I guess this is my university journal, following perhaps quite a tumultuous journey.
After suffering a huge blow to my ego with quite a disappointing ATAR, I enrolled into the Bachelor of Arts at Melbourne for my first round offer. I was honestly quite excited with the options I could study within the course, as I've always been a passionate humanities student. I planned on majoring in either Economics, International Relations/Politics, Media & Communications or Chinese.
But by second-round offers, I was made a surprising offer for the Bachelor of Commerce. Having put my number one preference as the Bachelor of Commerce and having my heart set on becoming a corporate lawyer, I really thought I had hit the nail on the head with my dream course.
Having done my first semester, (with one more exam to go (Chinese)), I've come to the realisation that I truly cannot see myself doing further Commerce, whether it's continuing it until graduation or even working in the industry as something such as an analyst or consultant.
This semester I enrolled in:
- Principles of Finance
- Quantitive Methods 1
- Japanese 3
- Chinese 1
With my language subjects being my favourite subjects, whilst I found myself forcing myself to study for my Commerce subjects, I came to the realisation that Commerce isn't something I find myself enjoying. I didn't find PoF or QM1 particularly hard, although admittedly I could've done a lot more to make it less stressful. I just don't find myself interested in these subjects and maybe at large, commerce in general.
My ultimate goal is Melbourne Law School, which would mean, I don't necessarily have to use my commerce degree when going into the workforce. But I truly can't stand the idea of having to endure three to four more years of being in this degree and at this point, I'm pessimistic about my WAM being competitive enough to apply for the JD.
When thinking about my 'ideal career', I'd say working in public policy. This is a career where a commerce degree does absolutely fit, but as I've stated before, I don't find it worth enduring my degree.
So, after finding myself in this dilemma and researching into it, I am deciding to transfer into the Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Monash in 2022. In the past, I've posted on AN about contemplating whether to study Commerce or the PPE, at two different universities and ultimately settled on commerce. Having studied and loved VCE Global Politics, I considered further study and love the idea of working in government, which is why I loved the idea of the PPE, and throughout this semester, I have constantly found myself asking "what if?". The ultimate reasoning for choosing Commerce, was because at the time I wanted to become a corporate lawyer and enjoyed the prestige of Commerce at Melbourne, which made it feel like a 'safe option'. Because the PPE at Monash is fairly new, I was a bit unsure about enrolling in it.
Having gone through all of this, I do have my heart set on transferring to the PPE at Monash. Can I guarantee that I'll love it and it'll be everything I imagined? Absolutely not. But never knowing and having to suffer through a degree I am not enjoying, feels like a much riskier option to make. Ideally, I would like to enrol in PPE/Law but I am not particularly confident in my WAM, but it's still worth a shot. I have no reservations to just follow through with a JD, as that was my original plan.
Applications for mid-year are closed, so I will be applying for the 2022 intake. My ultimate game plan is to apply through VTAC for the PPE and also try to improve my WAM for a shot at PPE/Law. I will be underloading next sem to avoid incurring the cost of subjects that I won't even receive credit for and try and work on getting better grades for the subjects I do take.
My subjects for next semester I'm planning to take:
- Introductory Microeconomics (credit is transferrable for PPE)
- Accounting Reports and Analysis
- Chinese 2 (I gotta change my Diploma to Chinese first tho)
Although, I am contemplating instead taking:
- Introductory Microeconomics
- Japanese 4
- Chinese 2
This is depending on how my Japanese 3 grade went, as I was demotivated leading up to the exam, after losing 20 marks on my last two assignments for not meeting the requirements, (which is absolutely my fault, just kinda sucks), and had my subject grade fall by 5%.
For now, I shall see where everything leads me to. Signing off for now!