How many times have you found yourself in conversation with a fellow college student and have been asked "Whats your major? What do you plan to do with it? How did you find yourself in that field of study?" and just feel lost because you don't have the answers to all these things? Then the devastating part comes when you ask all the same questions back and they seem to know exactly what they want to do with their lives.
You probably feel behind. Maybe you feel like you're wasting your time. You feel... unsure, and insecure. You feel like everyone has their lives planned out from beginning to end, and you're just lagging behind because you don't know what you want to do with your life.
Well fellow college student, you're not alone. I'm not saying that everyone is in the same position that you are, but everyone has been in that position.
Take me for example. Going into college, I was a Biology major. It wasn't until Fall semester my sophomore year that I realized that it wasn't for me. Bio was a major that I thought I wanted because it was essentially forced down upon me by my parents. I never really enjoyed the field, but the feeling of disappointing my parents kept me in it. After realizing that's not what I wanted, I took a shot at Business. It was something that still made solid money, and something that my parents could still accept. I felt like I could be happy with it, but then it didn't take long for me to realize that math was my worst subject and that I could never make it work.
So here I am, stuck. Not sure of what I want out of life and feeling like I essentially wasted two years of my life.
But I started to look at it the other way... I feel like those two years that I thought I wasted were necessary. Those two years helped me figure out what I didn't want in life. Although it look longer than most, I'm finally in a place where I am happy with my major of choice.
No, I didn't have answers my first two years in college. And even if I did have answers, they weren't answers that I was even confident in. Answers that didn't hold any passion or real stability.
All I'm saying is that these things take time, and it's okay to be unsure. Don't compare yourself to the person that has it all figured out because at one point or another, they were in your same position.
Focus on yourself. Don't focus on where everyone else is in life, because when you start to compare yourself to others, you lose yourself.
Take a variety of courses. Evaluate what you're good and bad at. Figure out what makes you happy. Learn more about yourself. That's what college is for.
It'll take time, but you'll figure it out.
