College Things As I Experience Them 3

What you think you know and what you actually know.

I used to think I had my life all figured out. I had my grand master plan and I wasn’t going to stray from it because I wouldn’t have to.

The first time I realized my plan wasn’t going to work was my freshmen year all the way back in high school. Volleyball was my sport. I was good at it and killed it in the recreational league. I know right? What a badass. However, high school league was different mainly because my coach was an unhelpful asshole who didn’t want to waste time teaching me things the other girls already knew from their club teams. Therefore, my playtime was cut and I eventually quit because I was miserable. This was strike one against my plan. I wanted to be a volleyball star, get the scholarships to big universities and then I’d be able to go to some great school while getting my degree. So, already I had to rethink my decisions.

I decided to play basketball and do that instead and that fell apart too because girls love drama except for me and I didn’t want to put up with it just to shoot balls into a hoop. So strike two.

So college applications roll around and my plan is to go to my dream school, UT Austin, because of course I’d get in with my good grades and extracurriculars right? Wrong. Strike 3! I got rejected and headed off to the University of Arizona which was a close second choice but still second choice non-the-less. So I come in with the idea that I’m going to strive to be a Pharmacist with a Pharm. D. degree.

So here I am, after a ridiculously long and tiresome semester wondering if I can even do this major. I’m seriously considering changing majors. I’ve been contemplating why I wanted to major in Pharmacy and think it’s because I had nothing else and it seemed like a good career choice. However, it doesn’t seem to be the natural choice. If I wanted to cater to my strengths I would be an English major or something with writing because I obviously like to write. I mean, I’m on here aren’t I? LOL.

I think I’m going to consider other options because if I want to do it, I have to do it soon don’t I?

Moral of the story, I thought I knew a lot about me and what I wanted but college has shown me that sometimes you have to let it come to you. What you want, how to get it, and that sometimes what you want is something you shouldn’t necessarily have. I think we all should let our instincts guide us because sometimes instinct can lead us in the right direction for us rather than logic.