Discoveries while cleaning my closet: List of Baccalaureate Majors at Indiana University

Probably from either Freshman Orientation or sometime during my freshman year at IU.

I ended up with a double major in Psychology and Math with minors in Spanish and Outdoor Recreation and Resource Mangagement.

Here are the majors I marked as possible interests on the list:
Anthropology
Communication and Culture
Criminal Justice
Environmental Science
Geography
Geological Sciences
Individualized Major Program
International Studies
Mathematics
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Spanish
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Telecommunications
International Business
Secondary Educ/Content Areas
Environmental Management
Health Administration
Environmental Science
Dietetics
Nutrition Science
Occupational Safety
Public Health Education
Exercise Science
Fitness Specialist
Outdoor Recreation and Resource Management
Park and Recreation Management
Therapeutic Recreation

I think if I were to go back through and mark them again, I would end up with more, not less, possible interests for majors on the list. (Journalism, Informatics, Linguistics, Tourism Management, Policy Studies, Non Profit Management, Marketing, Finance, Public Policy Analysis, and Economics)

Glad I already have that decision made!

Why I probably should have recycled my notes from college years ago....

I just grabbed a little stack of notes from college from my closet to get rid of. Clips from the first four papers that caught my eye

-Movie Review on Viva Zapata!, a film from 1952 that I wrote up for my boss in the Spanish Department

-Formulas, drawings, and arrows all over a blank page with the problem at the top ¨Let (X,Y) be a random pt on region R = (x,y): abs(x)+abs(y)<1 and calculations for the marginal densities of X and Y

-A paper from my P304 class from October 2, 2008 titled ¨Development of Self-Concept¨

-A copy of an article by Shane R. Cudney called ¨Heroes, Hoboes, and the Question of Ethics: A Response to Brian Pronger´s ´Outta My Endzone: Sport and the Territorial Anus´¨

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Two years out of undergrad, I miss being a student but at the same time am glad to be done with it for the time being.

I´m also not convinced that I would be capable of doing the work I did as an undergrad at the same level now as I did then..... Yikes!

In any case, it´s time for some serious dejunking of my room, closet, and life. That´s been a sort of ongoing project since I got home.

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Came across this article called ¨How to Get Rid of Things: Understanding The Sentimental Mind.¨ I feel so understood!

http://tumbledesign.com/how-to-get-rid-of-things-understanding-the-sentimental-mind/

Back in the land of.... SECOND HAND STORES

Although they´re responsible for at least 20% of the crap filling up my closet right now, I´m back in the land of Goodwill, Salvation Army, Plato´s closet, and Half-Price Books on every other corner.

Love it.

$15/bag at Plato´s closet with my sister. $7.50 each for 26 different items of new or ¨gently used¨ name brand clothes. Threw a few in the re-donate bag right away because they didn´t fit, but still a bargain!

Donated 5 bags of stuff this week. The overalls, which fit unfortunately well, I had around ¨just in case¨ had to go. The Kenny G and showtunes CDs that I got on clearance at Half-Price Books 5 years ago for $2 or $3 a piece are next. Might be better to bring them straight to Goodwill instead of trying to get 50 cents a piece from them selling them back to Half-Price.... Both for my own sense of pride (wayyyy too much Amy Grant and Kenny) and to avoid the temptation of buying SO MUCH MORE CHEAP STUFF.







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What I´ve learned about Half-Price Books today
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¨I worked at Half-Price Books for a year. HPB only hires full-time employees, and one reason I think is that by spending 40 hours a week in the store, employees get a good idea of what sells and what doesn't, and for how much. After a few weeks of training, I got pretty of good at just eyeballing a batch of books and breaking it down: "This will sell for $5, this will go for $7, these paperbacks will go for $1 each" and so on. Of course we could only offer sellers a fraction of what we sold them for, so we would only offer $1 for the $5 book, maybe $1.50 for the $7 book and $1 for 8 paperbacks. Also, there was a lot (a lot) that we didn't sell and either donated, recycled, or threw away. I saw enough Stephen King paperbacks to last a lifetime, so a dog-eared Cujo from the 1980's would not go on the shelf, it would get tossed.

Or in other words, what Jessamyn said.
posted by Kronoss at 7:17 AM on April 26, 2007¨


They then take the bulk of your books to the dumpster

Which is the reason that HPB is a great place to dumpster dive.
posted by richrad at 8:14 AM on April 26, 2007

http://ask.metafilter.com/61370/How-does-Half-Price-Books-determine-the-trade-in-value-of-bookscdsdvds

Watching Carmen

On DVD. From the Fishers Public Library. I can´t believe this is the first time I´ve seen it. Though I might not have appreciated it as much before? It´s making me want to be in Sevilla. Watching operas on DVD by myself in my basement in Fishers, IN is a close second though. <-true

Anyone want to join for Acts 3 and 4?

Back home again in Indiana....

I´ve been back for 2 weeks today. Not sure if it feels much longer or much shorter than that.

I´ve stayed busy so far. Visits from college roommates, weekend trip to Merrillville to see a few friends, dentist appointments, Lake Michigan day trip with the fam, money transfers, unpacking, applying at temp agencies, drinking lots of coffee....

It´s been interesting. A little overwhelming. But good, I think.