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I am going absolutely crazy trying to make this decision. When I first started college, I wanted to study psychology. I didn't want to be a psychologist, but I wanted to study psychology, at least starting off. Then, something happened. I came to the realization almost halfway through college that I wanted to be a teacher. Since I started college, I have been through quite a few things. The day before starting, my parents told me I was adopted and this year, my cousin, who was more like my brother, passed away at 19 from cancer. I have also lost two pets. Those of you who have pets can understand that it's quite difficult. So, last semester, all I wanted to do was finish school. I just wanted to move on to grad school or go to another university. I just didn't want to be there, at my school, longer than I had to. And, switching my major to education at that point would have added an extra year on to college.
I'm sure that if the death of my cousin would no thave occured, I probably would have stayed with education. Looking back, I actually loved the classes and have a strong passion for being a teacher. But, I was very, very depressed. I just didn't even want to deal with school anymore and wanted to be done with it all. I just know myself and I know I would have stayed. My cousin was also so excited and proud of me becoming a teacher that he would have encouraged me to stay. Before he passed away, he told me about how proud he was about me becoming a teacher and that he knew it was the right choice. I feel like in those couple of months after his passing, I was in a trance. I was just on autopilot. Now that I'm starting to see things clearer, I know that this is the path I want to go on, but I'm somehow deterred. I hope that you all can tell me what you think I should do.
I decided that psychology would have me graduating this coming summer. For me, that was too long at the time. With Sociology (and minoring in psychology), I would graduate this Decemeber. So, I decided to do that. Now, I regret it because I have no passion for sociology. At least, with psychology, I felt like was doing something for myself and had an interior motive. So, the following are my options.
A) Finish and graduate with sociology this December. Get a second bachelors in psychology and receive another diploma this summer. Then, start grad school in the Fall for elementary education (a masters program that leads to teacher certification). Nobody is rooting fo this, except me, because I feel like if I finish psychology, I won't feel like a failure since I'm doing what I planned on doing in college (undergrad) in the first place.
B) Forget about psychology. Just start grad school this spring for elementary education, that leads to certification. I have already been accepted to this program. I can decide if I want to start this spring, summer, or fall. This is the program that my boyfriend, grandparents, and aunt think I should do.
C) Forget about the master's program. Just do another bachelors in elementary or early childhood education. Forget about the masters for now, and do it later on. But, maybe getting another bachelors will be a good idea. My mom likes this idea. She thinks it will be cheaper than going go grad school. She isn't paying for this, so don't base it on that! I don't like this idea too much because it's going to take longer than the masters program and I need to make up quite a few pre-requisites that are level 1000 and 2000 courses and I just see that becoming more frustrating. Psychology would be a semester or 2. This would take like 3 more years!!!
Thoughts??? PLEASE TELL ME. Some of you can speak from experience and I just need another person to give me advice.
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First, you aren't a failure if you don't do what you originally set out to do. The only way to fail is to not be happy with the final outcome. People do things they regret out of fear of feeling like a failure and in that, they fail in some way. Believe me! Don't let that voice in your head that says, "You'll have failed!" dictate your future. It's not always right.
Second, I imagine putting off something like a masters degree makes it more more difficult. The longer you put something off, the harder it is to will yourself to accomplish it.
Having said that, I'm not going to tell you what the best option is as you only know that. Just look at where you'll be at the end of school and how happy you'll be with yourself then. Ignore everyone else and ignore how much time/effort it'll take. Go with what you think will benefit you the most and will make you happiest.
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