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The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
5.0
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston • ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Read: 2/12 2024
✨ Review ✨
This was tied as my favorite book of the year. I related with Clementine so much (obviously not the time travel part - I wish).
This book, as weird as it may sound, was the last push I needed to switch my major. I was planning on going into Genetics, getting a PhD, and doing lab research, but I was never 100% set on it. The thing is, I was only interested in the genetics aspect, I hate everything else about biology and chemistry. I just wasn’t really interested in anything else and I hated the idea of having to switch majors after I already started because that just feels like a huge waste of money. I had taken a Criminology and a Forensic Science class during sophomore year and loved them, but my mom talked me out of pursuing that as a career because she said it was too morbid and didn’t make as much money.
I don’t want to hate my job for the rest of my life or be bored in it. This book helped me realize I need to do what I want to do. I switched to Criminal Justice, and I’m so happy I did. I don’t start until August, but I think I’ll be really happy with this choice. I’ve also been considering a double major in Psychology with a minor in Sociology, though I’ll wait until my classes to see if that would actually be important to my career at all. I took a Psych class through dual enrollment that I found interesting, but I’ve heard that you can’t really do much with a Psych degree, so we’ll see?
Read: 2/12 2024
✨ Review ✨
This was tied as my favorite book of the year. I related with Clementine so much (obviously not the time travel part - I wish).
This book, as weird as it may sound, was the last push I needed to switch my major. I was planning on going into Genetics, getting a PhD, and doing lab research, but I was never 100% set on it. The thing is, I was only interested in the genetics aspect, I hate everything else about biology and chemistry. I just wasn’t really interested in anything else and I hated the idea of having to switch majors after I already started because that just feels like a huge waste of money. I had taken a Criminology and a Forensic Science class during sophomore year and loved them, but my mom talked me out of pursuing that as a career because she said it was too morbid and didn’t make as much money.
I don’t want to hate my job for the rest of my life or be bored in it. This book helped me realize I need to do what I want to do. I switched to Criminal Justice, and I’m so happy I did. I don’t start until August, but I think I’ll be really happy with this choice. I’ve also been considering a double major in Psychology with a minor in Sociology, though I’ll wait until my classes to see if that would actually be important to my career at all. I took a Psych class through dual enrollment that I found interesting, but I’ve heard that you can’t really do much with a Psych degree, so we’ll see?