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.

Endings...

Things are beginning to end.



Two of my private classes finished earlier this month. My gym membership runs out tomorrow. My French roommate, Mathilde, moved out yesterday morning, and we all went out to a Galician restaurant with good seafood and plenty of wine for our last meal together on Tuesday. Nacho and Emma, my other two roommates, both have a few days or weeks left, but they won´t ever be in the apartment at the same time, so they´ve said their good-byes to each other.

Today I signed up for the end of the year comida (large lunch) with the teachers at my school on the 27th. I´m starting to recycle papers, donate clothes, and think about downsizing my things so they can fit in a suitcase.

I´ve had the ¨yes I´m going home, and no I´m not working at this school next year, and no I´m not sure when I´ll be back, and no, I don´t know what concretely I´ll be doing next year¨ conversation with every teacher at school at least twice I think.

I´m heading to Morocco this weekend, something I´ve wanted to do since I first arrived to Spain. Last weekend I finally made it out to Toledo and Alcalá de Henares in two day trips after living a short bus ride away from them the whole year.

Thinking about using up the canned vegetables and frozen things I have in the house. Took my sleeping bag off the clothes hanger and stuffed it into its stuff sack this afternoon.

Tomorrow is the ¨bilingual program graduation ceremony and breakfast¨ at school. I spent a while earlier this week designing the certificates.

Lots of good-bye parties and long nights and tapas and trips and out-of-town visitors and meeting really great people right before leaving and dancing and chatting and eating out. I´m tired and busy but enjoying myself a lot and a little sad but mostly in a bit of a daze of endings and ending-related events.

Since I´m thinking specifically about my roommates right now and how glad I am to have felt so comfortable living with them all year, here we are:





Not sure I´ll ever get around to all the retroblogging I could do, and I still have just over 2 weeks left, but things and people are already beginning to change and move. It´s been a good but exhausting week/weekend/week.

Thanks, Jose

My landlord is an odd one. He sends us text messages and e-mails all the time. Sometimes they´re related to the apartment, but a lot of times they seem to come out of nowhere.




Yesterday, before I even heard about it in the newspaper, he sent us information about the contaminated food alert for Spanish cucumbers in an e-mail.

¨La UE ha declarado este jueves la alerta alimentaria por contaminación
bacteriana procedente de pepinos biológicos españoles. La Comisión Europea
sospecha que pepinos procedentes de Holanda pudieran estar también en el
origen de la contaminación. Esto puede suponer la retirada del producto de
los establecimientos comerciales del territorio de la Unión.

Bruselas ha informado a las autoridades de los 27 estados miembros, a
través del sistema de alerta rápido (la RASFF por sus siglas en inglés),
de la propagación de la infección intestinal que ha provocado hasta el
momento al menos tres muertos, según las autoridades alemanas. También se
han detectado casos de la enfermedad en Suecia (10), Dinamarca (4), Reino
Unido (3) y Holanda (1).¨




Back in January he sent us the following text message:
"Han bajado la cota d nieve en Madrid a 600m, eso quiere decir que si continua bajando la temperatura nevara en la capital."

Why? No idea. Maybe he was excited about the snow?





Earlier this week he sent this link for a music festival http://www.radicalmadrid.com/entrada02.html "in case you like this type of music."




And, maybe my favorite of all of them, was a 4 part e-mail series in December called "Madrid es mucho Madrid", with historical information and tips for visiting the Palacio Real, Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, the Teatro Real, and various Chocolaterías and Bombonerías around town.

""Madrid es mucho Madrid" va dirigido para que comprendais los valores y
significados de cosas importantes de la ciudad en que vivís, viene a ser
un resultado muy intelectual al cual muchos de los que nos visitan incluso
estudiantes nunca llegarían a saber."

""Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso". El dicho, que por lo demás hace
referencia a la necesidad de hablar claro, explica cómo se toma en España
el alimento que en el siglo XVI trajeron de América los conquistadores
españoles, y que ha sido siempre uno de los mayores placeres, a veces
adicción, de la sociedad europea. Caliente y a la taza, se podría añadir,
y acompañado de churros o porras en ocasiones, pero también en su versión
bombón y otras variantes que ofrecen numerosas chocolaterías y bombonerías
de esta ciudad."



Thanks, Jose. Looking forward to your next random bit of knowledge being sent to my e-mail address or phone.... Maybe...