My degree and Archaeology

            I’ve thought about what I could do for my major.  I don’t know how long it will take at this point to get my degree.  The reason for this uncertainty is that I don’t know how many courses I will take this next semester.  I have to pass the courses I have taken now, and then I will be able to make an informed decision.  I want to finish up an associates degree in behavioral science and later get my bachelors.  I would like to transfer to the University ofUtah; after getting my degree.  The only thing that is keeping me from staying at U.V.S.C. is the lack of a serious archaeology program.  I love archaeology and the program falls under the behavioral science department.  I don’t know what to do with a degree in archaeology.  I just know that I would like to study the subject of archaeology.

            The one class that U.V.S.C. does offer in the field of archaeology; I have taken and thoroughly enjoyed.  The class was taught by Professor Stecker.  He would stand in front of the class and tell stories of his adventures and then relate the subject matter to the current subject.  I would like to have the opportunity to have some of these same experiences to relate to friends and family members.  The reason I bring this up in this journal entry.  Is that with all the recent papers and journals I have written for this class, I have given the subject a lot more thought.  I have wondered with a degree in archaeology what can I do if I don’t get into graduate school?  I am taking a degree that I have a personal interest in and I feel it will better me as a person.  Yet, if I don’t get into a graduate school whether law or medicine the degree will be worthless.  This relates to the article I wrote about.  Should I be motivated to find another major that would benefit me financially or stay with the major I have and hope for the best? 

            My financial worries of the future are not enough for me to change my degree.  I find that if I don’t get into the schools I would like; then I will make do at that time.  Heck, I might even become a college professor and get a doctorate degree in archaeology.  I just don’t know what the future holds for me and my degree.  I have decided thinking more upon the matter that I will take my degree that I get in archaeology and apply it to whatever career I accept.  That financial motivation will not change my mind on whether I am an archaeology major or a financial major.  I find the articles that I read about digs throughout the world to be some of the most interesting written works that I have read.  They describe the finds and the excavation methods that are being applied to that dig.  I am glad that I have read up and thought more on the subject.     

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