Hi all I’m new here and I just started the last semester of my senior year. I’m trying to squeeze in 18 hours in one semester so that I don’t have to come back anymore. One class is a 2 credit hour joke course that I just had to add on to have enough credits because something got screwed up and somehow I had a duplicated course despite the course numbers being different. It’s only 6 weeks and doesn’t start until the end of March.
I’m just extremely stressed that I’m going to be so overwhelmed this semester that I’m honestly not going to care about grades and I just want to get out.
There is one class that I’m genuinely really concerned about is the final course for my major that’s going to involve working in a group and it’s the final course of my major. Unfortunately I don’t have probably 2 classes that I couldn’t squeeze in earlier on due to them filling up that could have helped majorly going into this course and I just feel like I’m going to be at a major disadvantage in this class because of that. I’m just going to try and stick out the best I can and pull my weight the best I can in this group despite being at this disadvantage. I guess I’m just scared of failure in this class.
I guess one thing to look forward to is that when I get out I’ll have made it out debt free. I’ve been very fortunate having a great summer job and help from my parents allowing me to stay at home still while going to school and getting a degree. Plus I’ll have about 6 weeks off to recharge and then be able to keep every dollar I earn from my summer job this year.
After that it’s a very big mystery what I want to do. I don’t know if it’s bad or not but I still have no idea what I want to get into yet. My degree is in Marketing and I’m in one of the top 10 business schools in the entire country. I chose Marketing because I really liked the first Marketing course I took and then I also liked my Consumer Behavior course last semester as well. I’m basically cramming half my major courses in my last semester. I’m on my third one, first Zoology, then Accounting, and then now on Marketing.
My summer job kind of has Marketing and Management application to it, I’ve done it for 4 years now and I think I have some experience of at least knowing what it’s like to build relationships and dealing with people. It’s a lot of sales based but I wouldn’t consider it insanely hard work, I enjoy doing it though the face to face interaction of selling stuff to people is my favorite part. My parents are friends with someone that is very big in the hotel business and said they could probably easily get me a job after I graduate. I just have no idea what I’m going to do with a Marketing degree working for a hotel company. I don’t know if I’d almost prefer rather to get in Management or do both Management and Marketing. I’m not necessarily sure, I may even wind up in something completely different who knows.
Anyways wow that was kind of long, thanks for reading my essay it’s just a stressful time right now and I had to just try to vent to something.
I think the thing to do is to remember your priorities. It seems like getting out debt free is your goal…but also make sure to keep up your GPA. You can always drop a course and take it over the summer if necessary.
Start talking to your Career Placement office about interviews. Probably you should be doing them now. Take a look at large consumer product companies for a start.
My GPA is currently a 3.25 which is I think pretty solid. I don’t think at this point I can ruin it that badly in my last semester. I’ve always been a very good hard working student, not necessarily the smartest but I work extremely hard to get good grades. As far as summer classes it’s not really an option as none of the courses I’m taking right now are offered in the summer or else I would consider it. Bad thing is I would be paying probably another 1500 dollars to go for one class, I figure I might as well save the trouble and just cram it all into one. Problem is I hate the environment of the main campus. I’m not trying to sound like an angry person but I don’t come from a rich family and pretty much the majority of the main campus is out of state kids that mommy and daddy pay all their tuition. I’ve worked the last 4 summers to pay for all my schooling, I went to regional campuses my first 3 years and have to go to the main campus this year to finish. Let’s just say I had a great time at the regionals and this year I spend as little time on the main campus as I possibly can because I just don’t like the environment. It would be pointless to transfer at this point or prolong my education another semester so it’s probably best I just grind forward and get this over with.
I guess my problem is that I’m just experiencing major mental burnout of college and education in general. I love working at my summer job. It seems like everyone is pressured to go to college these days and you honestly have to have it to even stand a chance in competing in today’s job market. I’m not even really sure if I want to go into working in Marketing, I find it extremely interesting and at my summer job I love face to face interactions with all the people I meet and have been dealing with for 4 years but I’m not the most outgoing person ever and I’m not sure if I could legitimately get into Marketing. I pretty much sell stuff to people but it’s kind of my own thing. Just not sure if I could cut it in real sales. Guess I’m more of an Entrepreneur then anything but yet I still answer directly to someone.
I guess what I’m trying to get at is are there more options then just besides straight Marketing? To be honest after I dropped out of Accounting I had no real idea what I wanted to switch to. I figured I would have to stay in the business field because I already got into a very competitive business school and I didn’t want all that hard work to go to waste and just completely flip flop it again. I kind of just picked it because it was either between Marketing and Management. Like I said I’ve enjoyed the 3 Marketing based courses I’ve had so far but now I’m in 4 different Marketing courses this semester just because I’m so behind from switching majors twice and I just don’t know want to be overwhelmed by this one final course.