{"id":4643,"date":"2019-11-15T04:07:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=4643"},"modified":"2019-11-22T04:08:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:08:20","slug":"josee-i-am-a-senior-and-i-have-no-idea-what-i-am-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2019\/11\/15\/josee-i-am-a-senior-and-i-have-no-idea-what-i-am-doing\/","title":{"rendered":"Josee: I Am a Senior and I Have No Idea What I Am Doing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which is totally fine! But if you had told Freshman Josee that I would be in this situation, I think she would have a conniption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In my first year, I thought I had things figured out to a T. I would get my dual-degree in journalism and political science. According to my ten-year plan, I would intern at places like the Boston Globe, CNN, and the New York Times while still working on my pre-law concentration. Of course, my first-year mind was realistic. There was no way I would go straight into law school after BU, I had to get my masters (of course!) and have 3-5 years of practical experience.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t regret having those aspirations and dreams. They helped push me to work hard and keep going. They gave me a chance to work towards something.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What I didn\u2019t recognize, what I couldn\u2019t recognize, from the outset, was how much things would change. Now, I still had high aspirations all of college, but I wasn\u2019t used to evolving those passions and dreams and letting go of ones that I grew out of.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I had my heart set on becoming an international correspondent for the BBC. I even took on an extra IR bachelors so that I could get \u201cdeep background\u201d for my dream job. I was in this for the long haul.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But, after taking IR courses, joining clubs, and interning abroad, I realized that I had other passions and skills I could hone in on. It was the hardest identity crisis of my college career when I realized that I didn\u2019t have to be a journalist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It took a lot of time, a lot of trial and error, and a lot of self-reflection to \u201cgive up\u201d my old dream for a new perspective. But I\u2019m so glad I did.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m just a senior with no clue where she will end up – but with the self-assurance that it will be an adventure nonetheless. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Which is totally fine! But if you had told Freshman Josee that I would be in this situation, I think she would have a conniption.\u00a0 In my first year, I thought I had things figured out to a T. I would get my dual-degree in journalism and political science. According to my ten-year plan, I … Continue reading Josee: I Am a Senior and I Have No Idea What I Am Doing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44460],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643"}],"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=4643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4643\/revisions\/4644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}