Major Open Houses, THE FUTURE AHH!

Last week, sophomores received fat envelopes full of OUR FUTURES. Don’t worry, you’re not alone in your acute FUTURE anxiety. If you shoved all those papers away somewhere so they wouldn’t keep mocking your lack of resolve about THE FUTURE, this is the post for you!

If you are flipping out about YOUR FUTURE, which is due on March 7th (three weeks away AHH!), each academic department has cared enough to try and chill you out a little by providing Open Houses this week and next where you can meet faculty members and current majors and learn more about your prospective major program while enjoying refreshments ranging from juice and cookies to full pizza lunches, depending probably on how stingy/well-funded your department of interest is (I kid, I kid, Art Studio, Anthropology, and others serving “light refreshments”).

Sophomores and interested freshmen are free to attend as many as you think you’re interested in, though you should probably be more interested in figuring out YOUR FUTURE than trying to eat free pizza for two weeks straight.

Seriously though, if you (sophomores) don’t have your shit together concerning your major yet, you should really do your homework over the next two weeks so you don’t have a total nervous breakdown when you actually need to deal with it later. Explore the Major Declaration Website for exhaustive information about the whole process, and the Major/Department Websites for specific information about whatever majors you’re considering.

You can handle YOUR FUTURE, just get on it.

Here is the full Open House Schedule. Sorry if the department you’re interested in has already had their Open House – we would’ve posted earlier but really, you should’ve been on top of it you slacker, you.

Here is the full list in this format:
MAJOR
Department/Program Chair
Date & Time
How Much Food?
Location

African American Studies
Gayle Pemberton
Tuesday February 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Light Refreshments
CAAS Lounge, 343 High Street

American Studies
Claire Potter
Monday, February 18, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Center for the Americas, 255 High Street

Anthropology
Elizabeth Traube
Monday, February 18, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Light Refreshments
Anthropology Department, Anth 6 Classroom, 281 High Street

Archaeology
Clark Maines
Tuesday, February 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch – please RSVP dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu
Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street,Room 200

Art History
Phillip Wagoner
Monday, February 18, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Refreshments
Davison Art Center, Dining Room

Art Studio
Phillip Wagoner & Tula Telfair(Director)
Tuesday, February 19, 4:00 p.m.
Refreshments
Zilkha Gallery, Room 202

Biology
Janice Naegele
Wednesday, February 20, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza and Salad Lunch
Exley Science Center, Woodhead Lounge

Chemistry
Philip Bolton
Tuesday, February 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Exley Science Center, Woodhead Lounge

Classics/Classical Civilization
Michael Roberts
Thursday, February 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch – please RSVP dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu
Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Room 200

Computer Science
Karen Collins
Monday, February 25, 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
601 Exley Science Center, Math Lounge

Dance
Pedro Alejandro
Tuesday, February 19, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
CFA Dance and Theater Bldg, East Room

Earth and Environmental Science
Johan Varekamp
Wednesday February 20, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
405 Exley Science Center

East Asian Studies
Vera Schwarcz
Wednesday, February 27, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Pizza
343 Washington Terrace, Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies

Economics/Math-Econ
Richard Grossman
Monday, February 25, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
CSS Lounge, 4th Floor PAC

English
Ann DuCille
Monday, February 25, 4:00-5:30 p.m.
Refreshments
Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Room 200

Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Lori Gruen
Monday, February 25, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Room 200

Government
Russell Murphy
Tuesday, February 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
PAC 004

History
William Johnston
Tuesday, February 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
CSS Lounge, 4th Floor PAC

Latin American Studies
James McGuire
Thursday, February 21, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
Center for the Americas, 255 High Street, Rooms 1 and 2

Mathematics
Karen Collins
Monday, February 25, 12:00-12:50 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
601 Exley Science Center, Math Lounge

Medieval Studies
Jeff Rider
Monday, February 18, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch – please RSVP dsierpinski@wesleyan.edu
Downey House Lounge, 294 High Street, Room 200

Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Ishita Mukerji
Wednesday, February 27, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Exley Science Center, Woodhead Lounge

Music
Mark Slobin
Monday, February 18, 4:15-5:15 p.m.
Pizza and Refreshments
Music Studios Lobby

Neuroscience and Behavior
John Kirn
Tuesday, February 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Exley Science Center, Woodhead Lounge

Philosophy
Stephen Angle
Thursday, February 28, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Pizza
Russell House
Library/Seminar Rm, 2nd Floor

Physics
Reinhold Blümel
Tuesday, February 26, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
255 Exley Science Center (Physics Cady Lounge)

Psychology
Ruth Striegel-Moore
Wednesday, February 20, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
Judd Hall, Room 103

Religion
Elizabeth McAlister
Thursday, February 21, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
Religious Studies Seminar Room, 171 Church Street

Romance Studies/French Studies/Italian Studies/Spanish/Iberian Studies
Robert Conn
Wednesday, February 20, 4:15-6:15 p.m.
Refreshments
Common Room, RL&L, 300 High Street

Russian and East European Studies/Russian Language and Literature
Duffield White
Friday, February 22, 12-1 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
Fisk Hall, Room 215

Science in Society
Joseph Rouse
Thursday, February 21, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
Exley Science Center, Woodhead Lounge

Sociology
Alex Dupuy
Thursday, February 28, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Pizza Lunch
107 PAC

Theater
John Carr
Thursday, February 28, 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Refreshments
Theater & Dance Studios, Jones Room

Edit: Clarification – this post is intended for sophomores, but interested freshmen are welcome to attend the Open Houses as well.
Edit Russian Department open house time corrected. -Sagotsky