Carving Out My Own Trail

This guy is carving out his own path. With a machete, in the Jungle. This is how I feel sometimes.

When asked, "what do you want to do?" The answer is simple. I want to coach Track and/or Cross-Country collegiality and/or post-collegiality and I want to be a personal trainer.

Cross-Country at its finest

Most people that I tell this are surprised, some ask "why are you in college?" The answer to that is obvious, to coach at a high level you need a higher degree, to be precise, you need at least a masters degree. So then comes the tricky question, "how do you get there?"

There is no prescribed degree to coach. Here at Drury the Cross-Country Coach has a degree in law. However, the closest thing to a true degree in coaching is exercise physiology. Thus my major in Exercise Science and my two specializations in Exercise Physiology and Sports Management. My plan is three-fold: the most important part is get a bachelor's degree and admittance to a graduate school,

my special program in Exercise Physiology will allow me the knowledge that I need to understand the human body and its responses to different stimulus,

while my special program in Sports Management will teach me how to manage a team's expenses, recruiting, ect.

Here's me managing.

Doing both special programs leaves me at around 70-80 hours, so about a double major, maybe a major in a half. So when I went to the Majors/Minors Fair I was looking for a minor. I looked at minors that contained a lot of humanities like Middle East Studies, Philosophy, or Religion, because

 A) I have two departments to work with (Breech and the Exercise Science department) therefore I need to get in as many program/major specific classes as possible, as soon as possible, therefore I'll be getting a lot of gen. eds in at the end of my college career rather than in the beginning. So I want to look at a minor that contains a lot of classes that satisfy gen. ed requirements.

B)  I would enjoy studying any one of those subjects.

Here's me thinking, or philosophizing, or something. I  don't really picture me doing this naked, but if its a requirement, I'm cool with that.

 At the fair I learned that there is a global studies class that is specific to Middle East Studies, so I'll probably take that class. I also learned that the honors program has one required class and the rest are classes that you designate as honors classes, that is if you can get into the honors program to start with, as you need a letter of recommendation and there is an interview (I think I can get in).

I'm excited about about what the future holds. And with my plans, I believe I'll be prepared for it.