gaaaaaaahhh

I'm in the awkward position where my university studies are both going well, while simultaneously falling down around my ears.

For context:

1. I am in a degree where I automatically will get into an Honours year (ie a year of research that's still technically undergrad) in my major, provided my grades stay above a certain average.
2. I originally planned/am currently doing a major in chemistry and a minor in Earth science.

I got my minor (and a bit extra) in Earth science last year by having a class load that was 50% chemistry and 50% Earth science. (Partially it was for scheduling reasons... partially because I do really quite like Earth science.)

But I got the minor, so this semester I was doing just chemistry, no more 'for fun' courses. It was kind of annoying that last year, I got better marks in my for-fun Earth science than my bread'n'butter chem, but whatever.

And of course, after enrolling, two things happened. One, I got the prize for being the best second year Earth science student (you know, my for fun minor. gaaahh. Two, I realised that if my performance in chemistry is similar to last year, and I'm not doing a bunch of Earth science courses that I'm weirdly good at, my grade average might be below the cut off to get the automatic Honours entry.

Welp.

Good news: provided that nothing stops me from taking classes next semester, no matter what happens, I will end up with a Bachelor degree in my hot little hands.

So, I'm now wondering if I should try to pivot to an Earth science major, considering I'm much better at it than chemistry, but which will be a bit awkward to do halfway through my third year of a 3+1 year degree.

My current plan is to wait for my grades, and do the math to see if I'm at risk of being below the grade average. If I am, I'm going to march off to the people who organise the science students doing courses and getting degrees and stuff, and ask them if there's anyway to salvage this; and if one of the salvage options is to possibly do an extra year, get a major in Earth science, and do Honours in Earth science. And then probably run back and forth between the Earth science people and the 'make sure the science undergrads get degrees' people, and see if smiling sweetly and pointing at my marks will get them to consider maybe not making me do first year physics and a different first year maths to get an Earth science major. (Seriously, the thing that makes a panicked switch to an Earth science awkward isn't getting enough Earth science classes, I've pretty much already done three quarters of an Earth science major already, the tricky thing is that they want you to do specific physics and maths classes to get that major-- which I didn't do in first year because I thought I was going to be a biologist.)

(...yeah, if I change my major, this will be the second time I've done it.)

(Any advice from people who have done this rodeo, or any similar rodeos, would be much appreciated. I'm fairly about the whole thing.)

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I had the thought 'I should go to a gay bar at some point. Seems like a rite of passage sorta thing.'

Then I worried: "How do bars work? I don't know how bars work? What if it's too loud? What if I'm painfully socially awkward and have no fun? What if people think I'm straight and yell at me?"

And it took me five minutes to get to the practical concern-- while in theory my city's one gay bar is accessible by public transport, it opens at 2100.

So, yeah. That's a roadblock.