2nd Year

From all those last minute essays, those late night study sessions, and that quick and easy meal that's around 20 cents. Sleepless nights are actually wild nights; when you come in with your Starbucks frappuccino with a double (or triple) shot of espresso. You want an A in Psychology class but can't understand why your professor won't boast it from 89 to a 90 percent. Then after your your final grades are in, you remember that your first year of college is already done. Now you're on year 2, with nothing but that gut feeling in your stomach telling you, “How can you pay back all you student loans from last year, when you have another year to pay for?” Then you remember your major.. you want to be a neurosurgeon. That takes way more than another year. In fact, that takes a bachelor’s degree and then applying to medical school for another four more years. After that you must be in a residency program for 6 years. At this point, you contemplate your degree, because you only have another year before you officially claim your major. You tell yourself, “Maybe I’ll be better off as a music major...” Then you wonder how you will make any money if you switch to music, you start to think of ways on how to even find a job in that degree, “ Should I move to California.... Nashville.... New York City?” Then after asking yourself all these questions, you go back and rewind and think about how much debt you will be in after deciding you want to be a neurosurgeon. “ There goes my shot of wanting to move out of my parents house by 21. Now I will never be able to buy my house before i’m thirty because i’ll be in sooooo much debt.” Then you remember you have another year to declare your major...