenean will always have this kind of subjects in all his years of stay in the Ateneo. Introduction to blah blah and whatever, introduction to everything. Others may not understand why this is being done but having read the 'minors' part of our OrSem manual, I came to realize why they do this. This gives us, Ateneans, the privilege to minor on whatever we want. This enables them us to discover what we really want and where we are really good at. These basic subjects of almost everything serve as options for enriching our knowledge not only in the degree program we are taking but also in other fields which may not be that related to this certain degree program being taken.

For us, management students, we are obliged to have a minor in a management field. We will be taking these subjects in our senior year. Examples of these fields are Finance, Marketing, SOMBA, etc. However, that will come in the later years.

Just a few weeks ago, I realized that I want to minor in something non-management besides the one I will be taking in fourth year. I want to take it during my sophomore and junior year so it will not clash with my management minor. I am just so confused on what minor should I take. Right now, I am still really not capable of minoring in something because I took the basic English subject. Unlike other normal students, I still have to take up English 12 during the first semester of my sophomore year and the last Filipino subject, Fil 14, in the second semester. I am not really interested in minoring in English Literature. On the other hand, I am still not sure about Filipino. In order to minor in Filipino, one should have no grades lower than B in Fil 11-14. As of now, my Fil grades are okay --meaning I can minor in Filipino. But just like what Erika said, paano kung mali yung calling ko? What if Filipino 14 is harder than Fil 11 and 12 right? I will have to take the required courses starting my junior year so it will really clash with management minor. Besides that, minoring in Filipino is something others are not considering. It may not really benefit anyone especially a management students. I tried to joke to Mama about minoring in Filipino. She was kind of disapproving of it. :| I also thought of Philosophy. Minoring in Philosophy can prepare me for Law school and yes, I am interested in Philosophy but I still have not taken any course under it. I think in our curriculum, it is in our junior year. What if I am not good at it? Also, minoring in Philosophy will require me to stay a year more in Ateneo. :|

Right now, I am still confused. Oh well. O_O

Sana kagaya na lang ako ni Chris Tiu. Double major (not sure kung ME o MH, but the other one is AMF), minor in Chinese Studies and basketball varsity. Kung totoo nga talaga, hands down sa kanya.