<p>Currently I’m a senior in high school and I need to start deciding on a major for college. My 3 interests are history, nursing, and dance.
I’ve always loved history, I get excited when reading about pretty much any kind of history. I used to consider archaeology, but this semester I’m dual enrolled and took anthropology and I was rather bored. The whole time I felt like there was no point in studying this.
This summer I just started to consider nursing. More than anything, I love to help people, and helping people with their health seems like something I would find fulfilling.
The only thing keeping me from nursing is the 2 known passions in my life: dance and history. Unfortunately, I can’t combine all three. The bad part about nursing is that it’s very intensive and I won’t be able to do anything else, like dance classes. I could do a double major in dance and history, but it’s not very practical.
A thought that occurred to me today is doing physical therapy and taking dance on the side as much as possible.
If anyone else has any advice about this, I would really appreciate it! I know ultimately I have to make the decision, but advice from others is always helpful.</p>
<p>Nursing is always more practical, but practicality shouldn’t necessarily be your only factor in choosing a major. If you have a passion for history and dance, you could be a history major and have plenty of room for dance on the side or have some sort of minor that’s related (Is there a dance minor? I’m guessing not) but you might want to think about what career that will lead to. I admit a limited knowledge, but I’m guessing you’d end up either in academia as a history teacher at some level, or a writer, or some kind of researcher. Or, alternatively, you’d end up with a job that is likely unrelated. Maybe it could take you into politics? Point being, consider what career it will lead to and if you can see yourself doing that for a living. </p>
<p>If you’d rather make dance your primary thing, you could be a dance teacher or a professional dancer and also just be a history buff. Nothing wrong with that. But for that you’d probably not need to go to college, although you might need to go to a dance school post-secondary. I wouldn’t know a lot about opportunities in that realm, but you get the idea.</p>
<p>If you do choose nursing, dance and history can also be hobbies or areas of interest. Personally, I think whether you choose nursing over the two is an issue of practicality, because while you may find it tolerable you don’t seem to have a passion for it, and nurses are always needed. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>You have a ton of options.</p>
<p>I agree with physiotherapy. It’s often a popular choice with sports orientated people who want a job in the industry, might not be able to be a professional player but have an interest in science, partiularly anatomy. You could be physio for a dance company or specialise in dance injuries working in New York. </p>
<p>Another health related career would be podiatry- foot and lower limb medicine including surgery- requires grad school and pre-podiatry requirements but you could do any major for your undergraduate. </p>
<p>Nutrition, too. </p>
<p>Other interesting areas high school students don’t tend to know about so much are OT- problem solving often little things that make such a difference in a person’s life.</p>
<p>Hospital based social work. Would med school even be an option? </p>
<p>Off the wall idea would be shoe making/ footwear design. There’s a specialist college in the UK part of London’s University of the Arts which is famous for shoe design. Might give you an insight into a similar major in the States:</p>
<p>[BA</a> (Hons) Cordwainers Footwear: Product Design and Innovation - University of Arts London](<a href=“http://www.arts.ac.uk/fashion/courses/undergraduate/ba-cordwainers-footwear/]BA”>http://www.arts.ac.uk/fashion/courses/undergraduate/ba-cordwainers-footwear/)</p>
<p>How about an academic career in the History of Dance/ Theatre? This would fit with either a double major or a dance minor. </p>
<p>Remember also that nursing can be studied at grad school for new entrants. So, in theory and subject to having the correct pre-req classes, you could do your history/dance major and then move onto nursing. This would be a longer and more expensive way of doing things but might be right for you. </p>
<p>One caveat- you found anthropology uninteresting. The college experience of history is very different to high school or just reading lots of books on an era you enjoy. There is lots and lots of theory- on interpretation, evidence, political, ethical, issues. Not very much day dreaming about travelling back in time (17th Century London for me, via the 1880s…)</p>
<p>Regardless of becoming a health professional, teacher, dancer or academic- having a healthy interest in other pursuits will keep you mentally and physically well to perform better and enjoy your work.</p>