UCB vs UCLA My life choice...

Tapioka
Thu, 09 May 2013 02:04:26 +0000

I live in near LA. I have never lived in noCal. I have both fear and wonder to start my new life. I don’t know which one will win, fear or wonder. UCLA will be good for having the stable life since my close friends and relatives are here and I think it is very important. I mean it will be stressful as well as studying at Cal. I like the LA’s weather(I like sunny weather it makes me feel good) and UCLA campus(just by looking, I don’t know about parking and stuff), too. Also, UCLA psych seems to have more variety curriculum than Cal psych. For Cal, I don’t even consider reputation and prestige any more. I only think about double major in art and its possibility. UCLA does offer double major in art, but they made it impossible to double major for the students who has other majors. But Cal seems that they open up the art major to everyone.(I emailed both schools.)

I have been hoping to go to art school since junior high, and for some reasons I had to stop dreaming about it. Now, I have a chance to have art degree, but still there are some other factors that make me hesitate. If I have double major in art, I will graduate late. I kinda don’t want this, because I am really old… I am supposed to work right now.(I don’t have any work experience even!) All my friends are working and my father who is supporting me is getting old and I have two younger siblings. Also, if I want to go to art therapy master’s degree, they don’t need a degree in art. I just need to take few art classes to fulfill the requirements. Some say you don’t need the degree and you can do art as hobby. That is true, but I think it is different to do art as major and hobby. It is maybe my greediness who is saying to have double major. It is just tempting. And maybe if it is really the greediness then, it is better to put it down since greediness ruins everything.

My dream was art therapist and now I am confused. Since I am an international student who wants to get a job here in the U.S. later, I have to think about my career really in dept. The process to get a job as a foreigner is not easy since even for Americans are not easy today. So, now I am considering to major in clinical psychology because it seems more competitive than art therapy. Some people say don’t give up your dream and the job is something you have to do for your life, so just be the best art therapist and then you will get employed. But then, some people say I have to go for the competitive job because I am foreigner who even don’t speak fluently like native Americans. If I go to clinical psychology major, UCLA has stronger graduate program in clinical psychology according to US news ranking.(I couldn’t get any data besides that yet.) But there is no guarantee that I can get in to UCLA graduate program after undergraduate degree in UCLA and if I go to Cal I can go to UCLA graduate school after.

By choosing the school to transfer, I am thinking about whole my life. I don’t know it is damn important for me!
I know that life doesn’t go as I plan, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t have to plan.
I really want to make right decision and I don’t want to regret about my choice at all.

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