{"id":3147,"date":"2016-03-20T19:20:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T19:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/?p=3147"},"modified":"2016-03-20T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T19:21:18","slug":"doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/whatwedo\/2016\/03\/20\/doubts\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh crap. I\u2019m starting to have doubts about going here. This isn\u2019t good.<\/span><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t get me wrong, UPS is a great place. I love the small liberal arts environment. The professors and people here are amazing. The small size is just small enough for me to know a lot of people but large enough so that I\u2019m always meeting new people. It\u2019s also pretty awesome that my room is like a 2 minute walk from the SUB.<\/span><\/p>\n

But, I realized something recently. I want to pursue a career in the digital arts. I want to do Graphic Design. And UPS doesn\u2019t offer anything remotely close to either of those. Maybe I should have gone somewhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n

What caused this revelation? A little while ago, I started designing a Geofilter for Snapchat for my fraternity. I finished a draft and sent it to a friend of mine who\u2019s a sophomore at the University of Southern California studying Graphic Design. She gave me a ton of really good suggestions, most of which I ended up implementing in the final design.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then we got to catching up, because we hadn\u2019t spoken in months. She asked me what I was majoring in and I said Geology. She was surprised because of the circumstances that we met in. We met last summer at a technology summer camp that we both taught at. I taught Game Design and Engineering while she taught Digital Photography and Photoshop (Don\u2019t be too impressed, it was a lot less glamorous than it sounds).<\/span><\/p>\n

She told me to just keep my mind open. Majors, classes, activities, interests, they could all change in an instant. Life will never go as planned and I shouldn\u2019t just limit myself so early on. <\/span><\/p>\n

And I couldn\u2019t agree with her more. I mean, this year alone, I decided to switch from Environmental Policy and Decision Making to Geology and joined Rugby, my first team sport ever alongside dozens of other changes. Who\u2019s to say there won\u2019t be more change in my future? As the saying goes, \u201cThe only thing that is constant is change\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

So maybe Geology isn\u2019t for me. I mean, it\u2019s an interesting topic that I\u2019d love to learn more about, but my real passion lies in technology and media. But I can\u2019t study that here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thankfully, there is a bit of a silver lining. I can apply to be the Director of Marketing and Outreach or a Graphic Designer for ASUPS. Both will allow me to pursue my interests in graphic design while still studying Geology. So maybe things aren\u2019t as bad as I made them out to be at first.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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