I have yet to identify where I would like to be post-graduation, be it in higher education or straight into the job market. Sophomore year for me has been about maintaining/ trying to raise my GPA, and figuring out where I want that GPA to be applied to. At the beginning of the fall semester, this was unknown. Halfway through the fall semester, I realized that the sociology class I was enrolled in was where I could see myself for the rest of my undergraduate years. I also liked the way my political science class overlapped with some of the material, so I declared those two majors. I was doing political science for the stature of the major, because it was a “good major” and would “get me places,” because my family did not respect sociology as my sole major, and would tell their friends and family first and foremost I was political science, and sociology was my second, less important major. This spring semester, I have been reconciling my family’s approval with what I want. Needless to say, I dropped the second major, and was sociology for a while. Taking one of the requirements for soc, I realized that I really enjoyed doing statistics, so currently I also have a supplementary major in ACMS. In my heart it sits better with me, my current place as a student. When people would ask me …show more content…
I have learned in the past year that I am not willing to reconcile what I really want for more money. If I did, I would have been an engineer or pre-med student like my mother wanted for me to be. Of course I do want to live a comfortable life, but I fear the outcome of letting my career be my life and identity as opposed to it being a part of me. It is scary to voice these thoughts to my family, being that I come from a socio-economically challenged home; my parents’ aspiration for me is to not live the same life they are living. That being said, I think this mindset is threatening to their idea of a happy comfortable