I'll admit, I didn't intend on attending Clarion University when I graduated high school. I had it all planned out: I was going to attend Pitt-Bradford and go for writing and nothing else. But when my plans fell through at the end of my Senior year of high school, I was stuck in a rut. I wasn't sure of what to do, so I took my English teacher's and my mother's advice and applied to Clarion. At the end of June, I was well on my way to becoming a Golden Eagle. The only problem was, what do I apply as? Do I continue with my plans on becoming a writer, or do I switch directions entirely and take a track that I've never even considered before?

So I decided to go with my gut and apply as an English major. That was my safety net and the one thing that I was sure that I wasn't going to change as time went on. To this day, I'm happy to say that English is the only thing that I've been able to keep original in my college plans. I'll be the first to tell you that I'm an indecisive person, and I truly am, and when it comes to academics, I'm no different. I would lay awake at night during my first semester freshman year and wonder if I was taking the right course of action, or if I was just going to stay within my safety net and not branch out.

I was wrong yet again. During my orientation, I added another major of Spanish because I thought that was the right thing to do. I always enjoyed having some type of language in my life, and I thought that if I could become a translator, I could shed the stereotype that I was going to become a writer or an English teacher, and, thanks to the tattoos on my wrist, I've shed any chance of me becoming any type of teacher, but that's another article for another day.

So, as I started my freshman year, I was officially a double-major, while more than half of the freshmen on campus were looking at their maps and moving in. I knew that I wanted to conquer every aspect of academics that this college had to offer, because that was just the type of person that I was, and I still apply that same type of principle to my academic career going into my junior year.

Fast forward to two weeks into my freshman year, and I've already added a minor to my list of academic responsibilities: women and gender studies. I joined the WGS program under the advice of my favorite English professor because she said that I would fit in well in the program and that she could see the potential in me.

At this point in time, I'm currently sporting the following on my transcript: English with a concentration in writing, modern languages: Spanish, women and gender studies, and history: Black studies. Will I ever finish college? Will I collapse under the pressure? Find out on the next episode of: Why Did I Do This to Myself: College Edition.