-: Regardless of the major,
I would say a solid liberal arts background.
I was really shocked that I ended up in English
because I would have told you English, no, I hate English.
And I knew that I was this compulsive reader.
I just didn't care for English class.
And the reason I mention that to you
is that the liberal arts background,
is it gives you that broad based background
in all the disciplines
so that you have an opportunity
to choose your own strengths.
Then once you identify that strength
you wanna focus in and you wanna be conscious
from about the time you're a sophomore on,
that you need Bs or better in all your classes.
Here at Millersville it was very important
that I had a mentor, a young English professor
who took me under his wing and kind of showed me
what the academic profession looked like
and clarified for me what the requirements were,
what the expectations were.
You wanna find those things out early,
and by early I mean sophomore year.
Freshman year you just wanna get through it.