Correct me if I'm wrong, but at the age of nineteen, there is so much life going on around you that it can be hard to handle. You've got those younger than you, maybe still in high school, still enjoying their freedom from real responsibilities and then you've got your older friends and siblings who have graduated college, they have a stable job and live completely on their own. So, where do you fit in?
College is hard for everyone. Freshman year, you're just getting started. You're having fun, you fit school in there somewhere, but for the most part, you're trying to just make new friends and make sure your dorm room doesn't look like the bottom of a trash shoot. Junior year, you have already declared your major and you're no longer an underclassman. You at least kind of have your life a little figured out by now. Then senior year, you're the big man on campus. You know what you're doing (mostly), and you know what direction you want to head in.
What about the sophomore year? You don't need your major declared until the end of the year so there's a good chance you still don't have any clue what you're going to do. You're probably not living in a dorm so that means you're completely on your own for the first time. It now seems like you have all of these responsibilities and worries being shoved in your face. That's fine, right?
It's a bit intimidating to look around and see people your age getting jobs, internships, and life opportunities already.
That is OK! It's just as normal, if not, more normal, to not have a clue what is going on in life right now. This is the time to not have it all figured out.
Try out some random classes, see if you like them. Join some obscure clubs, at the very least, you'll make new friends. Expose yourself to new experiences! Go to some meetings on how to nail an interview even if you don't know what you want to interview for. Just because you don't know what you want to interview for yet doesn't mean you can't be prepared for when you do.
Taking little steps to not only prepare for the future but to ensure that you're enjoying life now is just as important as those big steps like knowing exactly what you want to do for the rest of your life.
It's better to end up with a career and a life you're happy with than to jump into something just because you feel like you're falling behind.
There is no age set for having your life together so why try and set one?
For now, work on yourself and have fun with the life you have at the moment. The rest of life will fall into place eventually. That time does not have to be right now.
