An Artistic Kid who Doesn't Want to Major in Art

I studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard. I am sure my art classes would have been better somewhere else, but I learned a lot from my fellow students at Harvard and from the non-art classes I took. My major included architectural history at the time (not sure if it still does), and I loved every one of those courses. If I had ever gone the academic route - that is what I would have pursued. I knew nothing about that field when I was in high school.

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I would consider studying what you love in undergraduate school and doing internships or summer jobs in a career area you are thinking about. I studied religion and wrote poetry in college, but I had no trouble getting a job in publishing when I got out because I had learned to type and had summer work on my resume already. It gave me an edge even over Ivy-league grads with no work experience.