In August, I began my first semester of my junior year of college. Taking 17 hours, being VP of my business club, holding an officer position in my sorority, doing a work study, and somehow still maintaining a social life was a bit of a tough pill to swallow. It was a lot of stress to handle all at once. As I have began to really look at my life and be in tune with my own self I have learned a lot of things that I was unaware of before. I have started to live in accordance to how I want to live my life and find my own happiness. With that being stated, I realized that when I woke up and looked at my class schedule for the particular day, I hated the classes I was going to and ultimately just going through the motions. I decided that it was time to start enjoying college like everyone else and find my passion. This resulted in me changing my major.
All throughout my life I had followed closely in my dad's footsteps. Starting by playing tennis with him and trying to outrun and beat him in high school. Getting older I realized my dad was a successful businessman so when I went to college I figured I would major in business, so I did. It then began a friendly competition and a way of comparing notes of our business knowledge. I soon realized I was not as successful as my colleagues in this particular area. It just did not make much sense to me.
Progressing into my third year as a business student, I have taken every aptitude and personality test you could think of. My results clearly were not lining up with my major or other students in my major. I thought "well, what is wrong with me?" In actuality nothing, I was just "a fish trying to climb up a tree thinking I am stupid", a quote my boyfriend likes to often use. I was not where I needed to be to thrive in my scholastic life. I evaluated what would make me thrive and what I truly have a zest to learn about and that is about the human brain and how it controls our lives i.e. the study of Psychology. I knew changing my major from Business Management to Psychology would most likely not make my dad very happy. All I want to do is make my parents and family happy and proud of me, but I knew I needed to do this for my own happiness. The last 5 semesters have not gone to plan and school has never made me 'excited' in the slightest, but as I was signing up for my classes over the last few weeks I finally felt that 'excitement' everyone talks about. I could finally see myself thriving and enjoying what I was learning and eventually making the grades I know that I am fully capable of.
To make long story short, for the outside looking in people may question why I waited so late to change my major and they might say why didn't you just stick it out. That isn't the point, it is never too late for happiness and sometimes it takes a while to find out what that is.