I am originally from Salt Lake City, but I spent a lot of time out of the country as a child because my mother did medical research. I always found my way back to Salt Lake City, but I've lived in places like India, Tanzania, Kenya and Turkey. As for things I like to do for fun, I spend most my time on philosophy but when I don't have to be working on that, I like movies, spending time outside and social events.

The major is 36 credits. Of those 36 credits, you have three classes in three areas. That's going to be three classes in Values and Ethics, three classes in Epistemology and Metaphysics and three classes in History of Philosophy. On top of that, you need to take a course in Logic, which can either be Deductive or Inductive, and a senior seminar. Overall, it will need some amount of time put into it. The best part about the Philosophy major is how flexible it is. Beside the senior seminar and the Logic course, there's no requirement for which classes you have to put in those slots for those areas. It's a major where how much you put in is how much you get out of it. If you want to take the hardest classes that you can and really invest yourself into it, you're going to be challenged and it's going to be very rewarding for you. But if you're going to do a double major and you can't invest all of your resources into Philosophy, they're going to have options for you to fill out those courses which are still going to be valuable but won't eat up all of your time. The workload is going to depend on what you want to take on.

I picked Philosophy as my major in my first semester here at the university. I, pretty much, knew in high school that I wanted to do Philosophy. I had originally planned to do a double major in Computer Science and Philosophy. Within about two weeks, I was taking Ethics and Inductive Logic. With that, alongside my intro to Computer Science Course, I saw immediately that Philosophy was the thing that I wanted to do more than anything else. I dropped the Computer Science class almost immediately and fully focused on Philosophy. Those two classes that I originally took, Ethics and Inductive Logic, were such diverse classes and so very separate from each other that it really showed me the broad range of subjects that the Philosophy major had to offer. That told me the thing I wanted to do, and I haven't regretted it since.