"One of the reasons why I applied to America in the first place is I am not sure what I want to do. So the whole idea of this liberal arts education is it gives you breadth, they want you to take a course from eight different areas, you could even take a language before you end up specialising."
Statistics, psychology, history, science and government were among her shortlist though, she said.
She will pick a major next semester , she said.
Miss Dwight said it had been a huge blessing to have the opportunity to try different things out even if it also meant a heavy workload.
"There are some parts of the semester you feel like you are working every waking hour. It kind of gets tiring, but there are a lot of great people and good support there.
"But I have friends in New Zealand who have just finished their first year of law and they don't know if they like it yet. Or halfway through an engineering degree and they are not sure they want to be an engineer. It's a luxury to try things out and hopefully I will find something I love."
Getting her head around the different university lingo had been a challenge in the first few months, she said.
"It's concentration not a major and they do AB and SB degrees which is BAs and Bachelor of Sciences except Latin.
"They have their own words for everything but I am getting used to the weird vocab. Even with 'Kiwisms' and 'Americanisms', I say something like 'togs' and I get these blank looks."
University in the Northern Hemisphere now meant back-to-back winters for the next few years, she said.
"I think we had 107 inches of snow...it was a record-breaking winter for sure."
