There are a ton of undergraduate programs that you can go into. The one that I chose is the famous Bachelor of Arts in speech-language pathology. I absolutely love it and I guarantee that my fellow speech majors say the same thing. There are easy times and many tough times, but with the knowledge and experience you gain from the program, you know of these aspects.
1. The start of the program is something beyond what you’ve ever learned.
2. While in your phonetics class, you are in the library making sounds to transcribe the word and people are telling you to be quiet.
3. Once you learn about voice, place, and manner, you can’t help but watch the tongue and jaw movements while talking to others.
4. You enter into the audiology classes and you start to question which side you want to go toward.
5. As you move further, you feel the need to highlight all of your notes because everything is important.
6. You're running around trying to contact offices for observations.
But you can't find any because it's like finding a needle in a hay stack.
7. The dreaded GRE.
We don't speak of that.
8. Then comes the application process and you want to cry every day.
9. Once you’re applying, you’re realizing that everyone else has started to you pretty much start to compete.
10. You see that envelope in the mail of your either acceptance or denial and you sit there with it in front of you for hours, not wanting to open it.
11. You open the envelope and you see an acceptance letter and you scream because your dream came true.
