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Originally Posted by Pessimisticat
Anyway, in my defense I am not saying CC > Unis.
Just for some jumping straight from HS to a Uni can be very challenging and taxing, when just going to a CC first might give them the extra time and skills they need. Plus, it can be cheaper, too.
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I found this for me, but it could also be that I simply suffered from not getting all the introductory new student stuff that happens in first year. Going into third year Uni, as I was, it's sort of assumed you know what you're doing already, and again, it was not just a college to uni shift, but a tiny college to big uni shift.
Money was my reason to start in college, and it amuses me to think that my dad likes to brag more about me getting out of school without debt, than about me having a degree.
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Oh the topic of "what do I want to be when I grow up?" I've thought about this. I thought about it as a kid, in high school, in college, in university, after university, in university again...
And my answer is...I don't *%#&ign know.
Still.
I don't know.
I was going to go get a BSC after high school! No. I'm going to go to an art schoool. No. I'm going to get to that art school and get a degree in commercial design! No. I'm going to be a social worker! No. I'm going to be a librarian! Let's think about that last one.
I have an English lit degree, because I
like poetry, not because I wanted to be a poet.
If you have a thought, try it. I actually tried to go for that commercial design degree, but I never made the portfolio I needed to apply to the school. That told me that I wasn't as interested in actually
doing the work, as much as I liked thinking about it.
I got as far as applying to the school of social work at my university in year three but was rejected on the basis of lack of personal experience. The committee said right out to me that if I went and got that practical experience, they would let me in, because my GPA was (at the time) so high. I kept putting it off. That told me that general social work (which is where the bulk of the field is) is likely not the job for me, and I would be better off sticking with casual volunteering and such if I wanted to help people.
I'm in library science now because I was laid off from my previous work due to the economy and the opportunity to go back to school presented itself. Like poetry, I like libraries, and it's something I've always had in the back of my mind, just perhaps not as loud or as "cool" to me as the other ideas I had when I was younger, and I'm satisfied with the thought.
Look at me! I sound old!
TLDR:
If you don't know what you want to do with life (I never did) pick something and try it. You may find that while something seems like a good idea in your head, actually doing it is another matter.