In my senior year here at school, I have been blessed to learn so much in just this past year than I have my entire career at school. But the learning I have done this year has been much more than out of the books. I have been blessed with multiple learning experiences, giving me the tools (hopefully) I will need in my very near future.

The phrase "senior year" has always scared me from freshman year of high school until now. At least in high school, I knew it wasn't really over after that last walk across the football field. I knew I was going to college and I knew where I would be for the next four years. It was a comforting senior year. Fast-forward to now, finishing school a year early I have been pushed to find where I want to be in the world. This time around "senior year" really means "end of it all" and "better get it together."

It's not that I don't have good work ethic, or that I got a liberal arts degree with no plan in mind, I have been declared since freshman year and actually ended up dual majoring (Global Studies and Political/Governmental Affairs) with a minor in business. I pretty much have wanted to do the same thing since I was 5 years old, you know after being an astronaut on planet Jupiter. However, when it came down to internships this year, I felt I was enjoying myself more with utilizing my minor than with my internship with a presidential campaign. Normally at this point someone would be upset and feel like they wasted their whole college career on something pointless, but I was the opposite. I felt enlightened to know that I had a passion, something that didn't feel like a "job" so much and was something I could see myself advancing in for the rest of my life.

Through figuring my career interests out, I was also able to create new friendships and connections that I may not have had the opportunity to do if I had not pursued my minor. Keep in mind; I only added the minor fall semester of my senior year, so you can say the school was a little skeptical if it could be pulled off, but I proved myself. The satisfaction of graduating in 3 years with two degrees and a minor is overwhelming and commencement hasn't even happened yet.

Basically what I am trying to say here to you the freshman undeclared, or to you the sophomore with a 1.0 who's thinking of dropping out, or even to you the junior who has a 4.0 thinking about switching their major...try something new, doesn't have to be a complete overhaul of your core classes. It could just be a new course offered by #theVIBE or you want to try a riding course at the Equine center.. JUST DO IT. Life is entirely too short to NOT make yourself happy.