What college has taught me…
For a while I’ve been thinking about what I want to do in life. I finally chose a degree that I want to major in and is also interesting to me. Soon I’ll have switched from my current major into Sociology. So, you would think that I’d finally feel relieved/comforted that I’m back on track to get a degree and finish my education so that I can get out into the real world and find a good job, right?
Wrong. Right now, I feel even more insecure about finances and worried about eventually having to narrow down my major into a concentration that will then narrow me into a career.
So, at this point in my life, I’ve decided to write a list of the major things that I have learned from college so far. Here it goes.
- Education is expensive but learning is not. Every year my expenses go up and up. I know that without my parents’ help and government aid that going to a 4-year school would be out of the question. On the other hand, the Internet and its information is (practically) free and readily available. So why did I think it was a good idea to sit in a classroom for hours on end, all the while accruing more debt? I certainly should have asked myself this question earlier.
- Ask questions. Seriously. I cannot believe how many things in my life I have just let pass by without even thinking to question what I was told, saw, heard, or experienced. I was very complacent for so long to just accept things as they were and to maintain the status quo. I am now learning to question authority and figure out what I believe to be true.
- There are more paths to in life than the one laid out before us. For me, it was (and stills is) expected that I immediately follow up high school with college and then college with a job. I do not yet know what I’ll end up doing, where I’ll end up working, or who I’ll end up being. But, right now, I know I am not happy. So I think I’ll just start trying new things and maybe stepping off the beaten path. Perhaps, then I will find my own path to happiness.
So I think I’ll end it here for now and leave you with these last parting thoughts…Oh, what can I do?
