What Are You Going to do With Your Life?

Where are you going to college? What do you want to do with the rest of your life? How are we supposed to know as juniors in high school what we want to do for the rest of our lives? We have begun the process of registering for classes for our senior year and our teachers kept asking us what we want to do in college, but what if we have no idea?

The whole registering for classes is a big production at my school due to the amount of students. First we have sheets that we have our current teachers sign with their recommendation for the course that they think that we should take next year. Each student decides if they want to do what their teacher recommends or if they want to try something else. Then we have to take those sheets and complete the online process which is selecting the courses from your sheet. We have to start doing this in January just to make sure that the councelers have enough time to figure out the schedules for everyone.

Then there is AP classes. These are classes that are taught at the college level in order to prepare students. There is just about an AP version of any subject. There is a lot of pressure put on students to take AP classes by administrators. At my school it is pretty much required to take at least one AP class before graduating because of the way that they prepare students for college. However it depends on what you want to be as to what type of AP classes if any you take.

It is really hard to think about what I am going to do after high school. People have always made all of the major decisions in our lives up until now. It is up to us to decide which college if any we want to go to and what to major in. It is even harder being the first one in your family to go to college because your family doesn't have that experience to share with you. College visits are the first things that are recommended for high school students.

There is a lot of pressure put on students now a days to grow up. What happened to enjoying high school? especially senior year? Senior year and even junior year ends up becoming very stressful instead of laid back. So, what do you want to do with the rest of your life? Thanks for reading:)