Summer thoughts…
Yep. Here I am, sitting in my room looking for something to do… I do have a job, but working 3-4 days a week still leaves 3-4 days a week that I have to find something to do. Psh that’s easy, some may say…
Read more about the struggles of summer below –
but it’s not; my best friend has an internship with the economics department at NC State and my girlfriend works for the same company I do, but a different location. Needless to say, coordinating days to get together with friends can be a tough task… I guess it’s a good taste of what “real life” is going to be like.
Just because you’re available doesn’t mean your friend is. It’s a concept I thought I knew years ago when I first started working a job, but I suppose it hasn’t set in until this summer. We are all starting up our futures, starting new chapters in our lives, planning out our career paths. For this reason, it has dawned on me that I need to cherish the simple blessing of having access to friends at school with me while I can. I almost want to opt out of summer next year because I don’t want to be at home stuck in the same family dynamic I have been in for as long as I can remember. With all due respect to my parents, I don’t want to come home next summer because I want to try out some independence. I am going to do some thinking about what I would like to do next summer (obviously staying around Vanderbilt campus/Nashville) and apply for that kind of stuff pretty soon. If you would have asked me last summer what I would be doing in between school years at Vanderbilt, I would have said “coming home each summer.” I have changed my mind. Living on my own for the year has made me embrace my independence; I have proved to myself that I really can survive outside of my parents home. It’s an empowering feeling. The feeling of independence that I have gotten from living at Vanderbilt has put me in a “go out and get’em” mindset. Feeling independent has inspired me to want to achieve. Before, because I was uncomfortable in the place I was submerged in made me want to play everything safe – not go out and look for opportunities after college. Now I feel like I have a home plate to come back to and regroup mentally so I can have the courage to go out and take risks in my desired career path. My thought for the day…