This is a little bit easier as I would take a specific course/major in writing. The only thing I have about this is that I'm worried that if I become too stressed in the classes or start overthinking everything I'm learning, I might lose my passion for writing. I feel like once I enroll as an English major in college, writing may no longer be fun. I may even end up hating the idea of picking up a pen or pencil.
I have an English major but with the way I did mine, most of my courses were on analysing other texts and the writing from different periods. I did a total of 10 English courses and 8 were like that. One was on creative writing as a medium and another was on poetry. The rest were a mix of studying writers from the Renaissance, Shakespeare, a course on the writings, films and music from the 60s, and other courses I can't recall much of. LOTS of essay writing and close reading analysis of texts, less creative writing. I absolutely suck at reading novels so I relied on movie adaptations and cartoon adaptations of a lot of things, and never finished a single set text over the course of 3 years. Ugh.
But even after that, I still adore writing when I'm in the mood. I've always sorta hated essays - the style is great but referencing and the word count and quotations just... ugh.
Maybe look at the kind of classes you'd be taking. I find English and Creative Writing two very different things.
Also, keep in mind what kind of job you'd be looking to get out of an English major. Where I live, there really isn't a lot going for someone with an English major. It's a great gateway degree into other things (which is what I've used it for) but other than that, I don't think it could get me a job because jobs like that just aren't around very often, like editing and publishing. Not here, anyway.
But even after that, I still adore writing when I'm in the mood. I've always sorta hated essays - the style is great but referencing and the word count and quotations just... ugh.
Maybe look at the kind of classes you'd be taking. I find English and Creative Writing two very different things.
Also, keep in mind what kind of job you'd be looking to get out of an English major. Where I live, there really isn't a lot going for someone with an English major. It's a great gateway degree into other things (which is what I've used it for) but other than that, I don't think it could get me a job because jobs like that just aren't around very often, like editing and publishing. Not here, anyway.