17 and graduating

Hey, I’m 17 years old and I’m graduating highschool in early June, and all of a sudden I feel like I’m getting hives all the time worrying about it. At first it’s excitement but soon, people or even just myself remind me it’s not gonna be that great at all. I’m going into Business and Hospitality, but my passion is a lot to do more with that arts over everything. I would change my major but I don’t quite know… I don’t know if I am going to Community College for free or not yet, but I’m also worried about transport there. Im not only a meh driver but I haven’t even gotten my license yet… I’m beyond worried about the way there and back… Not to mention overall, I don’t know what I wanna do. I feel so much pressure to transfer after these two years of community college but currently I’m pretty set on doing otherwise. I can’t stand the idea of debt, but also worry that I won’t get far enough to succeed. I know this is a lot…

Shazzy

Hey Kiddo! You know those nagging thoughts about driving and changing majors. That’s your soul telling you what to do. Go get that license! Change that major or you’ll make yourself suffer for so many years!

rahma

Hello, I am very glad you chose to open up and talk about it. Unfortunately, I have no experience in studying in USA so I can't tell you about it a lot. But I am 30 years old so I have a bit of experience, I can share. For me I wanted to get to art but my mom told me that art can be learned freely so I should choose something else to make a career, so that I have two things art and my career. Which was very wise of her. I got into teaching because I love it. Now I want to change my career to ML. So it is totally fine to change what you want and not knowing what do you want to be. That is first, second I want to tell that my mom's advice is good and useful as I will always have art but I do recommend doing a double major if that is possible, it wasn't at mine. But it will give you a lot more structure and commitment than learning on your own. Hope this is useful, and sorry for the long answer.

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