Life choices provide knowledge for "real world"
By Abby Souchock
Rocket Copy Editor
Issue date: 4/23/04 Section: Opinion
As we know, life is all about choices.
From the time we're young, we're already making decisions about what we think we want to be when we "grow up." When I was in elementary school, I was convinced I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher - an idea that now is quite laughable, considering I don't want to teach at all, let alone teach 5 year olds. But at the time, that was my choice. My next chosen profession came in high school, when I thought I wanted to study criminology at IUP (now I shudder at the thought - of IUP, not criminology). Of course, in the end I chose Slippery Rock and eventually became an English major, not to go into teaching, but to study writing. Little did I know just how many choices I would have upon graduation.
It's that time now, and all of a sudden I'm faced with choices and decisions about a job, moving away and leaving what I have known for not only my four years here, but the first 22 years of my life. Choices are a scary thing, but they are also exciting because they are what shape your life.
Making choices can ruin a friendship or a relationship, or it can fix them. Choices can lead you to new places, help you meet new people and experience new things. A choice is really no more than a decision you make, and any decision affects your life, whether it is small and seemingly insignificant (like what to make for dinner) or big and truly life changing (like what to do after college). Because believe it or not, college does end. It may not seem like it ever will, but one day you, too, will be graduating and wonder where the time went.
And then it's time to move on from your college career to the start of a "real" career - and the search for it isn't as easy as you once believed it to be. When you start out as a freshman, the end of college seems so far off into the future. People say that time goes by more quickly the older you get, and I believe that's true, because even though the days may go slowly, the weeks, months and years fly by.
From the time we're young, we're already making decisions about what we think we want to be when we "grow up." When I was in elementary school, I was convinced I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher - an idea that now is quite laughable, considering I don't want to teach at all, let alone teach 5 year olds. But at the time, that was my choice. My next chosen profession came in high school, when I thought I wanted to study criminology at IUP (now I shudder at the thought - of IUP, not criminology). Of course, in the end I chose Slippery Rock and eventually became an English major, not to go into teaching, but to study writing. Little did I know just how many choices I would have upon graduation.
It's that time now, and all of a sudden I'm faced with choices and decisions about a job, moving away and leaving what I have known for not only my four years here, but the first 22 years of my life. Choices are a scary thing, but they are also exciting because they are what shape your life.
Making choices can ruin a friendship or a relationship, or it can fix them. Choices can lead you to new places, help you meet new people and experience new things. A choice is really no more than a decision you make, and any decision affects your life, whether it is small and seemingly insignificant (like what to make for dinner) or big and truly life changing (like what to do after college). Because believe it or not, college does end. It may not seem like it ever will, but one day you, too, will be graduating and wonder where the time went.
And then it's time to move on from your college career to the start of a "real" career - and the search for it isn't as easy as you once believed it to be. When you start out as a freshman, the end of college seems so far off into the future. People say that time goes by more quickly the older you get, and I believe that's true, because even though the days may go slowly, the weeks, months and years fly by.
