{"id":14691,"date":"2015-05-20T21:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/?p=14691"},"modified":"2015-05-21T08:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:53:55","slug":"senior-speaks-do-what-you-want-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/2015\/05\/20\/senior-speaks-do-what-you-want-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Speaks: Do What You Want To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever feel like you’re doing things without interest? To break\u00a0out of this cycle, read\u00a0Ryan Yang’s article “Do What You Want To Do”, our fourth installment of Senior Speaks.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

I think the most accurate way to describe my actions prior to IMSA is a term so aptly named \u201cCollege Whoring.\u201d In my pursuit of an IMSA career I actively sought to participate and compete in STEM related activities that would make my IMSA resume look just a little bit more impressive. I took up leadership in those groups to prove that I wasn\u2019t just another member, and I volunteered to show that I cared about service as well.<\/p>\n

Then the day I opened that letter I was\u2026 mortified. I had been waitlisted to IMSA, and I couldn\u2019t believe it. I had spent all that time working towards getting in, and I couldn\u2019t even accomplish that. I lost hope, confidence, and faith in my own abilities. I had spent all that time and effort and still couldn\u2019t get in. After getting in, I didn\u2019t know what to do. I had no ambition, no objective, and no motivation.<\/p>\n

Much of what I had done before, I didn\u2019t enjoy. What was the point of joining things I didn\u2019t enjoy? I stopped. I joined only the organizations that I could really stand behind and have fun with. Being a part of groups that I enjoyed reinvigorated me. When I returned home for a party with some friends from my old school, they told me I was a different person. I was more enjoyable to be around, and I seemed a lot more relaxed. Life was better. My IMSA life was defined not by what others expected of me, but by what I wanted. If there\u2019s anything I\u2019ve come to realize with my IMSA experience, it\u2019s that the smartest moves you can make in life are those that make you happy.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no point in sacrificing a part of your experience or life for another. Every day is another moment, another chapter, and another memory to be made. So make them exactly that. Painful, sad, and stressful times often imprint much more strongly in our minds than happy ones. Instead of struggling with clubs, people, and moments that break you down, find the ones that build you up. Just do what you want to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever feel like you’re doing things without interest? To break\u00a0out of this cycle, read\u00a0Ryan Yang’s article “Do What You Want To Do”, our fourth installment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":14704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1019],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2298],"class_list":["post-14691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imsanews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14691\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14691"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.imsa.edu\/acronym\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=14691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}