Course Dilemma!

Dilemma! What is dilemma? It is a situation in which somebody must choose one of two or more alternatives. If you are in a situation like this you are confused and the decision depends on you. That is what I’m experiencing right now, I am in a state of dilemma. What kind of dilemma? Well, in a “Course Dilemma”?

This year, I will be graduating from high school and will be going to the College level. Fortunately, with the help of God and prayers of the people who care for me, I passed the UPCAT examination. I am one of the students who will be given the chance to study in this prestigious and known school.

I will study in UP with the course of BA Psychology. I made it on my first choice. I was able to make it to the quota. Before I took the UPCAT, there was a form given to the applicants that asked for possible two courses in the same school. What I filled in was in UP College in Cebu with BA Psychology as my first choice and BA ComSci as the next. Actually, I am not that sure what will be my best course until today. The two courses really conflict me because I love them both.

I like Psychology because I want to understand myself and the behavior of other persons. On the other hand, I like Computer Science because since I was small, I am really fond of experimenting computers. That was what I thought when I was still not taking the UPCAT. It is not only what I like but what jobs are available for me when I already graduated in College. My mom asked me if I really want them both because personally she likes me to take up nursing. The reason why I’m not in interested in taking up nursing is that the nurses’ nowadays are so many. I am not sure if I will pass the exam in nursing if there are a lot of us competing for jobs abroad or in the Philippines. Also, the reason why I don’t like nursing is that I am not that immune in medical procedures or even blood. Nursing has become monotonous in our country and I don’t want to add on this monotony. I want a course that can both help me and also can earn money for the future of my family. That’s why I chose these two courses. Computer has been widely used nowadays while psychology can help me to understand behaviors of people and warn me on possible dangers.

A lot of people really influenced me to take up Psychology including Madam Maglasang. Madam Maglasang helped me to choose this course. She said that if I will take up BA Psychology which is industrial, I can work in banks, schools and even in companies. Working in a company and later managing a company has been my dream. I want to be an entrepreneur someday. I want to be a Chief Executive Officer of a company. I also want to guide people who lost their ways through counseling but I would appreciate it if it is in school just like what Madam Maglasang has been doing. Not only Madam Maglasang but also my cousin, who has been a Psychology graduate, who influenced me. He can understand and explain the behaviors of people around him but not all the time. He let me read books on Psychology which I found to be interesting. That made me chose BA Psychology as my first choice.

Even if I already passed the BA Psychology, I still think of BA ComSci as a course.

People say that first year in college has been an experiment stage of students who will be practicing their future jobs. We can still change our courses because it is our future that is at stake here. We must chose the things that we think is right for us. According to the saying, “Huwag kang magsalita ng tapos”, that our decisions in life are not final because only one is constant in this world and it is CHANGE! Change depends on us!