btw here's a PSA for anyone who currently deciding on a major and getting talked out of what they find interesting, because it may end up being useless: My ling/anthro/int'l studies (focus: U.S.-Mexico border and LatAm) undergrad degree is proving extremely useful right now.

ditto for my almost-a-master's (my thesis was on identity, migration, and music and it's obsolete as of ~2016, so I have to start it over again), which was in LatAm history with emphasis on the U.S.-Mexico border and modern Bolivian politics with heavy emphasis on decolonization.

until this year it was simply due to my own interests - I put myself through college in my twenties and thirties - and I thought I might be able to specialize in humanitarian and postcolonial journalism around the border and write dense textbooks that no one read.