{"id":4331,"date":"2018-11-15T11:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T16:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2018-11-14T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T23:44:28","slug":"maddy-why-you-dont-have-to-do-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2018\/11\/15\/maddy-why-you-dont-have-to-do-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Maddy: Why You Don\u2019t Have To \u201cDo Everything\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coming into COM, it is tempting to compare yourself to COM\u2019s \u2018poster-children\u2019 (many of whom are COM Ambassadors, surprise surprise) who are involved in absolutely everything this school has to offer. Some students seem to climb the ranks of programs you didn\u2019t even know existed, networking and traveling and getting internships left and right, and it\u2019s easy to feel like you\u2019re making all the wrong decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While their efforts are completely commendable, at the end of the day, it comes down to passion. And whether you\u2019re passionate about a million things or just one, the important thing is that you <\/span>care deeply.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When you\u2019re in a job interview, you can ramble on and on about all the clubs you\u2019re in charge of and the internships you\u2019ve had, but at some point they\u2019re going to ask you what you\u2019re proud of. If you\u2019re interviewing for an ad agency and you spend twenty minutes passionately describing your love of marine biology, that\u2019s what will make an impression. At the end of the day, you\u2019re not a list of accolades: you\u2019re a person. There\u2019s a reason they hire people and not resumes!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The best piece of (unsolicited) advice my dad ever gave me is that college doesn\u2019t just have to be a stepping stone on the way to to a job: if you let it, it can be a place where for four years you can completely immerse yourself in learning\/doing whatever will make you feel fulfilled as a human being. And chances are, if you\u2019re in COM, you love what you do.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When I first came to COM, I had to make a ton of hard choices: do I sacrifice extracurricular theatre for an internship first semester? Do I minor in something practical or pursue a subject that endlessly fascinates me? Do I drop a club that looks great on a resume just because it\u2019s no longer making me happy?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, we\u2019ll all be making those choices for the rest of our lives. But when it comes down to it, if you choose to do what you love, and you <\/span>really<\/span> love what you do, you cannot fail. Ya gotta do it for the sake of doing it, ya dig? The weird part about success is that there\u2019s no one definition: personal success is whatever you want it to be. So do whatever you need to do, or NOT do, because it\u2019ll always be enough! Thank you for coming to my TED talk.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Coming into COM, it is tempting to compare yourself to COM\u2019s \u2018poster-children\u2019 (many of whom are COM Ambassadors, surprise surprise) who are involved in absolutely everything this school has to offer. Some students seem to climb the ranks of programs you didn\u2019t even know existed, networking and traveling and getting internships left and right, and … Continue reading Maddy: Why You Don\u2019t Have To \u201cDo Everything\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44503],"tags":[44497,44536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331"}],"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=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}