Keeping Doors Open and Walking Through Them
Heading into subject selection for next year at school, I'm always getting told to "keep doors open". An example of this is doing a higher level of mathematics if you are thinking of doing any engineering adjacent things. But really I think the better way to think about this is opening doors to pathways based on your subjects. Because you probably aren't going to do too well in a science field I'd you took no science classes. And if you want to become a therapist then you should probably do psychology.
So then. What doors do I want to open? I'm going to run through the fields I have consistently been interested in.
- engineering and adjacent
- photography and art
- architecture and urban design
So to open the door to engineering. I will do a high level of math and I will do a science, whether that science is physics like they recommend or not is yet to be determined.
To really just keep the door open to photography and art I will continue doing art as a subject. Although ive heard its one of the hardest in my school because its actually just a critical thinking class thats prerequisite taught very little critical thinking.
Architecture and design. How so I open this door. an interesting thing to look at for this is what my local universities offer for these fields. Adelaide University has an entire section for Architecture and Design, where as Flinders University closest equivilent to it is a Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning.
In fact, neither of those have any prerequisits or assumed knowledge. so I think simply having the drive to be interested in urban design and to make change with it is going to be enough to keep that door open.
Who knew all you had to do to keep a door open is just walk through it?