Hi, my name is Karenna, and I am pleased to be serving as a Pitt Honors College Ambassador this academic year. I am a senior majoring in Political Science (International Relations) and English (Nonfiction Writing), minoring in Turkish, and pursuing certificates in Global and Eurasian Studies. I was born and raised in Fairfax, VA, where…
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Always Something to Do
Hello again!! Despite how much time you spend in classes in college, so much more of life happens outside of the classroom. Pitt offers so many types of activities and extracurriculars to get involved with, which allows you to pursue interests that may not be allotted for within the traditional classroom setting. Whatever I couldn’t…
Always Active
My life is run by what I do, so it was important to me that where I went to school had lots for me to do and learn. And not only does Pitt offer a diverse student body and wide range of courses and majors, it also offers a wide array of other activities to…
Getting Ahead of the Game
Hi again! One of the great things about Pitt Honors students is their natural curiosity. Almost everyone I’ve met through the UHC is interested in a multitude of subjects, but it makes picking a major difficult. Most people I know picked up a minor or second major, and some changed their major entirely! I was…
Process of Elimination?
Did you have friends in high school who a.) have always known exactly what they wanted to do or b.) thought they knew what they wanted to do and changed it every month? I was neither of those. I did not know what I wanted to study in college for the longest time and I was so…
Little of Everything
The first real struggle I had in my college career was deciding on a major; I had so many things that I wanted to try, that homing in on one specific major seemed daunting. I was interested in science, language, sociology, art, and history, and it felt impossible to work it all in. But in…
Honorable Mention
Hey everyone! My name is Alison Chilcott, I am a senior at Pitt and I’m from Hudson, Ohio (about 30 minutes outside of Cleveland). I am majoring in Biology and French, with minors in Chemistry and Sociology, and a Certificate on the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine. What I love about being a Pitt student is…
The Honor in Taking Honors Courses
Selecting the *perfect* major for me at Pitt was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever made. I entered my freshman year planning on majoring in Neuroscience and English Literature, but upon taking the introductory bio courses, I began to seriously reconsider my neuroscience major. Additionally, I took an introductory linguistics course and decided I…
To Help You Discover Your Plan
Starting at the University of Pittsburgh my first year, I thought I had it all figured out. I was going to apply my long love of the brain to a study of neuroscience. I knew I wanted to pursue medicine, but admittedly, my reasons at the time were unclear. I loved working with people and…
French culture, Theatre, Neuroscience and Honors courses
I came to Pitt knowing very little about majors or minors. I was the first from my family to study in the states for my undergraduate studies, so I did not exactly have any guidance like that either. However, my focus was Neuroscience and so that is what I decided to major in. It was…