- I'm majoring in accounting. The plan is to graduate with my Master's by at least spring 2019, earlier if possible. But I feel like I'm not really retaining anything I learn in class. I'm worried I won't be prepared to take the CPA exam. How can I be sure I'm truly learning?
- I have a really good friend that I roomed with last semester and we're gonna be together in the fall too. But whether our relationship will last beyond college is...debatable. I really love him a lot but I'm worried we'll drift apart (as in, he'll stop talking to me) after graduation. In fact, that's how I feel about every single one of my friends. I've felt lonely my entire but when I'm at college I don't feel that way. I don't want to be lonely again after college is over. Maybe I'm just being anxious, but how can I make the friends I have "lifelong friends"?
- Is it worth it to keep doing my extra-curricular stuff? Sometimes I feel like I should only focus on class but then I think that would be hella boring. I am VP of my school's student government. Should I plan to run for president senior year? I also got invited to 2 different honor societies, but didn't respond to either invitation after hearing from others that neither society is that active. Are those worth it just for my resume, as one girl told me? It would cost me like $150 to join them both.
- I'm not in the accounting field, but is there any way you could evaluate your knowledge? For example, are there any practice CPA exams you can take to help you see where you're at, or any other kind of benchmark to help you?
2.) This is a hard one. Why do you think your relationship after college will be debatable? Has he done anything to make you think that, or are you just being paranoid? It’s hard when you worry about this kind of stuff (I’ve been there), but in the end, you can’t really control this kind of thing. It’s a two way street, and all you can do is drive nicely on your side. Be ready to embrace any issues in the other lane, but know that, truly, you can’t control it.
3.) If your extracurricular activities aren’t hurting your academic performance, then I’d say to stick with them. I would only encourage you to run for president if you truly and sincerely think you want the position/can handle it/are a good fit for it. You should never do something as monumental as that just to “look good” or anything, so be careful. And I joined one society and never really did anything with it. Sure, it looked good on my resume and for my grad school apps, but I don’t know if it was a deal breaker. Maybe you can join one society and see how it goes?
Good luck with everything.
This kind of obsessing over details tells me that you will be a brilliant accountant but it can make your inner life miserable.
It sounds like your personal life is great right now. Enjoy it. When graduation comes, you can only control your own feelings and actions. Do your part to keep in touch: invite the gang to dinner, arrange out of town get togethers, etc. Inevitably people will drift away but new people will drift in. They won’t all be friends for life and forty years from now you may look back in surprise at who turned out to be the lifelong friends and who became fond memories.
I agree with @harvestmoon about finding practice exams. Take them periodically, maybe after every half semester or something, so you can see that you’re not only retaining the material but how you’re progressing. Again, I think you’re going to do wonderfully in your career.