Olivia's Opinions

What career should you be pursuing? Who will you be dating in 2018? Who is your celebrity soulmate? Based on your personality where should you be living? We all know and love the Facebook personality quizzes. They are there to give us entertainment and to make us feel (mostly) good about ourselves. There are always those exceptions that you don’t get the results you want, but no one takes THOSE seriously so that’s whatever. These quizzes [supposedly] to take your answers and calculate, depending on each one, give you the most accurate response, right? WRONG! These quizzes are the same as the quizzes in Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and other women’s and children’s magazines. How do those work? You’re asked questions and given answers (a, b, c, d) that usually don’t reflect your personality at all but you convince yourself otherwise; then at the end of the quiz you are given a key that says “If you answered mostly a’s…” “If you answered mostly B's…” and so on. The Facebook quizzes are ex...

Here at ONU you have the opportunity to pursue anything you want. I chose to pursue advertising design. It is a great program and I love it. I love the classes, I love the professors, I love my fellow students, but I'm just not sure where the advertising comes into the advertising design program. Mostly there have been art classes and general education courses and that is to be expected, but I was hoping for a broader view of what I would be doing business wise in the advertising world. I've decided to pursue public relations to get this broader view, but I don't know if I should add it as a second major, or if I should just go for the minor? On 1 hand, the major would give me another degree entirely, on top of my advertising design degree. 2 degrees is a good thing right? Most people get by with the 1 and make a life in a career that is in their desired field (sometimes even that doesn't happen and they're left at a job they hate.) With 2 degrees (one being adve...