To be honest, I don’t know what I do. I’m still figuring it out. The fact that this isn’t anonymous makes this post a little less candid and specific, but I’m going to try.
Put shortly, I’m a second year who is behind on his unit count, but still plans to double major and graduate on time. And at this point I’m not really concerned. I have no idea what I want as a career but I am hoping to become a lawyer because it pays a lot, and because it’s one of the few avenues I feel are open to me if I get my degrees in history and political science. And right now, I do what I do (whatever it is) because I don't like being bored.
I party a lot, probably to make up for the years I spent in high school without much of a social life. Back then I felt like I owed it to my parents not to have any fun because I saw how hard they had worked to give me the best life possible. I never went out, and had a small group of friends. This carried over into my first year of college. My entire freshman year I was bored as hell and had very little to do. I finally got tired of it, and the small group of friends I made that year decided that we should join fraternities, which was obviously not conducive to maintaining any type of academic drive, no matter what they tried to convince me of when I pledged. At least this way, we could be sure we would find things to do at night rather than twiddling our thumbs and playing video games.
And that is why I do what I do. I’m in a fraternity so I can get my friends into parties and save them from the year of boredom we experienced upon entering this school, as well as the years of boredom I went through beforehand. For right now, academics are pretty much secondary to me until I gain some maturity and get past this phase.
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