The decision of where to go to college is one of the most important choices of a student’s life. Parents go on and on about how I need a plan or I should know exactly where I want to go and what I want to do. The thing is, I’m only a junior in high school. I have a whole year to make these plans and choices. Being rushed into things isn’t going to help me in the future because what happens when I give them an answer and I found out I hate it there?
Being asked where I want to go every time we talk is not helping the situation. It’s only stressing everyone out. It’s not like I have no idea where I want to go. I have my choices narrowed down to four colleges, and I know what field I want to go in to.
They want one specific answer, a solid decision, and I don’t exactly know.
Everyone tells me that junior year is the year I need everything figured out and all the decisions made. I think that should be my senior year. Junior year is the middle of my high school career. I need to keep focusing on the rest of high school.
I’m 16 years old, and I’m being told that my whole life should already be planned out. No, I should be able to take the time I need to figure out where I want to go and what I want to do with my life.
I have a year and a half until that decision will come into play, and I intend to make the right choice. And I intend to do so with as much time as I need to make the best choice.