People always hype up college as the best four years of your life, a place where you find yourself, and somewhere where you learn everything you'll need for a future career. To me, that actually puts a lot of stress on students. What does a student do if they don't know what they want in the future? There's no cliché about college that answers that question.

Not knowing what the future holds is scary. Since we were little, all of us have been faced with the question, What do you want to do when you grow up?The thing is, when you're younger, there's no expectations attached to that secretly loaded question.

When you're little, any answer you give to that question is a good one. Whether you said you wanted to be an astronaut, a firefighter, a mom, or the President, whoever you told said that it was amazing that you had that goal. Now, however, things are a whole lot different.

Once you get to high school, you're suddenly expected to know exactly what you want to do in life. With barely any experience in any area you're interested in, you're almost forced to choose what you think you might be good at. How are you supposed to know then that that's what you want to do?

This even further complicates things when you get to college. On top of going somewhere new, making new friends, and everything else a college student has to deal with, we are again faced with the daunting question, What do you want to do when you grow up?

In college, that question becomes about 189375938 times scarier than it was in elementary school; the future is coming. Ready or not, in a few short years you'll be done with undergrad and will have to go out into the real world. This, to me, is absolutely petrifying. Four years seems like a long time, but it seems like you blink and a whole year goes by.

I came into college thinking I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I didn't realize that I didn't want to do it, however, until after an internship I had the summer before my sophomore year of college. Sometimes, you just don't know if you really want to do something for the rest of your life until you try it.

That forced me to start from square one; I had never had to consider any other career before, and I really wasn't sure where to start.

To other college students in my situation: everything is going to be okay. No one is going to look down on you for changing your major or for straight up saying you don't know where you'll be in the future.

College is for figuring all that out, so don't feel like because you chose a major your senior year of high school that you have to stick with it forever. Take classes about things that you're interested in, and build off of that. Find something you're passionate about and run with it.

Believe it or not, there are even more people in our situation than you may think. Though they might not like to admit it, tons of other people are in the same boat. We're all kind of blindly searching for what we want to do together, which is strangely comforting when you think about it.

No matter if you're a sophomore like me or about to graduate, don't feel pressured to pursue a career that you're not in love with. Don't ignore what you're passionate about in pursuit of a career that you think will make you look smart or help you make more money. You might feel like the weight of the world is on you as you try to find something you love, but your dream career isn't just going to pop up out of thin air. You might have to do some soul searching, but eventually you'll figure out exactly where you belong in this crazy world.

And trust me, when you do figure it out, you'll be so relieved that you surveyed all of your options and took your time to find what's right for you.

So, to all of the students out there not sure where life is going to take them: don't stress.With some faith, everything will fall into place.