A letter to my younger self

Dear Steve
I am writing this letter to you to provide you with some advice about the course and subjects you intend to take, with the hope that you can take my advice and be well prepared for what you are about to face.


My first and most serious piece of advice to you is this: Play your strengths. The level of work that is expected from you at University is much higher than what was expected from you at high school. Your skills in the academic field are more focused on the writing, speaking and language side of academics, so don't go and try do something like economics or accounting because you will probably end up failing dismally. My second piece of advice to you is to not concentrate all your efforts on certain subjects and completely ignore the rest of them. Do you remember when you were in high school? You got awesome marks in Drama, English and History, and you used those good marks to make up for your abysmal Biology and Maths marks. You cannot use certain subjects to alleviate you from the responsibility that you have for other subjects so do not do it, because the University system works on credits, and you have to get a credit for each subject instead of trying to make up for bad marks with good ones, therefore you have to pick subjects that you will be able to do well in or else you probably will fail and waste a ton of money.


So, drawing all of this in mind, the subjects that I suggest that you take are these; Law (because you have always loved arguing and you are not afraid of public speaking), Journalism (because you love writing and have always had aspirations to be a Journalist), History (because you got good marks in it in high school and you need to play your strengths), and Linguistics (for similar reasons to history). Bear in mind that the Law/Journalism combination is pretty hectic so you will have to work hard.

I hope you take my advice and make the best decisions.

Regards

Stephen