A Letter To Graduating High School Seniors
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A Letter To Graduating High School Seniors

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A Letter To Graduating High School Seniors
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Everything is happening so fast. You realize that you're playing in your last game or singing in your last concert with peers you grew up with since you were 5, and it's all so sad that the era is over. On top of all these emotions, you have to think about the future with everyone asking you the same questions. "Where are you going to school?" " What are you going to major in?" "What kind of career do you want?" But, you're also asking yourself these questions.

I've been living on this planet for two decades now, about to finish my second year of college, and I can honestly say that you never know where life is going to take you. You think you're right where you need to be and then all of a sudden, you're somewhere else.

When I was very young, maybe five or so, I was fascinated by dinosaurs and told everyone that I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up. I imagined myself spending my life digging up fossils and putting them in museums for everyone to see.

Then I got a little older, and I wanted to play professional baseball. I had played ever since I was three years old, and I loved the game so much that I wanted it to my career. The numbers of how few guys actually went pro didn’t scare me. Then I got to high school and realized that I'm not so good at baseball. At least, not as good as the best high school players.

During my sophomore year of high school, I took an intro to engineering class and decided that I wanted to be an engineer. I wasn't sure what branch, but that was the fit for me. Then I discovered roller coasters and how much joy they bring to me, so I wanted to design them. Well, last semester I was taking engineering classes and realized that 1) engineering is really hard and 2) I didn't like what I was doing.

Now I'm a marketing major and minoring in fashion and retail studies looking to get into the fashion world after college.

I sat in on a seminar for one of my classes this semester, and this guy was talking to us about how he went to school for accounting, and he was a tax accountant after school. He realized that he didn't want to do that and now, he's the CEO of Designer Shoe Warehouse.

So, it's perfectly okay to not know what you want to do with the rest of your life right this second, and it's okay to take some time to figure it out. Everything happens for a reason, whether you know why or not. You just have to be patient because sooner or later, you will end up where you need to be.

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