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Life Isn't Always According To Plan

I'm in my junior year and changing my future goals.

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Life Isn't Always According To Plan
Dark Wench

Everyone knows the quote by Frost about the paths in the woods, but what Frost fails to tell us about those paths is what happens when you are halfway down one and change your mind?

Planning has always been such a huge part of my life. Whether it is short-term, like up-coming assignments, or long-term with a five-year plan, I am on top of it. That was until I realized I was not actually happy with where my life was going.

From high school until now, I thought I knew what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I was going to do research in neuroscience. The way to get there has changed a little over the years with some adjustments to my major and minor order, but the end goal had always stayed the same. That is until last week though.

I was sitting in my organic chemistry class lost as always and contemplating life. In that moment, I realized this has nothing to do with what I actually want to do. I had been so focused on that end goal of getting my Ph.D that I had lost sight of what actually made me happy. In my college career, I have committed myself to varieties of service, so why not commit my life to helping others? Long story short, that afternoon I dropped out of my chemistry class.

I might be in heading in to my senior year, but that doesn't mean I have my life together. I am beginning to reconstruct my life plan because that is how I am. In that plan, it includes me being happy and helping others. The details are TBD, but hey, that's just how life needs to be sometimes.

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