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		<title>Two Minors or Not To Minor?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there are two new minors this year at my university that I am interested in, the Entrepreneurial Minor and the Writing Minor. The problem is, I don&#8217;t know which to pick, if any, or if I could handle both. The deal is, I&#8217;m already looking at being here four and a half to five [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So there are two new minors this year at my university that I am interested in, the Entrepreneurial Minor and the Writing Minor. The problem is, I don&#8217;t know which to pick, if any, or if I could handle both. The deal is, I&#8217;m already looking at being here four and a half to five years <em>with</em> summer studies to stay caught up in my art studies. AND I&#8217;m trying to study abroad. I don&#8217;t know if I can fit it in, let alone handle the insanity of a double minor.</p>
<p>Considering I will pick one, I&#8217;m balancing which would be more useful versus fun. Entrepreneurial would certainly be useful. I can see it being creative and fun. I mean, being an entrepreneur means starting your own business from scratch and being your own boss. Keeping a business like that takes <em>a lot</em> of creativity. So I think I&#8217;ll be okay, just as long as it doesn&#8217;t get all technical business lingo-y on me; that&#8217;d just be downright scary.</p>
<p>Writing, however, I would probably pick mostly creative writing classes since that&#8217;s what I enjoy the most. I would love to take some Creative Writing classes or Intermediate Poetry. But writing can also be useful. So many people don&#8217;t know how to communicate effectively with the written word. Or their grammar makes them sound like they&#8217;ve just graduated from Primary school. Just the other day, someone posted on facebook, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to go to class either but I already have went to one.&#8221; That makes my die a little inside, each time I read that.</p>
<p>Anyway, writing is a big part of communicating properly on the internet. You can&#8217;t be there to explain your services to someone on your website, so you have to be good at communicating effectively in writing without getting too long, or complex. I tend to be a little bit long winded (as I probably am here, but it&#8217;s my blog and I&#8217;ll rant if I want to), or I can&#8217;t think of enough to fill the space.</p>
<p>Winding down, I still can&#8217;t decide. I think next semester I will start some Intro classes for each and maybe that will help me decide. Until then, any input from readers would be great! Anything I&#8217;m forgetting to consider, ideas, opinions, your experience with college minors? Thanks!</p>
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