<p>As far as your last question, eh. Usually if I get a bad grade (which I don't, but lets be hypothetical for a second. bad is really relative.), it's because I probably didn't put in any effort. Really, for everything I've put effort into at UCLA I've been rewarded well, gradewise and otherwise. I think I've come to a point where I can accept personal responsibility for a bad grade. Granted there are some issues with curves and unfair grades and stuff, but I'm not talking about that because that hasn't been my experience. </p>
<p>But yeah. Even if I get a bad grade in something, if it's a class or issue that I'm interested in, I care much less about the grade than the fact that I better understand that issue. </p>
<p>I think, and this might just be me getting very old, but I think that at some point you have to consider the bigger picture. I'm not going to graduate from UCLA with a 4.0. I'm ok with that. I will have honors, College and Latin, and I do try to keep my grades as high as I can. But I won't consider it 10 weeks wasted if I got a B instead of an A. It just isn't worth it and i think that if you view it that way, it WILL have been wasted because clearly you didn't care about what you learned.</p>
<p>i love what you said right before.
"But I won't consider it 10 weeks wasted if I got a B instead of an A. It just isn't worth it and i think that if you view it that way, it WILL have been wasted because clearly you didn't care about what you learned."
very nicely said.</p>
<p>Why did you decide to do comm? Did you want to try something different at first...? If so, how adamant were you about your initial major choices and what caused any changes?</p>
<p>I knew I wanted to do Comm when I was 16. Honestly nothing else sounded interesting enough to pursue for 4 years and beyond. I like English, and wanted to be a professional writer for a while, but an English degree didn't seem terribly practical to me since I have no intention to teach and I felt like you can be a successful writer without a formal English degree. I also love history, but not enough to sit through 4 years of history classes. And again, I don't want to teach. I had similar feelings for psych and soc- I liked the subjects, but not passionately enough to pursue a degree in them. </p>
<p>I hated high school and decided that the 4yr application route wasn't for me so I started taking classes at my CCC in Senior year (I was out of high school by like 9 am...it was amazing). A girl I had my first comm class with was on the staff for our CCC student-produced magazine and suggested I try it. </p>
<p>I settled on comm because at that point my goal was to get into publishing and it was the closest thing that UCLA has to journalism. Since UCLA was really the only school I could ever see myself at, Comm it was. </p>
<p>After I got here the publishing thing seemed less appealing and I kind of fell into advertising, which I love. This is also why i really love comm- lots of options, professionally and academically. I also just love the subject matter- I find media/advertising/tv/newspapers/the internet and the business behind them really interesting and really applicable to everyday life. </p>
<p>So anyways, yeah, decided on Comm a long time ago.</p>
<p>I really wish I had figured out that I wanted to get into CommStudies earlier. Now since I'm a transfer, I have to go through the difficult process of applying to the major with everyone else which I heard was extremely unlikely for me. Still, I think I have a passion for it since I really am into advertising and mass propaganda and the Mass Media class I took in JC really got me into it.</p>
<p>Spicyroll- Yeah, I replied to your post on the UCLA LJ community. Unfortunately since comm is so crazy impacted they only take transfers who apply directly. But you can still take comm classes- there are quite a few that aren't restricted to declared majors.</p>
<p>gosh allie you make comm sound sooo awesome. :)
im thinking of taking of couple of intro classes just for the heck of it. what are some intro classes you recommend?</p>
<p>Well, I haven't taken any lower-div comm classes at UCLA since I transferred, but most people start at comm 10. It's somewhat of a weeder class but it's probably the best place to start. There tend to be a lot of underclassmen in upperdivision courses, so I imagine that after you took comm 10 if you were interested in trying some other stuff, that would be available to you. </p>
<p>The pre-reqs for most comm classes are comm 10, psych 10, and soc 10. After you get those done you can take most comm classes (save for the ones that are restricted to declared majors).</p>
<p>ETA- And yo, it IS awesome :) That's why there's so much competition.</p>
<p>I didn't take comm 10 at UCLA. I took two comparable courses at a No,community college.</p>
<p>I never said/implied that I took comm 10, just that I know a ton of people who have (since I'm, uh, a comm major). My comments about the class still stand.</p>