Owens, who is a senior in environmental science, decided to minor in English as well in order to incorporate her love of reading into her studies. She can often be found reading between classes or in one her favorite bookstores in her spare time.
“Just because my career focus is in the sciences doesn’t
mean I can’t enjoy reading for fun in my spare time.”
Throughout her years as a student, she has discovered that
less and less people enjoy reading while her love for it has only grown. People
often wonder why she reads so much, especially when her main focus in college
is to get her degree in a field that has nothing to do with reading fiction for
fun.
“I’ve always thought she should be an English major or an
English teacher,” said her mother, Sharon Owens.
In high school, Meredith Owens
excelled in all of her English classes. But she didn’t read as much as she
started to when she got into college. Back then, she would spend her spare time
watching television or a movie from her vast collection of DVDs. Then the trend
of book to movie adaptations began, and she started to enjoy reading
recreationally again around her senior year of high school.
“I really did not want to major
in English, though,” Owens said. “I did not think there would be that big of a
range of jobs in that field once I graduated, and I really didn’t want to
teach. I just wanted to be more marketable. That’s why I chose an environmental
science major over an English major. But at least I’m minoring English. That
way I can have the best of both worlds.”
She hopes to one day become an
environmental journalist or work in the field. As long as she leaves the world
a better place than when she came into it.
But no matter where her career
takes her, though, she will always try to find time to escape in a good book.
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