Not Knowing What the Heck You're Doing (a.k.a. College)

So now you're in college. The place where you finally get to learn how to do the job you want, except for those first two years where you're doing the same thing you did in high school. Plus, you'll most likely change your major somewhere in that time frame once or maybe twice. The good thing though is you get to pick your classes with some freedom of what time you'd like to take them.

When I entered college, I thought it was going to be soooo much better than high school. For one, I was ready to not have to wake up at 6 am and go to school for 7 hours straight. I was ready to have "freedom". I literally told my mom that wherever I went, I wanted to live in a dorm so I could experience college life...except I ignored the fact that I'm not social and I prefer not being around people 24/7.

So I ended up living in a dorm, but only for one semester because I'm not the most thought out person in the world. On top of that, I ended up transferring schools. So while most normal people transfer from a community college to a university, my creative self had to transfer from a university to a community college in the middle of the academic year.

On the plus side, I've had a way better social life since transferring.

After settling in to community college, I decided to change my major since everything else I planned was changing. So instead of majoring in Zoology, I decided to major in Early Childhood Education, basically the same thing. Just instead of calling the thing you work with an animal, you call it a monster..i mean kid.

While everyone's college experience differs, odds are, no one really knows what they're getting into when entering their freshman year. And no one really knows what they're doing for the rest of their college careers. And that's totally cool. My high school self would drop dead before thinking I would ever become a teacher. And who knows, I might even change that (although I can't really afford to change it again).

College may be everything you thought it would be and it may not. The key is to just learn to live with not knowing what's happening.

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