My First Meaningful Adult Experience

So far I have been an "adult" for a little over a year and one of my most meaningful experiences, wasn't all that exciting, and amazing. However, it was very important to me. This experience led to my first adult decision.

High-school was ending and I was pretty certain that I would attend the University of North Texas in the fall. I had already paid for dorms and accepted enrollment, I was prepared to attend. Then I happened to have a conversation with my culinary arts teacher that I guess you could say changed my life. I told her my future plans and expected to get the common response I got from teachers, but she gave me advice. She explained that perhaps I should go to junior college first seeing as it has a large difference in price from university.

I was stubborn at first and had so many reasons why I didn't want to do that, even though junior college was more practical I did not see it that way. I had reasons that I didn't want to stay in town due to my odd living situation and trivial high-school things. I also wanted to branch out and experience new things, as well as meet new people. My intended major was and technically still is Political Science, I felt that going to a junior college would be a hindrance on that. However, the more I thought about it I realized that college should be a long term decision that I put more thought into. In the end I made what I felt like was my first adult decision and I made the decision to stay in town for school. Occasionally I do wish I was at a university especially since all of my friends went off to universities, it felt like I had to make new friends which was kind of what I wanted at university anyway.

This adult experience was initiated by the first teacher to have an adult conversation with me. This was very important because later on I thought about my actions much more clearly thus making it one of the most meaningful adult experiences I have had.