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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Quitting

I hate Spanish. I really hate it. I've never liked the language; when they made me take it in 8th grade I thought it was an ugly language. I took French all through high school as well as one year last year and I love it. Unfortunately the French I've taken so far wasn't enough to satisfy the language requirement I have to meet as a global studies major, and I've wanted to learn Spanish for a while now just because it's such a useful language, so last semester I thought "I already know French, so rather than take a class I already know I'll just take Spanish for my language requirement. It'll be great!" What I did not foresee was a less-than-great Spanish professor last semester (this sentiment was confirmed my multiple people in the class, it wasn't just me), so that I left Spanish 2 feeling like I hadn't learned anything at all, and now I'm in Spanish 3, taking solely out of necessity a language I don't like much in the first place, plus I feel like I'm really behind and can barely keep up. This is causing me a great deal of inner turmoil, because I am not a quitter. I would like very much to drop Spanish; it's making me miserable and I'm sure I could get into a French class in the future to fulfill my language requirement, but I have never quit anything in my life. Somehow "I'm bad at it and I don't like it" does not seem like a good enough reason for me to quit anything, even though I don't even like the easy parts. If I can stick it out for the rest of the semester my language requirement will be satisfied and I'll know Spanish. Or I'll bs my way through the class, be miserable all semester, and finish feeling like I still don't know Spanish, which wouldn't be worth it. Spanish is such a useful language to know, and I feel like I would use it a lot in the future. Or I won't; if there's one thing I've learned in my life it's that God likes to change my plans. I have no idea what to do. Please give me advice.

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  2. you're in college. you get to do whatever the heck you want.
    quit the dumb language.
    :)

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