Aspies For Freedom

After struggling in my chemistry class last semester, and in calculus and structural geology this semester, I finally changed my major.

Next semester, I will be transferring to Texas State University, in San Marcos, Texas--just south of Austin.  I will be majoring in geography, with an emphasis on urban planning.  I worked for nearly 5 years as a GIS technician, and I enjoyed it.  

My current university doesn't offer such a program.  In fact, Texas State is the only college in the whole state with an geography/urban planning program at the undergraduate level.  There are other universities that offer graduate programs, and some that offer undergraduate degrees in geography with teaching emphases.  

The next nearest university with a similar program is in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, about 150 miles northeast of New Orleans.

This is good news, Tim! Hill country is so lovely, and a bit more liberal. Besides, Urban Planning is a good field, particular if you emphasize sustainable development practices -- that's the future.

Good on you, Tim. I think you will be much more happy within yourself at making this change. I would have liked to study urban planning but courses were limited. It would be a very interesting field. I don't think I'd find chemistry and calculus very riveting.

Yeah, Texas State used to have a reputation for being a party school, not sure if it's still like that.  That was back in the 1970s, though.

I don't really want to associate with partiers, or hipsters, though.

Where are the hard grind study schools where people shut up and study?

Not on this planet anyway, Guess...

And a good thing too - they would be so incredibly boring! Mind you, I'm certainly not a fan of endless partying but all work and no play makes Jack or Jane very dull people. You're only young once and there is fun to be had that doesn't involve excessive consumption of alchohol or getting bombed out on illegal substances.