The moment you started to speak is the moment people started to ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Oh, the plethora of possibilities there was. I wanted to be a crime fighting, lawyer/doctor princess (yes, all at once). I slowly had to dock those fantasies off. As I grew into adolescence, laywer/doctor stuck. High school rolled around and I wanted to be a cardiothoracic surgeon, (I know, dream big). I was all about it though; I took an internship at a hospital by my high school and also did athletic training. Then college came, as did the question that would determine my college career: "What will you major in?" At first, I was thinking biology with a premed focus, then switched to kinesiology, then to marketing and then finally to advertising. It's not that I didn't think I could go on with premed, but why would I, if I realized I didn't want that for myself anymore? I have changed since high school and so have my goals. It's not wrong to act on them, and we don't all have the same plan as we did when we "WrOte liKe Dis." If you do, take a shot for me because I sure didn't. Either way, majors were meant to be changed so don't feel like a failure or behind because that's just college.

We are learning new things about ourselves on the daily and change our minds like we change our clothes.

We realize some classes are not what we thought they were.

We realize how far we can push ourselves and in what.

We realize we're going to have to pay this off somehow, so maybe majoring in Latin won't get us all there. (Points if it does).

We stop listening to solely our parents and start listening to ourselves and what we want.

We figure out we will be happier overall if we do something we actually enjoy doing.

We figure out our strengths and weaknesses and start to use them to our advantage.

We stop doubting ourselves and push ourselves more when we're doing something we'll enjoy.

We realize that even if our majors don't exactly set us up for our dream careers, we can still work hard to get there.

We start to find that the weight of school seems lighter when we don't dread our classes.

We realize maybe in high school that we really didn't know what she was getting herself into when she thought cardiothoracic surgeon.

We find that, while we feel like we let ourselves down by switching paths, we actually did ourselves a favor and won't regret it in the future.

We get to change our majors; it's a part of college, at least it was for me. I have never been happier and more in charge of what I want to really do when I grow up. My parents resented my decision for a little bit, but after they saw how much better I was doing, it was a thing of the past. Don't let anything stop you from becoming what you really want to be in life. It's harder to go back and change your career than it is to go to your counselor and change your major. Time is precious and you never want to look back on your college years, wishing you did something differently.