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catback -- sound advice.
I guess I came off wrong with my 'plan'. For the first two years (4 semesters) I have focused my studies in Japanese language. Now for the last 4 semesters, I am going to FOCUS on economics. I had been taking japanese literature / culture courses in addition to some intro econonic stuff...I'm going to continue my japanese language training but i only have one more semester of 6 credit, 5 day a week classes left to take. After that it'll be a normal 3 credit class, but it will still be at a high level and I'll be doing things like reading books and newspapers.
So basically I'm going to just pull my japanese language learning back from it's breakneck pace. I'll be taking the hardest intensive class, an advanced intermediate level, spring of next year, in addition to accounting, labor economics, legal studies, and some other nasty courses.
What's really cool is I picked all the classes I wanted to take for the next 2 years, and by themselves they don't equal a major but I have been able to turn them into one. My school gives me a half difference discount between out of state and in state tuition because my home state college, UCONN, does not offer japanese as a major and umass does. So I talked to my japanese major advisor and they're allowing me to remain declared a Japanese major and receiving my tuition discount as long as I maintain some japanese language study class every semester. So then a month before I graduate I will turn around, re-declare for the major I designed two years ago, and voila.
Down the rabbit hole and into the real world =)
p.s. If my plan goes right I will not have to work for anybody, American Japanese or otherwise. Maybe my future customers, but that'll be it =)
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