Ok, my unsolicited advice is: 1. Drop BB. You can take it if it's offered some time when you're less crazy-busy (I'll even take it with you, yay!)
2. Don't worry so much about focusing too much on one thing. English is what you're interested in; you're a sophomore planning to major in English, so of course you're taking lots of English courses. Do you really think you're going to find something you'd rather study than English? And it's not like 2-3 classes on the Romantics or the Victorian era are going to make you an expert on those subjects; you're not just repeating the same material. The gen. ed. requirements are designed to make you well-rounded whether you want to be or not, so no worries there; you're taking Astro, after all. Then your major reqs will help you with the "specific kind of English" problem by forcing you to take Chaucer, etc.
Also, btw, I wouldn't say that keeping BB is exactly branching off from your English fixation. That's like if Marissa took just human genetics courses for years and then "branched out" by taking a plant reproduction course. Comp Lit = English Lit + translation problems, and in BB, we were looking at all the works in English anyway. Just suck it up and admit you don't want to take any classes that aren't about analyzing literature. Quit giving me a hard time about my East Asian focus when you're the same way and so~ totally~ jeal-jeal of how I've embraced it. XD XD XD
3. Once you drop BB, you'll have four classes and while that's difficult when three of them have a ton of reading and one of them is fucking Astronomy, it's doable. And, bonus, exactly zero (0) of those classes are Asian languages! Yay!
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Ok, my unsolicited advice is:
1. Drop BB. You can take it if it's offered some time when you're less crazy-busy (I'll even take it with you, yay!)
2. Don't worry so much about focusing too much on one thing. English is what you're interested in; you're a sophomore planning to major in English, so of course you're taking lots of English courses. Do you really think you're going to find something you'd rather study than English? And it's not like 2-3 classes on the Romantics or the Victorian era are going to make you an expert on those subjects; you're not just repeating the same material. The gen. ed. requirements are designed to make you well-rounded whether you want to be or not, so no worries there; you're taking Astro, after all. Then your major reqs will help you with the "specific kind of English" problem by forcing you to take Chaucer, etc.
Also, btw, I wouldn't say that keeping BB is exactly branching off from your English fixation. That's like if Marissa took just human genetics courses for years and then "branched out" by taking a plant reproduction course. Comp Lit = English Lit + translation problems, and in BB, we were looking at all the works in English anyway. Just suck it up and admit you don't want to take any classes that aren't about analyzing literature. Quit giving me a hard time about my East Asian focus when you're the same way and so~ totally~ jeal-jeal of how I've embraced it. XD XD XD
3. Once you drop BB, you'll have four classes and while that's difficult when three of them have a ton of reading and one of them is fucking Astronomy, it's doable. And, bonus, exactly zero (0) of those classes are Asian languages! Yay!