Aparecium

For the first time in my life, I am actually looking forward to the future. For starters, I see one. Up until about a few days ago, it was cloudy. I couldn't, for the life of me, tell you what I was going to be doing five years from now. It's not as vague anymore.

My plan was to major in biology and see what happened from their. As the school year started to get closer and closer, I started thinking more and more about what I was going to do. Ideally, I wanted to go to veterinary school. I even started recently volunteering for an animal rescue that specializes in the Pit Bull breed and its mixes. I just think they are some of the sweetest dogs, but that is besides the point. The key word in that sentence is "recently." I have failed to prepare myself to stand out in the competitive field of applying for a medical school. I lack volunteer work, i lack excellent grades, i lack the prestige that school look for. The passion is there (and I'm going to continue volunteering for that very reason) but schools want to see more than that. As I get older, I'm becoming more and more realistic in my views. I'm not giving up on my dreams, per se; merely adapting and finding my place in the world.

I changed my major based on this revelation. I'm not settling. I am going to pursue something that comes so much more naturally to me than science. I am going after accounting. I love numbers, and math, and I'm a jew when it comes to money, so it only seems natural! Besides... I can make more money out of school as an accountant... and I'm all about the cash. For the first time in my upper education, I'm finally on a path toward something. It wasn't a rushed decision! I see so many people making rushed decisions and regretting them later on. I'm glad I spent three years at Moorpark, exploring my options. Because of that, it's going to take me a little bit longer to earn my degree than some of my peers, but I'll be happier than half of them.

Sadly, It's going to take me a little bit longer to earn my degree simply because I have to take 77 more credits before I can graduate. I can't jump straight into any of the majors because they are impacted. That means I have to have a certain GPA and complete a series of prep courses before I can declare the major. I meet the GPA requirements (2.9 for business and I have a 3.0) but I don't have the prep courses completed and I have to spend two semeseters completing that. That was the only negative to spending three years at Moorpark not knowing what I wanted my major to be. I completed all of my lower division undergraduate general education classes, BUT, I didn't prepare for any of the prep courses. Thankfully, I completed the calc and the stats needed so I can focus on a bunch of 3 unit courses that should be easy since they are mainly introductory courses. This will allow me to raise my GPA over the next two semesters in order to reach a GPA that will allow me to join one of honors organizations maybe or the SAS (Student Accounting Society) and increase my network for job offers after college. This means that I won't be graduating in Spring 2010 like I had hoped. Instead, I will probably graduate the following semester, in the fall (a year and a half after my HS graduating class!) I just have to get over the fact, which I slowly am.

My life has direction, and it excites me! Its letting me look forward to the future, which I never really have. 2008 has been a really rough year for my family and I, and next year should be very promising! I'm going to Colorado in January to visit a very dear friend. School should be going well. I should hopefully have a new job (I have an interview on thursday at GameStop... three months after I applied! lol. Its a less stressful environment than the theatre I'm at, so I'm going to try and kill at that interview. I NEED this job.), and who knows what the year will hold. My life is bounding forward and it's about time.

Like a painted wild mustang, flyin' out across the open range...

Matt