Signs Along the Road

Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, once said, “If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.” For some reason when I found this quote it really made sense to me. I mean if you really think about it all of us enter college with no idea where we’re going to end up. Some of us may think we have a plan that has no holes in it and it will work out just like it sounds…Well, I’ve learned in my time here that those plans can change in an instant, or at least in my case, in a semester. I started college in the Pre-Vet area of study thinking, yes, this is how it’s going to work out: I’ll graduate high school with my Associates, get my Bachelors at NMSU in Animal Science, then I’ll head to vet school probably Colorado State and become a large animal vet specializing in horses. NMSU should take about 2 years seeing how I got all my pre-reqs done, then another 4 years for vet school…I thought I had it all planned out and that was going to be my life. Well, life had a different plan for me and turns out Chemistry and I didn’t get along and I refused to put myself through that torture for however many semesters I needed to get all my required courses out of the way. Well now I’m in my 2^nd year here at NMSU (the so called year I was suppose to be done), and I still have 3 more semesters after this one. So I’ll actually end up spending 3 and a half years here studying Animal Science within the Equine Industry. What I’ll do after this I’m not real sure, maybe get a job with a racing commission, or maybe just maybe I’ll end up in Kentucky studying racetrack management. The future is a little hazy for me, but in all honesty I would rather not know exactly what I’m going to do after this, because I know that some of the best road trips are the unplanned ones taking you down roads you never would’ve imagined. So if there’s a possibility that something’s just not working out for you, read the road signs because at some point you’ll end up just where you wanted to be without ever knowing. Enjoy the drive of life, because you never know where the trip will take you J.

-Always,

Aggie Girl Hannah