Do What You Want In Life, Never Settle

So I'm halfway through my Junior year of college (although I wish I was a Freshman again), and I have had a quarter-life crisis. Unfortunately I have been really unmotivated in class lately and I have realized why. Currently I'm an accounting major with a minor in finance. The reason why I chose accounting going into college was because I took a few courses in high school and did extraordinarily well so I figured that would be a good field to major in. After my first few accounting classes last year, I was still really excited but this year after sitting through half a semester of two more accounting classes, I began to think maybe accounting isn't for me. After going to a few interviews for accounting internships, I started to seriously think of a change of major. This was a huge deal to me since I still want to graduate on time, but at the same time want to be doing something that makes me happy. After thinking about this for a while, I decided that I need to do something that works with people. Friends, family and co-workers have always told me I have great interpersonal skills and my personality would be wasted sitting behind a desk everyday crunching numbers. I never really thought much about it until now. I love speaking to students and being part of something that has an effect on students' lives. This made me really think about education. I never really thought about teaching because I knew their salaries were never comparable to an accountants, but after deeper thought, I realized I rather be happy with my job and get paid less, then dread going to work and hate life, even if it meant I would make more every year. The only problem with becoming a teacher is that I'm currently enrolled in the business school and if I were to switch majors now, I would be on track to graduate a year late. I could take an alternate route in getting accredited to become a teacher in a public school, but that would also take a long time and I would still be stuck with a bachelor's degree in business. This made me think of a few other options.

Being a Trustee Ambassador, I began to think about college recruiting and being a counselor. The good thing about being a college counselor is that I could be one with a business degree. Furthermore, I could get my Master's in higher education and/or college admission counseling. I definitely want to hold a Master's degree to help further my career, and I could definitely see me working in an admissions office for a while. This also made me think a little further in that I love working for Suffolk now, so hopefully someday there will be an open admission position that I could apply for. If I ever got the chance to work for Suffolk, I would definitely take it right away. But for now my plan is this:

- Graduate from Suffolk University with a bachelor's degree in Management.
(I'm switching to a management major because it's the best chance of me having the highest GPA possible, which will be crucial in applying to grad school)
-Find an open admissions position in a college/university in the Boston area
-Attend Graduate school for my Master's in Education
-Eventually work for Suffolk University

You're probably thinking that I'm crazy and you're totally correct, to a point. Being happy in life is something that I value and everyone should too. Working for an accounting firm day in and day out was not going to make me happy, even though I was good at it when I tried. But clearly I haven't been motivated lately to try and my grades have shown that. I think I'm doing the right thing now and I'm really excited.

Advice to prospective students/incoming Freshman:
-Don't feel like you have to choose a major right away, definitely pick a major that you know you want to be a part of
-Test out different fields of study you might be interested in
-Don't always think if you know what you want to do, you're all set, it may not end up that way
-Ask as many questions as possible about possible majors
-Do what makes you happy, don't let others tell you what to do

This has definitely been the most philosophical, indepth blog I've ever written.

-CG

Seasons Change and Life Moves On

The seasons are definitely changing here in Boston. I was driving in the suburbs with my roommate the other day and we were noticing how all the leaves were changing. I remember when my homework was to bring in different color leaves to glue to a piece of paper. I would give anything to have homework like that again. Living in downtown Boston sometimes makes you forget about fall because there just aren't enough trees around. I love fall, but it definitely makes me frustrated because I know winter is right around the corner.

So golf season has ended, it was a decent season. Unfortunately I had to miss my Conference Championship due to an admissions event, however playing at the cape was really fun this year. We had a great team at the cape, and even though the weather was really bad, we still had a lot of fun.

I have been extremely busy with school and work that I barely have time to breathe. My weekends have been packed with golf, work, and friends. Since turning 21, my bank account has been struggling big time. I'm beginning to think I need to pick up another job. My friend Nicole just started working at Banana Republic and told me they're still hiring so I might try for a job there. The nice thing is that you get 50% off anything you buy at Banana Republic or the Gap.

I finally traded in my BlackBerry for an iPhone this weekend. My roommate and I have been thinking about getting one for a while and this weekend we finally did it. We both left Verizon at the same time and joined AT&T. Not going to lie, for the money, the iPhone is the way to go. It's actually the same amount for a BlackBerry plan at Verizon than for an iPhone plan at AT&T. My roommate and I decided to get a family plan with AT&T (we said we were cousins) which made it cheaper for us each month. Since I got my iPhone on Sunday, I have not been able to put it down at all. I'm truely addicted to it already.

Celtics opening night tonight at 7 against the Cavs!

-CG

I'm Getting Old...

So I've been 21 for almost two months now, and I never realized until now that I'm getting old. I've been to a dozen 21st birthdays in the past few weeks and its made me realize, all my friends are getting older, which means I am. Scary.

My roommate turned 21 two days ago which has turned this week into quite the adventure. My friend Allison turned 21 last night. My best friend from home turned 21 two days ago as well, its crazy! Last night I went to the karaoke bar for Allison's birthday, I'm definitely not a good singer. But that's the point of karaoke right? I think its more fun when people aren't good at it rather than people being amazing singers intimidating everyone else.

I have an interview with Walter and Shuffain P.C. on Monday and I'm really nervous yet anxious at the same time. Funny how those two emotions always collide with each other. I'm definitely nervous because it's my first real interview for an accounting job, yet I'm kind of excited/anxious for it too.

The first golf tournament of the season is this weekend down in Connecticut. It's at the same course last year where our team did really well. I'm excited to go back home for the weekend, but unfortunately I won't be seeing any of my family. My dad is currently roadtripping it to the West coast. He left back in the end of September and won't be back until the end of October. Lucky him. My mom unfortunately doesn't have the time to come see me play so unfortunately no one will be following me on the course like usual. Oh well.

I just became a member of the zipcar community and it is awesome! Zipcars are cars you can rent by the hour or for the day and use them at your disposal. There are zipcars all over the city of Boston and all you do is pay a simple membership fee. So far I've only driven the BMW, (yeah that's right). I drove it to practice the other day because I couldn't make practice on time, and also to Sonic in Peabody. Yes there is a Sonic in New England. How crazy is that?? But zipcars are really convenient and even though I have my car parked in Watertown, it's a lot easier for me to use zipcars for small things here in the city.

Now I get to decorate the Welcome Center with Kristina for our fall events. Sorry Rach, you missed out! :)

-CG