For the past three years, I have been vying to get into a BPhil program because I believed that would be the best way to distinguish myself as a Global Health individual. People told that this program isn't what I am truly looking for, and I should try elsewhere. I ignored them thinking that the general discouragement was a statement on my abilities rather than on my goals. But now in my senior year, I am realizing they are right, a master's level thesis in undergrad is unnecessary to someone who has to go and complete a master's anyways, to someone who doesn't want a PhD anytime soon. I should've found another way to express my Global Health focus on paper.

So I've been thinking about how I could still make that distinctive research product I want and show that I am dedicated to global health work, and I realized that I could've designed my own major. My school has a self designed major option that I've never looked into that will award you a degree in a faculty approved self-created courseload. In the absence of a global health major I could've made my own, and in many ways I did that throughout the past four years in hopes of getting a BPhil. Now I want my degree to reflect that. I am currently on track to finish an already established major, but do you think I should petition to create - better yet "rename" - my major into something that suits my own purposes? Do you guys believe I am crazy to try this a semester before graduation? Should I expect crazy looks for asking this from an advisor?