{"id":1742,"date":"2015-03-20T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2015-03-18T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T21:17:00","slug":"sara-take-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/03\/20\/sara-take-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara: Take Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wish someone told me this three years ago when I started BU. That\u2019s not to say I didn\u2019t take risks \u2013 I traveled across the country to LA and interned in a city where I didn\u2019t know a soul. The next summer I took an internship I knew I wouldn\u2019t be in love with because I thought it would be a good life experience. And you should do this too. Push your boundaries because you\u2019ll never know how much you love something, or maybe don\u2019t love something at all, if you don\u2019t try.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, what no one told me is this \u2013 don\u2019t be afraid to do something just because you want <\/b>to do it\u2026.not because it\u2019ll look good on your resume or\u00a0 because you\u2019re trying to keep up with all the COM kids (yes, that unspoken pressure). If you want to take the summer off, work a mindless job and take the time to figure out if PR\/Advertising\/Film\/Journalism is really what you love, then do it. Work on your own creative projects. Research the things you love outside of your chosen field. If you can\u2019t take one more day of excel spreadsheets and fact checking, then give yourself a break. Don\u2019t let the pressures of college and racking up internships stop you. Or maybe you do find an internship that sounds really cool, but it\u2019s not like anything you\u2019ve done before and you don\u2019t know if you\u2019re qualified. Well, this is your sign \u2013 DO IT!<\/p>\n

In seven very short weeks I\u2019ll be graduating college, and to be honest, I\u2019ve never been on the PR agency boat that a lot of other students seem to be on. I want to do something completely different with my degree and I\u2019ve finally come to peace with doing what I really want, instead of just taking that agency job I know I could get. Sure it\u2019s scary, but haven\u2019t the most successful people taken risks? After all, we\u2019re young and have been given the privilege that maybe our parents and certainly our grandparents didn\u2019t have to embark on a journey where we find out what makes us tick. It sounds cheesy, but you know it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

My only hope is that you remember that its ok to do something different. Follow your heart. Take risks.<\/p>\n

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I wish someone told me this three years ago when I started BU. That\u2019s not to say I didn\u2019t take risks \u2013 I traveled across the country to LA and interned in a city where I didn\u2019t know a soul. The next summer I took an internship I knew I wouldn\u2019t be in love with … Continue reading Sara: Take Risks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}