Oh Shoot, We’re Almost There!
Just like high school prepares you for college, college prepares you for the real world. Are you really ready?
During your junior year in high school you were getting all your materials together: crunching in many AP classes, signing up for SAT prep, and considering your college application essay topics. This time it’s the same scenario but only a thousand times scarier and even more important; now you’re not preparing for the best time of your life, you’re preparing for the rest of your life. Whatever you decide now, at the beginning of your junior year, will be set in stone.
You start to think: When did so much time just pass me by? There’s so much I could have done! What’s my class schedule like? What textbooks do I need? I think I’d rather work than spend so much money. I need an internship or maybe a job! What’s my career going to be? What am I going to be?
Okay, stop freaking out and let’s relax.
How about we reminisce back to your freshman year. It might be blurry considering the fact that after 18 years of being told what to do, you had finally attained a new kind of freedom. Sometimes it was the worst (you missed your home cooked meals), but the times you can recall will always be remembered as the best times of your life. Despite that pitiful, ever-dismounting GPA.
Flash-forward to sophomore year when you were well acquainted with the campus map and that molecular bio class is starting to make sense. All your friends moved into houses, so you actually knew the people living in the “party” houses. Despite all the partying, this time you’ve started repairing your beaten up GPA – whew!
And now you find yourself in your junior year. It really is time to buckle up and get on it. Finally, the decision year is here and you actually need to look for jobs and internships that may be of interest to you. The time has come to visit that dusty old career center for possible career options. Dress to impress, design a portfolio, and bust out your resume. If you haven’t made a resume yet, then stop reading this blog post and get on it!
This year doesn’t represent the end of everything you love to do; it represents the finite concept of time. Take comfort in the fact that you don’t have to jump into reality just yet, but you’re getting pretty close. Senior year has its own set of worries, so it is better to panic now than receive a big panic bomb in your final year at college (sorry seniors).
Calm down and take a deep breath. Don’t think too much and feel too little. We know we have two years left, so let’s join hands and say the most common statement you’ll hear the entire year, “Oh shoot, we’re almost there!”
