People ask you all the time “What do you want to do when you grow up?” or “What are your future plans?” You think that you should know exactly what you want to do with your life and have it all planned out. But for many people including me, I have no idea. It’s not that I don’t think about it, but it’s all the options that we are given when we leave high school that have my mind running blank. I don’t know what I want to do in life, all of the roads lead in different directions with good purposes to all of them. That’s the hard part. Picking what one to go down, and what one you think will work for you. That feeling I get in my stomach when I think about what I want to do, and how it’s just around the corner, the feeling of nervousness and anxiousness. Everything that we learn in live helps us get to where we’re supposed to be.
If I have one thing almost figured out its that I will most likely attend UNL, even though a good proportion of Aurora students go there. Some people want to get away from people from their class and see new things and meet completely new people when they go to college, but I think that knowing people that go there also helps make things easier, less scary. You will have someone that you know in case you need them. It gives me that feeling of comfort. I have two sisters that live in the city of Lincoln which will also be very handy. They know the city and they are right there if I ever needed anything. They have already been through the “college experience” and will know what to do in every situation that I would need help with. I consider myself pretty lucky and fortunate to have them there. Some people travel from all over the country and know nobody at all. Another benefit of going there is that in know it so well already. All three of my sisters have gone there, so I have been there over and over again. If it’s not from moving them from hall to hall every year they were there, it was just going down to see them over the weekend with parents, and taking college visits. I am also a Husker fan, even though the game against Wisconsin was not good, not good at all. I think that Nebraska has the best traveling fans that there are. No matter where their games are held, there will always be fans at their games. One of my favorite parts of watching them on T.V. is watching Bo Pelini chomp the life out of his gum during the game, and seeing him wear his grey Nebraska sweatshirt for almost every single game.
I’m not sure on what I want to study in college. There are way too many options to choose from. And it’s really hard to find something that you will actually enjoy. This is really hard for me considering how many times people change their major throughout their college days. You can’t really be sure until you have searched and found the one that fits you. The way I look at it is that I want to get the gen. eds. out of the way. There are two career paths that I have been thinking about, and they are dental hygiene or elementary education. The thing I like about dental hygiene is helping make people want to smile. I love to smile and a smile is very important. The impact that it has on some people is crazy. There are people in this school that smile non-stop, and they are great! I think that smiling can change a person’s mood in a heartbeat, and I would love to be a part of that. Elementary education is also something that I would be interested in doing. Being around kids all day and helping them learn and grow as an individual. Who wouldn’t want to be a part of that? Kids are also very entertaining and fun to be around. To me, that doesn’t sound like much of a job, but a fun way to spend every day.
There are many different directions to go, and so little time to think about which path to take. I’m only 18 years old and have lots of great things ahead of me. That’s why I think that making every day count and making every day worthwhile is what I want to do right now. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
