Snowball Effect

They do say that you can do whatever you put your mind to, but there are even a few catches there. It depends a lot on the little stuff, like if you can write well enough to convince a college to accept you, but even a lot of those things we have control over. It's not that I'm that great of a writer - I just needed it bad enough to put everything I had into putting together the best representation of myself on paper. I think I do believe if there's a will, there's a way - it's just that in some cases it takes so much will that the challenges seem insurmountable. That's where the true journey begins, in realizing that you have the will.

If you want something for your life, take it. Please, please don't do something you don't love just for the sake of it, because it will never be worth it to you in the end. I would so much rather graduate college unemployed but with a degree in something I loved instead of with a job and a crappy diploma that only came from doing a lot of work that I didn't enjoy. It's kind of parallel to people's reactions about my transferring from HC - random friends will ask me about it, interested to hear what I have to say. I'm probably thinking of this because I just got to talk to my friend Kevin, who I haven't really talked to in a while, and I was reminded of how cool he was because he was genuinely interested in what I was looking for outside of HC. I love it when people don't get defensive or think that I look down on them when we talk about my decision, and it was really refreshing to have this conversation with him. All judgements aside, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. I kind of feel like I'll miss people like him the most, because I won't have the chance to get to know them better.

It's not that I'm so unique because I actually like my classes. I'm a nerd anyway because I really try to like every class I have, and even though I sometimes don't want to go to them, they make so much more sense if you try to see where the prof is coming from and why he or she is teaching you. It all connects in a roundabout way - it just takes some more work to try to pull it all together in your head. Also, don't pick classes because they're supposed to be easy, or because the prof is easy, because that's a recipe for disaster. Do what you want, not what someone else tells you is the easy thing to do. I don't get that - Erin obsesses over ratemyteacher.com before picking any classes and has to go over the proposed syllabus with a fine tooth comb before deciding that the class is too hard for her. A class is only hard if you let it be.

I'm spieling again, sorry. Bottom line: do what you love and you never work a day in your life. Sound familiar?