My heart beats rapidly in my chest as the reality of what I just did sinks in.
I have yet again changed my schedule.
I’ll have to introduce myself to my classmates again. Oh how I love icebreakers; which one will it be this time? Two truths and a lie, connection, or just the basic name and major situation. While everyone had their first day earlier this week I am having mine this week, again.
Why do you ask? My name is Adrianna Laforest and as of six days ago my junior year was flipped completely upside down. I was originally a Sociology major but due to insufficient credits and issues with prerequisites I was told by my advisor and the chair of the sociology and anthropology department, that it would be in my best benefit to switch my major so that I could graduate on time, Spring 2017.
A mess I know. My new major is Social Science with a primary focus in American Studies and a Secondary Focus in Sociology with a double minor in Gender Studies and Business Law and I am also on the Pre-Law Track. (Yeah, it's a mouthful.) Am I interested in American Studies? Not really to be quite frank. But I believe that it was the best choice based off of the options presented to me. I had to choose between seven other majors including philosophy, political science, anthropology, and whole lot more that I was not interested in at all.
The only thing I can think of to describe my change of major is having a mid-life crisis. You know when 50-year-old men sell their mini vans in exchange for a corvette or motorcycle? But instead of swapping out a car I swapped out my life plans.
So a mid-college life crisis. I completely changed my focus and now I am at a point where I am unsure about what I want to do. I came to school this semester determined to succeed and do better than I have done in the past semesters. I just neglected to realize that every bad mistake I have ever made in my academic career would come back to haunt me. Though I am still unsure about my passion for this new very complicated major I figure in time it will come. Like all things I do, I may not like it right away but I will teach myself to love it because if I don’t do that then these remaining three semesters will be extremely rough for me.
College after all is all about finding yourself and determining what you want to do with the rest of your life. So though my second first day is going to be quite a switch for me I am going to approach all of my new courses with an open mind and just see what happens. I’ll just hope and pray for the best and hope that my mid-college crisis ends with me walking across that stage and receiving my degree.
