Career Path
My whole life I've thought I should be a scientist or engineer. Some smart, mathy field that let me use my logical brainpower to make the world a better place from my cubicle or lab.
Even when I got panic attacks at the mere thought of thinking about math, even though I spent the last two months of my second MIT semester in a practically perpetual nervous breakdown (that nobody really seemed to notice ... damn), I refused to acknowledge any other career path for myself.
Not any more.
Sure, I might wind up being a scientist after all, but you know what? This summer I am exploring different options. Heck, maybe I'll take a year off next year and explore some more. I'm sick of forcing myself through excruciating (and, in the case of my ER-level asthma and crew, decidedley unhealthy) situations. I have no desire to kill myself trying to conform to my 14-year-old self's decision of who I should be for the rest of my life.
So... wish me luck! From here on out I'm tearing down my old paradigm, and taking off on an uncharted path. Ha!
Even when I got panic attacks at the mere thought of thinking about math, even though I spent the last two months of my second MIT semester in a practically perpetual nervous breakdown (that nobody really seemed to notice ... damn), I refused to acknowledge any other career path for myself.
Not any more.
Sure, I might wind up being a scientist after all, but you know what? This summer I am exploring different options. Heck, maybe I'll take a year off next year and explore some more. I'm sick of forcing myself through excruciating (and, in the case of my ER-level asthma and crew, decidedley unhealthy) situations. I have no desire to kill myself trying to conform to my 14-year-old self's decision of who I should be for the rest of my life.
So... wish me luck! From here on out I'm tearing down my old paradigm, and taking off on an uncharted path. Ha!