Coming to college and not knowing what you want to do with the rest of your life is a horrifying feeling. We are expected to know what we want for our futures at the tender age of 17-years-old when we start applying to schools. Some people have their entire lives planned out by their senior year of high school, other people (like myself) are not that lucky.

I entered college as an equine management major and by the second day of class, I changed my major to hospitality. I then spent all of my freshman and sophomore years of college totally confused and in limbo about my major. I thought hospitality was a good thing for me, but I slowly figured out that maybe it was not.

By the spring semester of my sophomore year, I started to realize how unhappy I was with my major. I had yet to have any actual hospitality experience and began to understand that soon I would start falling behind in the requirements needed for the major. I thought about my future and about my life now and why I had not reached out and tried to get a job within the hospitality industry. It was because I simply was not passionate about hospitality. I was not interested in the job options within hospitality and therefore was not pushing myself to pursue a career in that field.

I thought about my strong points and realized that the things I was best at were writing and math. Math is my least favorite subject, but for the most part it comes easy to me. However, I am more interested in enjoying my job than doing what will make me the most money. Then, all of a sudden, it hit me: the best fit for me is a major that relies on writing. I love to travel, so I decided majoring in journalism and becoming a travel journalist is my dream job. Here I was, an (almost) junior in college, and just now realizing what I absolutely want to do with my life.

I was embarrassed to be changing my major so far into my college career. I worried all summer about having to be the only junior in a (mostly) freshman class. I worried my friends would give me a hard time for starting over. The thing is, it did not make sense for me to worry. People change their majors all of the time. Plus, I had taken so many different classes over the past two years that I am only going to be graduating a semester late. I figure that since I am making decisions now that will effect the rest of my life, this really is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things.

You might be wondering why I just shared my entire college story with you all, but there is a point here. I want to call out to all of you incoming freshmen and students that are currently in college, but feel lost and still do not know what the future has in store for them, that it is okay! Find your way, follow your passion, and it will all turn out all right in the end.

Take a breather and do not rush yourself. You will figure out what you want to do with your life in due time. If you change your major twice or three times or maybe more than five times, it really is okay. You need to do whatever you need to do to figure out what is going to make you happy in life. You may have friends who give you a hard time for changing your major so much, but do not let them get you down.

We all have our own way of figuring our futures out. One day when you are in your dream job thanks to your perfect major that you took the time to figure out, you will be laughing at them in their mediocre boring desk jobs. Okay, so maybe some of them will be extremely successful, but what are the chances they enjoy what they do when they rushed into their futures?!