First and foremost you should have an ultimate goal.
What is your passion??? Think first about your talents and interests. Then research careers that incorporate those skill sets. You want to make sure to choose a career that you will love. Remember, this will be something that you are going to do everyday for the rest of your life. This is a huge decision that you don’t want to take lightly.
If you’re interested in chemistry, biology, anatomy, etc. then you may want to take interest in a medical career. Let’s say you choose to become a doctor. Well, that’s good and all but now you need to also think about what kind of doctor you want to be. Do you want to be a pediatrician, a gynecologist, a surgeon, you get my drift. The narrower your ultimate goal the more focused your plan will be. Now don’t get me wrong, if you choose to become a pediatrician and somewhere down the line you decide being a dermatologist would be a better fit for you, it’s okay to alter your goals a little.
Now that you have an ultimate goal, you need to find out what it will take to achieve it. You’ll want to develop some short-term goals that will help you along the way.
This is when you figure out what path you need to take in order to achieve your goals. If you’re going to become a pediatrician you will need a college education. Not only are you going to have to complete some undergraduate coursework, but you will also need to attend medical school. It is your responsibility to figure out all the necessary steps it will take to ultimately become the best pediatrician you can be. While you do this research on what it takes to become a pediatrician you may discover that you don’t want to go through all that rigorous schooling. If that’s the case you may want to consider other career paths that will be better suited for you. Because you have decided to plan your life before jumping into school, you have alleviated the stress of having to change your major later on in your college career.
After deciding on an ultimate goal, figuring out the path in which will allow you to achieve that goal, and developing some short-term goals that will help you along the way, you now need to implement your plan and stick with it.
Once you have chosen to go to college, you have chosen a major, and you have signed up for your freshmen courses, you will now have to discipline yourself to go to class, do your homework, study for exams, and pass your classes. At times you may want to sleep in instead of going to that eight o’clock class in the morning. You may even want to go out to the club with your friends and have a good time instead of writing that paper and studying for your test. Just remember this is your future in which you are shaping. You may even get super stressed out at times and want to quite, give up, and go back home where life seems to be easier. Just remember, this is your future in which you are shaping. Make sure you reference back to your plan and focus on your short-term goals whenever you get discouraged.
Some students choose to go off to college without a clue as to what they want to do with their lives. These students who don’t choose a major upon entering college are classified as “undecided”. This path will allow students to focus more on the general education courses until the student can figure something out. During that time the student can see what kind of coursework interests them the most. Maybe the math courses interest them more, or maybe it’s the science courses, or even the health courses. They can then choose a major of study based upon the coursework that interests them the most. While this method is doable, it can cause the student to waist both time and money on unnecessary coursework. Would I recommend going to college without a plan??? NO!!!!! I would highly suggest for you to have a plan. No matter what you plan on doing with your life; please, please, please, I beg of you to figure out some sort of plan even if that plan does not include a college education.
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