College Life, Growth, and Learning When to Choose Yourself
If I had to sum up this entire college journey in one feeling, it would be this: constantly learning while trying to keep up with who I thought I was supposed to be. This is my fifth semester of college, and I can honestly say this spring semester taught me more than any class ever has. Not just about marketing or management or sports or anything on my transcript—but about myself. About what I actually want, what I’m actually good at, and what I had to stop forcing just to fit a version of my life I thought I was supposed to want. Finding my direction (and letting go of the wrong one) At the start of my college journey, I didn’t have things figured out. I went in thinking I wanted to be an oral surgeon. That felt like the “right” answer at the time. But somewhere along the way, I realized I was trying to fit myself into something that wasn’t actually mine. Letting go of that wasn’t easy. I had to have real conversations—with people close to me like my parents, my grandparents, and...