Whoaaaaa

I've come to realize lately that I had no real idea of what I wanted to do with my life after this year, but after a great conversation with someone who I didn't know a calendar year ago but now would consider someone impossible to live life without, I believe I have a direction! While I don't want to nail down anything concrete yet simply because I am very much so still in the research stage, as well as working on my resume and starting to think about applications and cover letters, I do know that I am starting to be more and more excited about the realm of possibilities that await.

Here's the struggle, though. While it's great that I am starting to really figure out what it is I will do with my future after I finally end my undergraduate student career, I still need to make sure my focus is in the right place. I do have an incredible amount of trust placed in me by students from across the Midwest, and I also want to make sure that I take the time to do what it is that I came to college to do - be academically successful.

I'm not necessarily overenthusiastic about the academic world, but to be fair, I haven't gotten to take a class within my major in nearly a year. I'm discovering that while I do enjoy the topic, I don't necessarily have the aptitude to pursue a career in that area following graduation, and that I need to work toward my passions.

With all of the confusion above, and no real solutions, just rest your minds and know that I have managed to talk myself through quite the number of hoops and hurdles, and as always, my final decisions will not be made without plenty of consultation and understanding of the long-range implications. I am so blessed to have an amazing support network of individuals not only across the country, but even across the globe, and I hope that they can all take pride in helping shape me into the individual that I am today as I begin to prepare for the next crossroads in my life.