<p>Like really it seems like everyone has a plan except for me! How do you come up with a plan?! Like to me it just seems impossible. I am just trying to make it through each day much less thinking about my future!e</p>
<p>It’s not necessarily knowing what to do with your life, it’s having goals and visions for your life. </p>
<p>Besides, hardly anything goes to plan anymore. Your future will come. Some things you should think about and have ideas for, others you should let come and go.</p>
<p>Most people who say they have a plan haven’t actually thought it out that much. That’s not always true, but I think generally you can’t force your life goals. You’ll know them when you’re supposed to know them.</p>
<p>Before IB began, I had one goal in mind: to be a journalist. As history last year progressed (my class focused on concepts and analysis rather than pure facts) and I saw the importance of historical analysis, I wanted to apply it to current events and revised my goal to “investigative journalism.” But since IB, my list of majors has expanded to about 20 different ones, including statistics (and I used to swear I was a strictly liberal arts kind of person). My class had the treat of watching the IBxTed conference, which included Hans Rosling, who showed us that statistics, and any other form of mathematics, isn’t just a set of rules and logical functions - it tells stories and shows concrete evidence that are vital to our understanding of certain truths.</p>
<p>The education system goes in depth on the basics and only scratches the surface of how this knowledge can be pratically applied or is relevant to our own lives. There is so much out there, but we are too distracted and exhausted to see what they are. Now I have no idea what I want to do in my future, because I am just beginning to see the practical uses of the things we learn in school and the variety of other options that are out there. I wish I had been better prepared.</p>
<p>At the moment, I’m just doing the best I can to explore as much as possible within reason. It’s very worthwhile for me, and I’ll worry about specializing later! 
In other words, don’t worry about it yet!</p>
<p>Find a passion. Make a life on it. </p>
<p>At least, that’s what I did.</p>
<p>What I am mainly talking about is what college and major. I have honestly no clue what to do. I need at least I path to follow, I know I can change it later, but I need something to work towards.</p>
<p>[bad metaphor] Its like I am currently walking in a pitch dark cave. I have no clue where I am going, where I have been, or where the end is (if there even is an end). All I know is that I have to make it past the cave “monsters”. There are paths that may or may not lead somewhere and where they do lead to could be horrible. [/bad metaphor]</p>
<p>Dude. I’m IN college and I know many, many people in your boat. Don’t think about it too much. It’ll just come to you.</p>
<p>^See that is my biggest fear…just waiting. Think about it what if it doesn’t come to you until it is to late?! By that time you are in some dead in job trying to make it day by day.</p>
<p>Then you’re like most of America? Even if you find a perfect major, you might still be in a dead end job.</p>
<p>Make a bucket list and get started on that ****.</p>
<p>Seriously though. Do it. At the very least you’ll be doing the things you would’ve always wanted to be doing when you were working instead. It’s either now or when you’re 60 and retired.</p>
<p>And about the dead end job thing. Every major goes through that. For example, the chances of me getting pigeonholed into building bombs is probably a bit higher than I’m comfortable with. Also keep in mind that the average college student switches majors 2-3 times.</p>
<p>Just relax and take things as they come.</p>
<p>I don’t really have a plan. All I know is that I really really like math and science, and I’m not really interested in any other subjects. Engineering seems like something that would be cool too, so I want to try that out in college too. So I found colleges that had good programs in all of those and applied to my favorites.
I don’t think you really need to know exactly what you want to do. Just have a general idea of what you like and what you’re good at.</p>
<p>People who have plans most likely have them because they haven’t really contemplated their futures. It’s easy to tell everyone your going to be a hamster breeder when your actually so enthralled in your life in the present that you haven’t even considered how impractical or quixotic your plans are.</p>
<p>for me, having plans would be confining. I want to follow my interests, and my future interests that my current interests lead me to, and my even farther in the future interests that my future interests lead me to, and so on.</p>
<p>I’m not talking about having a specific plan, just like having some kind of goal. I have nothing! I don’t know what I want my future to be like…</p>
<p>Seriously, you’re overthinking. My plans change all the time. I chose a very flexible major that would allow me to explore my general interests. </p>
<p>This week, I want to do Teach for America. Next week, I’ll want to move to Costa Rica. It really doesn’t matter. You just do what you think feels right and go from there.</p>
<p>I’m still trying to discover my passion.
I love discussing gov’t and political theory…economics and histoire.</p>
<p>See but y’all have a general area that you have an interest in…</p>
<p>We can definitely relate. But, so can millions of other people.
It seems like all my friends have a passion in life, a goal, a direction.
And then I just feel like I’m on a boat floating in circles, with no guide. Although at one point I did feel disappointed by this, I no longer am. There so many different opportunities I could pursue, and I like having that feeling of freedom that I could try anything my mind is set to.
I don’t think anyone really knows their plan entirely- that’s why each day brings new knowledge and lessons, helping guide ourselves in the process.</p>
<p>I’ve pretty much just been drifting along since I was born. I still haven’t a clue what I want to do with my life. That’s okay though. I’ll figure out eventually, and if not, then I’ll still be just fine.</p>
<p>^^^Agreed</p>
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<p>I don’t know about you, but I knew what I wanted to do with my life since I was 5. It is just that the criteria just got more specific over the years. At 5, I knew I wanted to be a scientist. At 11, that narrowed down into Computer Programmer/Scientist. Then now, I want to be in the research field regarding computers like robotics, quantum computing, algorithms, computer architectures and ect.</p>