Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Why'd I ever leave?
On the way back from the weekend road trip, we stopped by UC Santa Cruz (one of the University of California campuses to you non-Cali folks). It is totally the most beautiful college campus ever. EVER! The buildings are nestled among a forest of redwood trees and you walk along nature paths to get to class. I went there for two years and loved every second of it.
The problem was I was completely undecided as to what I wanted to do with my life, as far as a career goes. I went undecided for two years (the maximum the university would allow) just taking core classes and exploring my options. I thought about some kind of computer major, but I didn’t even own a computer at the time and it had some math requirements that really scared me. There just wasn’t anything that stood out for me.
I should have spoken to a guidance counselor or something, because the logic that was guiding me at the time was flawed. I thought if I chose a major that was too generic, such as Business, or too useless, such as Social Studies, no one would want to hire me. So I picked a really specific major, and ended up transfering to a university in LA. That was a really stupid move. I ended up hating the major halfway through it, but decided to finish it anyway because I was already on a five-year plan as it was because of the transfer.
After graduating I ended up going into web development and a little bit of IT, based solely on everything I learned from playing around with computers on my own. So in the end, it didn’t really matter what I majored in at all!
Had I just picked a generic major, I could have stayed at the beautiful campus and graduated in four years. Of course the path my life would have taken would have been completely different, so I don’t regret the decision since I’m happy with where I’m at now. But looking back, I could have spent a little more time in paradise before moving on to the real world.
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