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So I got in to Griffith College. I'm going there tomorrow for an open day and I'll be able to ask all my questions and hopefully feel a bit wiser on everything afterwards.
I have a lot of thoughts about studying and this is what I think...

I am really looking forward to starting college. I hope I picked the right thing for me to do. Journalism and Visual Media.
It basically means that I will be able to combine photography and writing and then when I start my career I can choose to do a bit of both or focus on what feels right at the time. I have three years to try it out so I should be able to make up my mind by then.
I might take some extra classes in other things once I’ve finished this degree though. If I still feel like studying I might do a minor in social psychology and/or behavioural psychology.
It interests me a lot and I think it could really help when working as a Journalist. Also I really need to get better at History and Geography… I totally didn’t care back in school and mostly know about the history of fascist movements – mostly in Sweden – and that’s not even up to date so it wouldn’t really help me here.
It might be enough to get some books on it and read on my own – I don’t think I really need a diploma in it. I should wish for that for Christmas. Maybe an atlas and some sort of summary of modern history for a start… a book that tells history globally and with an overview.
In school we always read about either one country at the time or one war at the time – which to me felt so out of context. It made it hard to grasp and understand why and how things happened. The important thing to me is to understand the whole picture and that one action in one country effects the actions in another... like a cause and consequence sort of history telling. That is how our drama teacher used to teach us. It happened sometimes that we sat through a whole lesson where we should have been practising Shakespeare and instead she would tell us the whole cause and effect of something we were all confused about in History or Religion or whatever – and I learned more in those classes than anywhere else because she told it logically and the big deal wasn’t memorising dates but to really understand why things happen the way they do and how they come about. That is the whole point in knowing history. To know roughly the dates is of course important in some ways too but I think that part will come naturally once you get an understanding of what happened.


So! If anyone can find me a book like that, please tell me!!! I have no idea where to even start looking.

Now I’m going to read The Irish Times and try figure out what happened with whole financial crisis – where did all the money go? If everyone is loosing money someone must be getting some more somewhere. Someone must have them… Or were they really just numbers on a screen after all? Like I always said… :)

xh