Major... so close!

I was leaning a lot towards geology. Not decidedly so, but noteworthily so. I sign up for classes accordingly. Then after Environmental Biology the other day, I went up to ask the teacher a question, and then he asked if I'd decided on a major. I admit that I had not, and had meant to talk with him about an EnviroScience major all semester. He says he's got time right then, I say I do to, so we go tour the facilities and talk for a good hour. Now I'm torn again. Do I want to do geology and know what's in the earth, or environment and know what's on the earth? Then there's the factor of them both having relevant emphases, so it's sort of an issue of knowing both, but which should I know better.

The kicker is while they share a number of classes, they both require my taking an introductory class next semester, or find myself here for an extra year, just because of the way the classes are scheduled for certain terms and left out of others. Either way I have to take calculus, so that's four credits. The intro courses are both four credits, so that brings me to 8. If I do enviro, I have to take chemistry right away, and I have to do it for geology eventually, that's another 4 credits, so we're up to twelve before we even get to religion and guitar. If I'm taking three 4-credit classes, I'd like to know I'm taking the right ones, dang it!

And that's the way the cookie is crumbling right now. Updates as the story develops.