Imagine you're 5 again and after completing your first day of Kindergarten your parents decide to take you to an ice cream shop. You walk through the doors and are overwhelmed with all the sights you see, all the creamy smells, and all the free samples.

That's exactly how I have felt this semester of college. I was overwhelmed with all the choices I was making, between picking housing, finding roommates, and being extremely busy. I felt lost and confused with why I was here. My classes were good but only a few interested me and I started to feel very Vanilla, kinda like I was just going through the motions trying to get to my next weekend home.

I Hated Living Like That

I felt I wasn't living the life I had left home to live. So I decided to make a DRASTIC CHANGE I decided to leave the College of Business. Now growing up I always thought that I would be a business major. I had always assumed I would work a day job and spend my evenings relaxing with work friends in big city studio apartment, because you know that's what I thought business was.

So back in the good old days of elementary and middles school, I made a plan for myself. I was going to go to high school, join DECA, compete at DECA State, become Queen of the world of business, then go to college and live out my dream of being a business major.

I Was Wrong... Partially

I did go to high school, I did join DECA, I did go to DECA State. I didn't become the Queen of the business world, but I did start of college as a business major. But, then I started noticing all these little signs. Like how I didn't enjoy the business classes I was taking, how I wasn't excited about the classes I'd be taking in the future, how I started thinking about where I would go after college. (Law School, a Master's in something else) I never thought about actually working in business, or at a company. I always thought about ways that I could make this degree work, not ways that I enjoyed this degree.

And that's when I realized I needed to make a change. For me coming to realize and accept the fact that I was changing my dream was extremely difficult and emotionally draining, but then I received some advice.

" You won't enjoy all the classes that you are taking, but you need to know that those classes will get you to where you want to be." - My Sister

Those words sat with me until I realized the deep truth behind them. College isn't supposed to be easy, but it is supposed to get us to where we want to be, and for me business did not have my whole heart.

We need to do things in life that will make us happy and enjoy what we are doing, we need to find the happiness in studying for hours on end. We need to find the joy of sitting through a night class. And for me, I feel that joy will be from being a History-Education major.

For others that joy will come from being a business major, a science major, an arts major, or whatever you choose to do.

All I ask is that you do what I did and make yourself happy.