See Beyond – July 2019

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Congratulations to the class of 2019! Some of you

may be ready for college, but if you are like I was,

not so much. I decided to attend college out of

state—four-hundred miles away from home, with-

out my parents, not knowing who I was rooming

with or if I would make friends, which really wor-

ried me. But after my first year, I don’t know what

I was worried about.

Nonetheless, I am not going to lie and say it was

easy. I switched my major twice. After extensive

consideration, I finally discovered a course of

study that I love. This is what makes college great.

You may have an idea of what you want to study,

but that might change, and that change is not un-

common. Your first year is for experimenting with

different options, finding your interests, and most

importantly learning to understand yourself.

I went into college planning to become an ele-

mentary school teacher. That has changed. I have

decided to study Speech and Hearing Science. If

you know me, even a little, you would know that

it was not a subject I would ever have been like-

ly to pursue. Just hearing myself tell people my

major still shocks me a little. When I scheduled

my classes at the beginning of the year, a course

called “Orient to Ed Exceptional Child” intrigued

me. To you, that might just look like five words,

but that class opened my eyes to a subject I would

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Destiny May

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By Kristin Urabe

Your first year of college is for

experimenting with different options,

finding your interests, and most

importantly learning

to understand yourself.

July/August 2019

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