You’re faced with such an altered view of reality when you barely graduate high school.  Granted, some people do rationalize what they have to come when they get into college, but most, including myself, thought college would be so simple.  Take the classes I need and get out.  Wrong.  I was not prepared to fight for a spot in full classes or have my mind flip flop between career paths and what major to pick.  It’s really discouraging when you always feel like you’re stuck with nowhere to go whether it be because all the classes that you need are always full or that you have no idea where you want to go in life.  Or maybe you do have a dream of where to go in life, but it, in no way, will be able to financially support you in the crumbling economy so this forces you to choose a major in career path that is “eh” in your mind but you have to stick with it to keep up financially with society’s standards.  

This is where I’m at.  And it sucks.  I’ve been out of high school for 4 years and I feel like I’m no closer to graduating any time soon.  Who knows if I’ll ever get into nursing school, or if I even want to.  Sure, I’d be in the health field, but it’s not what I want to do.  To be an immunologist would be my dream, but that would take switching my major (which is a challenge in itself), graduating, somehow getting into medical school, and then going through all the residency and interning to get there.  And I’m not even done after that because I’ll be in about $132,000 of debt.

Am I wrong to be stressing about this?  Life just doesn’t come as easy as I thought.  Sure, I’m naive for thinking that.  And it does suck to be realizing this so late in age.  I’m hoping my act with get together soon.  There’s just so many components that don’t fit together that are restraining me from moving forward.