So much to do, so little time!

High school students are expected to know where they want to go and what they want to do as soon as they graduate. High school careers are bent on training students and helping them decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Some know exactly what they want to do from the get-go and some have no idea, but for those like me, there are just too many paths and too many things to study in a measly four years.

Although I have known what I want to study for the past three years, there are so many choices and so many things I want to do. College classes are very specialized and geared toward a certain topic, which makes it easy to become an expert on smaller, very specific topics, but much harder to become versed in an entire subject unless you had previously studied it. For instance, those who are going to study any form of communications, like myself, has the opportunity to study anything from newspaper to broadcast to marketing to creative uses of media. As expected, these choices have caused a fair amount of distress in my choice making process. College is about branching out and becoming your own person, yet students are limited to what they can juggle in a typical, standard schedule. Each college freshman will take about 4-6 classes per semester, which includes core curricula, but I would rather spend my time loading my schedule with every type of media possible.

At the end of the day, double majoring and double minoring just doesn’t seem practical. Although I could spend hours learning about the ins and outs of journalism, I’ve realized that life is completely spent learning—whether wanted or unwanted—even though it isn’t always in the classroom setting. Vandegrift has prepared me for college in more ways than I had originally thought, and not just from classes. COOL week, Pals, Ready-Set Teach, sports and every other organization on campus really focus on emphasizing the main goal: getting to do what you want with your life. So while I may want to study everything now and do everything as soon as possible, I remind myself: I’ve got my whole life ahead of me.