Choose Your Own Adventure

I've decided that life is a lot like a "choose your own adventure" book, less the "choose." It is definitely your own adventure... one which despite whatever self-help book you are reading at the time tells you otherwise, you have no control over. Here's why:

Girls have free agency. They can choose at any minute to stop making sense (before all you Alanis Morrissette-listening feminists dog on me for this comment, hold on... This isn't a sexist comment... Guys are just as bad... we can choose at any minute to stop paying attention, and we often do. We're all in this together.)

School, while seen as "useful" usually turns out to be nothing more than professors stroking their own egos at $300/credit. It's a fail-proof system if you ask me... They get their ego satisfied, and we get to listen to them satisfy it... and we feel like we are accomplishing something. 

(on this note, Alex Bogusy, perhaps the best creative mind in the advertising industry right now came and spoke to the advertising students Tuesday night... Keep in mind that this guy has made himself wildly successful by simply following his heart for what he loves, and working hard at it... He doesn't have a degree higher than a high school diploma.)

 Am I promoting not attending college? Of course not. Doctors, as much as they love medicine, can't do it on passion alone. The majority of degrees and fields are that way. Artistic/creative fields? Well.... Let's just say this semester was the best $2000 I've ever spent to feel like I've wasted 4 months of my life.

The plus side to the fact that life is a "(You Won't)Choose your own adventure," is that many good things come as well... I have great smelling hand soap that I bought on accident. Marvelous. Also, I am going to New York in about a week to live for 3 months and work at an ad agency... This was picked for me, and offered to me by other people. Total Blessing. I also received a full-tuition scholarship for the time I have left in school before I graduate. So, there are perks as well.

The trick, then, is to find something you love and you have total control over... Like... what type of cheese you put on your sandwich.