I’m currently at Emory University on a track for a sociology major, and being on summer vacation has left me lots of time to think. Sometimes this is bad, but often it seems productive, right now for example. I’m reconsidering my current academic path. Over the past several years I’ve taken a burgeoning interest in nutrition and the human body, often bordering on and sometimes crossing into insanity for a few people I know.
The subject is just absolutely fascinating to me, though for the most part has been relegated to the back of my mind and treated as a hobby. That was, at least, until I began thinking about things on a slightly more long term level.
First of all, I’ve been wondering what I could do with Sociology. I don’t want to be a social worker, no thanks. I could be a professor, but ultimately I think that would result in the untimely death of a few youthful members of society. So at dinner tonight with my mom, she suddenly and out of nowhere looked at me and said “You know, I don’t know if this whole nutrition and exercise thing might not be the right thing for you.”
I just sat there for a minute, and thought it over. This was perhaps the first time that one of my interests has turned into something that could be a career. I like this, I enjoy doing it. I spend countless hours reading about it and the subject never tires me. I screw with my macronutrient ratios and exercise times and even with nutrient timing. Hell, I’m only 19, but this is damn fun.
So what’s to say maybe I shouldn’t look into this a bit more? Maybe analyzing social circumstances for deeper trends isn’t exactly the best choice of careers for someone who would rather read about the effects of Omega-3s influencing metabolism than how the 60s changed America.
Unfortunately, Emory doesn’t have anything in this area. Anything. I asked my advisor about it, and she simply said that if I want to do that I need to transfer, because it will not happen at Emory. So damn.
I’m about to start another year, and I can knock out a few more courses with no problem for general studies but really, I need to be thinking about what I’m going to do after that.
So I ask the great sages of T-Nation and the readers, how do you at least begin on the path to this? Where do you go to learn, how do you know what programs are good and what programs teach hot button issues of 1970? I think I want to get into this game, I’ve never had as much fun learning about something in my life.