If you've contemplated dropping out, switching majors, dropping everything and just going backpacking around the world but then realize you're broke and might just need a college degree, then congratulations, you most likely are a junior in college about to enter your senior year.
Society makes it seem like by the time we're graduating high school and have colleges and universities chosen, that we have it all together. But for those of us who are currently in college, we know that it is all hocus pocus, because everyday we realize how much different we were from the day before. Half of the people who came to college with one major picked out end up switching it because they realize their hearts aren't in it like they thought it would be, or maybe they are just really bad at it and find something that they're more suited for. Point is, that's a scary decision especially when you're midway through your sophomore year and realize you might be staying another year in college, more than the allotted four.
Or maybe you went to a small community college for two years and decided to transfer to a university for your last two years, like me. Then you might understand the crazy decision of having to choose where to go and feel like you're back in high school having to decide all over again. Then, once you choose a place you have a hard time figuring out what it is that you want because maybe all the ideas you had about the place weren't at all what it really was.
Having preconceived notions about a university before going to it and then getting upset that it wasn't what you thought it was, is stupid. I went through this and I spent more time upset that I wasn't getting out of it what I thought I would be, that I didn't allow myself to get out of it what it could offer me. I spent a whole semester this way and then decided to enter my spring semester of my junior year with a different mind set. I decided to put my efforts in receiving what it was that it could offer me and stopped caring about what it wasn't. That's when I realized how much it was offering me that I never realized before. Now by this time it was too late to get my act together and while everyone else was getting internships and jobs for the summer, I was left trying to scramble together what seemed like another wasted summer doing nothing, but getting paid at a minimal wage job that wouldn't do anything for me in the field that I was expected to enter in a year.
After saying all this though, I also realized that it's okay. I don't have to have it all together like most of my peers, but I also know I'm not alone in that. I know that there are others who don't have it all together, i mean I know some seniors who are about to graduate who don't have it all together. I know some adults with families who don't have it all together.
My point is, that it doesn't matter that I'm expected to have it all together because I'm about to enter my senior year and I'm expected to graduate and enter the adult world in a year and I don't have it all together. I don't have a set plan, and I'm not 100% sure what kind of job I even really want when I do enter the adult world. But that's okay. I'm okay. And anyone who's also in a similar position as me, know that you'll be okay too.
