Siiiiiimon Says

Yes, I realize that it has been literally months since I last updated.

I don’t apologize. I have a life and I got a girlfriend.

Ok so, for the past two years of my life I have been academically focused on attaining a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Finance. Recently however it has been dawning on me that perhaps it is just too much of an effort and time commitment for me to make and still graduate within a reasonable timescale.

Here are the facts: I am already a senior. I am currently finishing up my fourth year of college and the mainstream portrayal of college life is accurate then I should be graduating this year. I am not. What are my plans? I want to attend Law School after I graduate and perhaps work to get a MBA, but I’m leaning more heavily on the latter then the former. 

So what are my options? Like I said earlier I think its too much of a time commitment to try and go for B.B.A. I have no intention nor do I have the inclination of being a sixth year senior.

Will I regret my decision? Most likely. If anything I think this experience has taught me something important.

All to often we pour all of our hearts and efforts into something we truly believe in. There is nothing wrong with this. I think however it is important to realize and recognize the point where we need to cut our losses and back out before we get to heavily involved to back out. There is nothing wrong with realizing when we have made a mistake. I think the bigger mistake is to recognize that you’ve made one and refusing to correct it.

I think the good thing is that somewhere in the back of my mind I had already planned for the eventuality. My academic goals and plans have been flexible enough over the past couple of semesters that I can recoup my losses and reasonably make up for my lost time.

I’m going to try and shoot for a B.A. in Economics. There are several good things about this major. I can graduate in a relatively short amount of time with my classes spread out enough that I can devote a good amount of time to each class so my grades will hopefully show for it. This also means that I have a decent amount of time between now and when I plan to graduate to work on and raise my GPA to a respectable and decent level. Finally I can apply what I will get out of a Econ degree into both Law and MBA programs.

Is this rationalizing my decision? Most likely. But as I said earlier: its important to realize when you have made a mistake and to know when to cut your losses and back out of something bad.

Ok… I’m done. Just had to get that out there. And it seemed like something good to blog about.