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First Week of College
I wasn’t sure what topic to write about for my first post, so I thought I would start from the beginning when you first enter college as a freshmen. It can be pretty intimidating your first week at school. You are forced to live in a foreign environment, away from everything thats familiar to you. But this is what the college experience is all about.
This sets up the perfect environment to get to know people and make new friends. Never again in your life will you have the opportunity to just go up to random people and introduce yourself without looking weird. It’s also a very good opportunity to talk girls or guys you find attractive haha. A good place to start meeting people is in your dorm. Make an effort to get to know all your hall mates since you are going to be living closely with them for the next year. This way you will have a group of people to eat with at the cafeteria so you won’t look like a loner sitting by yourself.
Also during your first week at school, all the organizations will be on campus advertising to you. I thought it was pretty intimidating at first, all these people standing around trying to force flyers and brochures into your hand. But it’s worth your time to check out these organizations, they usually offer free events for you to get to know them. The fraternities and sororities will offer clubbing events, house parties or kickbacks (definition: It is hosted at someone’s house, consisting of friends getting together to engage in party activities such as drinking etc., without the hassle and drawbacks of a big party). It’s a good chance to drink and party even if you aren’t planning on joining the org. But be sure to check out whatever interests you, usually whatever organizations you join will likely define the rest of your college social life. I feel like everyone should at least join one club while in college. You will meet lots of people interested in the same things you are, and will always have something to do on your free time.
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My first week of college was a little awkward. I came from a rural area and moved out to the city to study. I feel aloof on my classmates. But they made me feel comfortable though. After a month, I have already met a lot of new friends. My first activity was discussion of the book Secret of the Millionaire Mind
I will be a senior but feel like a first-week freshman with my indecisive career path…Appreciate any advice!
I will be a senior this fall at , on track to graduate with a BS in Marketing. Unfortunately, after classes and a couple of internships, I realize that I detest the concept and practice of marketing. My passions, I believe, lie in writing and thinking about “softer” fields including sociology/psychology, theology, and ethics.* I have 35k in debt so far.
But at this point, I wonder if I should just make the smartest decision financially and pursue a field that I won’t kill myself doing like marketing/selling.
Should I switch majors to Accounting, costing me another 10k in debt and year of school plus whatever else for a CPA? Or–my brother is a mechanical engineer at Cornell, I come from a long line of engineers, and I’m pretty bright–should I go for a second bachelor’s in engineering after graduating with my Marketing degree? That option might run me another 40k in debt and 4 years’ time, but pay out better than accounting in the long run.
Other options I’ve played out in my head include joining the peace corps to forgive some loans, starting my own PR business after graduating, studying for a Master’s in philosophy in the UK on a full-ride (fingers crossed for that scholarship)…feeling overwhelmed. What’s the smartest call here, you think?
*One last note on “following your passion,” which I hope you’ll include as I think applies broadly to a lot of the questions you receive on here. While it’s true that an English major can–to the relief of many English majors–be employable after all (in advertising, technical writing, etc.), I don’t believe that any fiction writer is thinking “press release” when asked about her true passion.
I just question the logic in many of the comments saying “less money is worth following your dreams”…I mean, yeah, hypothetically, I’d consider writing essays on my theological musings for a 30k salary the rest of my life instead of doing some ******** for 60k. An exciting/interesting gig is probably worth that 30k difference per year in overall happiness points…
…but I doubt I can get paid anything to be an essayist. More likely, well-meaning students write essays for 4 years in college (“following their passion”), then for the next 40 years write sparingly trying to impress consumers, publications, etc. or write soulless freelance how-to articles, kissing ass, teaching, and/or some other b.s. for that lower salary that they had assumed would be worth the tradeoff in extra fulfillment of “following their bliss.” Point is, when you realistically appraise what you can get paid to do, I’m wondering if anybody besides rock stars actually get paid to do what they love…I don’t know if writing for the sake of writing is worth the 30k difference I could be making as an engineer/accountant.
That is a bare-bones assumption that all your theater/art/English Lit/philosophy/anthropology student advisees should think about quantitatively: What’s the value on the fulfillment I’ll get from a career loosely related to my passion (like writing advertisements), as opposed to a better-paying gig that is unrelated to my passion (like accounting)? Will your job’s loose connection to your true passion for 40 hours per week REALLY offer you more happiness overall than an extra 30k in salary in an unrelated field?
After all, happiness is the end-game here.
Is a job just a job, and might we all be better off doing something tolerable and challenging for the most money per hour possible?
Thanks for your thoughts on my situation! Your site is a godsend for indecisive students like me and many others.
I’m going to be heading off to college soon, and I’m sort of freaking out. I feel I wont have any time to complete my workload and also learn the material. How was it your freshman year?