<p>Howday! So here's my deplorable situation. It will be lengthly and I will go on tangents (I really think I have ADHD-I)... but what I aim to do is to describe in depth and from multiple perspectives of what's been happening.</p>
<p>I'm in my second semester of Junior year, and a declared Supply Chain Management major plus an Energy and Sustainability minor at the University of Houston. I chose SCM as a major because none of the majors at the business school really appealed to me, so process of elimination brought me there. After finishing my cores the first two years my GPA has dropped to a 2.709 by the end of Fall 2013. This is because of forgetfulness, skipping class, and overall apathy over almost all of the courses I have been taking after my major was declared. I've even joined a certain business organization, and am a minor officer there, but most of what I personally got out of it was networking and having a group of friends to do all sorts of dumb stuff in the weekends. I find a good majority of my fellow business students to be relatively well spoken, and assertive and need be, which are traits that I lack but of which I'm trying to develop. In group projects, I was always on the passive side because the assertiveness of fellow group members was too much for me to handle. On top of this, I was working on Sundays and Wednesdays at a food distribution company from 11pm to 5 in the morning the next day (quit very recently, broke again).</p>
<p>You may be asking, so what is it that I do when generally "slacking off" and putting off important assignments and deadlines? </p>
<p>-deep breath- </p>
<p>reading up on history, looking at historical maps (I literally get enthralled by time lapses of countries rising and growing and falling apart), keeping up with the latest political news, especially geopolitical events but politics in the U.S. too, comparing and contrasting related languages, reading about how certain languages evolved over time (e.g. how they sounded like at different stages of history), the phenomenon of language disglossia, doing alright accents and impressions</p>
<p>... as you may be able to discern, just mostly not stuff I'd say most business majors would even want to chat about when with their friends (most of my friends are business majors, so I keep these interests on the down low so I won't get ostracized----one time I was debating someone about the Peloponnesian War and I got really strange looks----plus once I drew a world map from memory on the whiteboard of the office of my business organization when it was mostly empty, cuz whatevs right?).</p>
<p>Now I'll tell you why I'm considering Chinese: I remember in Chinese class during high school, being from a Taiwanese family that forbade me to use English home despite having lived here since the age of three, I hardly made below a 95, so I was hella beast with that tish (those last few words mean "understandably proficient and competent" for my older peeps). I also got paid 500 bucks once to be an interpreter for a local firm in Houston that flew in a Chinese vice executive from a steel company in China so he would generally understand what was going on when meet with clients or just touring the city. 4 day gig. Opened a checking account (I don't think my parents knew how much kids these days are getting paid in allowance) I remember while our Chinaman was walking around a museum about oil in Galveston, one of the guys I was with was explaining to me the different parts of a oil rig or whatever, and it was hard for me to put up a front of actively listening because deep down I didn't find it very interesting, and then he told me he was telling me all that because he hoped I can get something out of the experience, after which I thought "crap... eh I'm here for the cash". Sorry for the tangent, but the above sentences were meant to emphasize how apathetic I realized I was to fields connected to what I'm currently studying.</p>
<p>I just looked at a course catalogue for the Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Studies offered at UH, and their advanced courses I can potentially take are very aligned to stuff I think I would really be into, like: China: Early civilization to 1600, Issues in Chinese Language and Linguistics, A look into Modern China... </p>
<p>If you made it this far, congrats! LOL. But yeah, given the above factors, what do you guys think would be the best course of action for me to take?</p>