Hello there dear little freshman. I know that you’re out on your own now and you think that you have the rest of your life figured out. Well let me be the first (or maybe not the first) one to break it to you; you don’t. You can be the person who thinks they have life planned out but take it from me, that will change real quick. Before I came to college I had my future planned out. I knew what career path I was going to go down, I knew where I would live, the whole 9 yards.
Now I’m a sophomore in college who is lucky if she has the rest of the day planned (which 9.9 times out of 10 NEVER happens).
This may seem hard for you to hear but I know from personal experience that it happens to everyone. Everyone that I know that is in college or has been to college has rarely graduated with the major they started out with. I know a lot of people will tell you when you’re a senior in high school that you need to have everything planned out and figured out before you leave for college, but I know you will more than likely change your mind a hundred times and in the end you still won’t fully know what you’re doing and where you’re going so it’s okay to be completely clueless. College is stressful and if you think too much about your future then you’ll miss a lot of things that are going on around you in the moment.
Don’t stay in your room studying all day because you may miss meeting your future bridesmaid/best man or the person your child will call aunt/uncle.
I’m not saying that having your future life figured out is a bad thing just make sure that you don’t think TO hard about it. Live your life the way you should be living it; as a carefree, stress free college student. Sure you need to have some ideas about your future but don’t start stressing now. The next 3 years are going to be some of the best years of your life. These are the years you’ll find your future husband/wife and you will meet your life-long friends here and maybe your future employers. College isn’t just about the school work, classes, and exams. It’s about living as stress free as possible because once you’re out of here, that’s when the real world and real world stress will begin.
Once that tassel is turned, the college debt starts piling up and the job opportunities seem to be non-existent, then you’ll be wishing you had enjoyed college a little more and stressed a little less.
You’re a young adult, which means that nobody really expects you to know your future completely. For a while after you graduate, you may be jobless and that’s okay. If you have to take up a small job at a grocery store being a bagger while you look for your future career, that’s normal and completely okay! While I am still in college and have a little bit of time before I graduate, I am friends with enough people who have graduated recently and have parents who lecture me enough in my 19 years of life to know what I have to “look forward to”.
So enjoy life before it passes you up!
