A Week in NYC

A week in NYC makes people think. Think of a million things, sometimes all at once. That city has the potential to show you everything from the rich to the poor and from the hardworking to the drug addicts living on a subway. You also get to see famous people in between of millions of people who look the same and others giving everything they have to live a dream. This made me think a little of where I stand and who I want to be. Do I want to be the artist at central park making money from charity doing what I love or the surgeon living on 5th street? I’m currently studying to be an engineer. This major is not all that easy considering that I could of majored in a million things that would make my life easier and certainly less stressful. Another engineer student wrote a week of her busy life as an engineer: A Week from Hell. If most engineering students agree that majoring in engineering is not only stressful but sometimes seems like impossible, why do we keep trying? Well, I’m almost done with my second year as an engineer and I’ve seen too many of my classmates drop out from the major. It’s not because they are not smart enough, but because their priorities and needs are somewhere else. They could have easily graduated with an engineering degree but their will didn’t let them. This is because it doesn’t really matter who you are, but what you want. For example, I’m everything but decisive. It takes time to analyze and consider every option for me to make a decision, but when that decision is reached I stick to it to the end because I know that’s what I want to do. I think that is what has helped me endure all of the bumps on the road of a difficult academic life. Whatever the decision is, make sure is made one hundred percent yours because that’s the only way you will be happy doing whatever you are doing.