University of Georgia Speciality : History
programme: History

While I was at the University of Georgia, I originally set out to either get a degree in psychology or peruse the path to vet school. In my first semester I signed up for a class in museum studies. I wasn’t entirely sure what this would entail, but it sounded interesting and I’ve always loved history and museums. I found the class super fun, and through taking it I learned that my professor ran the school’s museum study certificate program. After that, I was completely hooked on the idea of perusing a museum related career and changed my major to history and started working to get the certificate. All the museum classes were pretty fun and engaging, my favorite was “American Material Culture” that covered a bunch of different items, kinds of furniture, and clothes that American’s made over the years. My favorite day of class was when we learned about the history of Jell-O. All in all, I loved the program. It had its ups and downs as every part of college tends to have, but it helped open my mind to the kinds of things I could do with a degree in a subject I actually loved instead of just getting something that felt like it would get me through life.