<p>Hey guys, so currently I am about to start my senior year of high school with college applications fast approaching. I feel like im totally lost on what I want to do with my life, throughout high school I kept switching from interest to interest, but I still felt a sense of knowing. now it seems like I hit the end of the rope and I have to scurry to reel everything back in and double check all my possibilities.</p>
<p>let me start by saying I dislike math, and only bother on essays when it concerns a topic I actually care about. for the longest time I thought I wanted to work in the gaming industry however I tried to program this summer and found it very tedious and annoying, despite my love of the games. I also have a passion for watching sports even though I havent played one since freshman football, I recognize the devotion and talent these athletes have and I guess you can say I am a bit envious?</p>
<p>I am part Iraqi, part english/scottish/welsh and my Iraqi side of the family wants me to be a lawyer, or doctor etc etc (same as any other middle eastern family) but I am unsure if that is a path I want to pursue.</p>
<p>There is plenty of time to figure that out. I’m also a senior, and all I know is that I like learning languages. I don’t necessarily want to be a translator or a diplomat, so it basically opens every single field imaginable, but I can live anywhere in the world. I don’t know if I want to get a PhD in linguistics and study at Princeton, become a museum curator in France, help starving kids in Sudan, or become a fisherwoman in Norway.</p>
<p>Once you get to college, you’ll be able to take a much wider range of classes and explore your interests. You’ll be able to talk to other people who have a clearer idea of what they want to do, which might inspire you to do something similar. You don’t have to have everything decided right now.</p>
<p>(although this doesn’t mean you should stop thinking about–just don’t stress out over it)</p>
<p>You don’t have to know! I know it’s hard to not know, and everyone is like “that’s okay” when it feels like it’s not. But at least nobody expects you to know, even if you want to know yourself.</p>
<p>Besides, you might be interested in something but then realize you don’t have that choice. I have a friend who’s taking a year off after college JUST to figure out what he wants to do in grad school, and I think that’s silly because usually you only get one or two lab offers anyway and each lab works in a narrow field of research. Or, for instance, you could want to be a doctor but fail organic chemistry. A lot of people do that, actually. College work is a lot harder than high school sometimes.</p>
<p>Basically, be flexible, keep your options open, and take whatever opportunities are available to you in the moment.</p>
<p>*And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street,
Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;
There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.</p>
<p>In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.</p>
<p>And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?”
Time to turn back and descend the stair,
With a bald spot in the middle of my hair–
[They will say: “How his hair is growing thin!”]
My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,
My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin–
[They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”]
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.</p>
<p>For I have known them all already, known them all:–
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?*</p>
<p>Its not that bad you can do most anything as long as you can keep your gpa up. My guidance office told me that I should apply to one college I know I can get in, one college there is a chance to get in, and one of the higher up colleges that you might not get in. Just pick the one that will accomidate you the best (btw out of state tuition sucks). Your major is NOT set in stone once you get into college you are allowed to change it several times for that matter.</p>
<p>Go to a good liberal arts college and go as an undecided major.</p>
<p>Once you get to college, choose a major that includes your favorite general ed classes.</p>
<p>Then if you’re still not sure what you want to do, go to grad school.</p>
<p>A lot of people don’t know what they want to do even if they think they do. I know people who have gone to law school, becomes lawyers, and then decided they didn’t like it, so went back to school to become a math teacher.</p>
<p>My dad didn’t decide to go to law school until he was like 30 or 31. There was someone in his class who was in his 50’s.</p>