I sat down for my advising appointment for this semester. And although we planned out my schedule for next spring, we also chatted about other things. One of those was what my plan after college is. This was a question that completely caught me off guard. I had honestly not really thought at all about how I am nearing the end of my college career. It feels like five minutes ago, I was just a freshman learning how to register for classes for the first time.
I never realized until now that after this coming semester, I will only have one more year left. The thought of this terrified me. I have learned to have such a love for this place and the people I have met. Going to college, I never thought that I would love this place more than my hometown. And that all changed for me during my first year at Bonaventure.
Over the last two and a half years, I have only focused on my life here. I have never put too much thought into my plan. But now the end is coming sooner than I realized. In a year and a half, my life will not be what I consider “fantasy time.” The time when my friends and I go to class, have minimal responsibilities, and have the time of our lives together. When we get to have nights that consist of making dinner together and watching Dancing With the Stars together. This realization was one that made me realize it was time to plan my next chapter.
Over the last two years, I have changed my major a couple of times. Right now, I am currently set as an Educational Studies major. This is a major I feel comfortable in, with a hopeful future for myself. The reality of this next chapter will include me getting a master’s in school counseling. After this, I hope to start working as a school guidance counselor.
My college life will no longer be my reality. Instead, it will be a series of memories over four years that changed me into the woman I am going to become. Realizing the end is near has awakened me in a way. There is a part of me that wants to live in my little world away at school forever. But at the same time, I am excited to see how I blossom as a person post-college.
And although this is not the end, exactly. It is coming. And this meeting was the wake-up call I needed.