The 2nd Year

So my Freshman year of life has come and gone...though I think it would only be fair to say my Freshman year of life should go through May since I graduated early.

Regardless, the past year of real life has taught me a lot. I moved out on my own, I got a job and I am starting to learn what I see myself doing as a career. (professional lifeguard? i don't think so.). The past year was nothing liked what I imagined my post-college life would be as a 15 year old, but I am happy with where I am and wouldn't change anything about it (except I would have more money).

I think when we are little we all follow the path we are supposed to--graduate high school, get into college, graduate college, get a job. They focus so much in high school about getting into college they oversee the "figure out what you want to do in college your first 2 years so you don't graduate with no set plan". I wanted to work for the State Department when I went into college which would make sense with my Political Science degree. The thing they don't tell you is that when you decide by junior year that you don't want to work for the State Department, you are left with a Poli Sci degree and no where to go. Everyone always asks me what i want to do with my degree--my answer? I have no idea. I had a set plan but by junior year you can't go and switch the plan. Or you can, but it will cost an addition $40,000 for the extra year you will have to stay in out of state school. So here I am...

The Freshman year of life taught me about as much as the freshman year of college. There I learned to make new friends and do my own laundry while now I learned to pay bills and get up at 8am. 4 years ago I taught myself to like beer, and now I find myself doing the same with wine. I had to make it through the hell week of finals and now I have to make it with no christmas vacation and summer break.

It was my junior year of college where I learned exactly what to study and how many hours before the paper was due that I had to start. It was the last 2 years that I got the highest grades in the class on tests and really started to excell at the whole class part of college. So many it will take 2 years in the real world to figure it all out. Maybe these first two years can be spent how my first two years of college were spent--having fun, messing up, and figuring life out.