Many people who have gone through college know that it's not any sort of easy. It's a struggle, I don't care if you are a liberal arts major who studies "Advanced Basket Weaving techniques" or an Electrical Engineeer. This shit is tough.
Why?
Because we rise to the situation we are placed in. It's a basic survival technique, and to those who think that whatever major they are in is too tough to go on and they must drop out or switch, let me give you some food for thought.
Your ancestors, at some point in history, came from a time where they had to adapt to survive and nobody was going to help them do it. They had to get food, and provide for their families, or else you just wouldn't exist. This was a time where people learned through necessity and conditioning to collect food, build fire, all that stuff.
I think that this school of thought can be translated into school too. How many times have you thought, "I can't do this, this is impossible?" Too many times, it happens to the best of us. Now here's a secret that they don't want you to know, but I will tell you.
Your future bosses, after your first job, will not care what you got in High School or in College. It's just for your first job.
BUT WHY
Cause employers wanna see how high your pain threshold is. They wanna know if you are going to crack under the pressure or if you are going to be able to take whatever they give you, big or small, and weather the storm.
Think about it this way, if you were hiring people would you go for the guy who's confidence level was so low that he switched out of "law" to "culinary" at the first sign of trouble?
No!
They want the guy who see's this daunting wave hurtling toward him, towering stories above, and looks to the side like "Are you serious?!" and then just says after a few short seconds of deliberation " eh fuck it", grabs onto something, and rides it out like a boss.
Not the guy using his girlfriend as a shield, hoping that she'll protect him from this dooms-day tsunami as he sucks his thumb in the fetal position.
College is the time in a person's life where he decideds how serious he's going to be taken for the rest of his life, not by his peers, or his family, but by himself. If he knuckles under and gives into defeat because he thinks that that is an option. He is basically setting himself up for that for the rest of his life. Subconciously he'll always have that to fall back on whenever things go wrong. Like a reverse crutch.
Q:Why did my wife leave me?
Guy who met challenge: Cause she was an idiot, I'm going to move on and make my life work
Guy who gave up: Cause I suck at everything I try
Try? Did you really try?
If you've ever played sports, or seen any sort of sports movie you're probably familiar with the phrase
" At any time, it's the guy in the fight that's willing to die that is going to win that fight"
Drive can compensate for ability in a huge way.
So when you think about college, don't just think about it as an oppertunity to explore what field of study you want to be in, think of it as an oppertunity to be pushed, and to push yourself to expand your limits.
People's limit's are defined only by themselves.
If I want something, it is only a matter of how many times I am willing to try it, that dictates whether or not I will succeed.
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