"Make a plan of what you want and how you're gonna do it and do it". Sounds easy enough right? For my boyfriend it was. Until recently I didn't realize that where I am in my life right now is where he was in his life when we starting dating almost two months ago. A little lost, a little alone, unsure of my friends, my place in college and the world, and to be honest a little scared of what's to come. It's such an isolating feeling, not being sure of your friends and so far from your family - feeling like there's no one close who really gets you. It wasn't until I talked to a friend that I realized she was in the exact same position as I was. Maybe it's the long distance relationship or realizing everyone in college tends to fit one of a couple different profiles, maybe it was overhearing too many ridiculous sorority girl conversations when you really just question who you're going to school with, but whatever it was, I realized I wasn't alone. Finally after this I was able to actually tell my boyfriend about it and explain it to him better and I was surprised to find that he knew exactly as I felt. For him he was mid sophomore year, not super involved on campus and not really happy with where his life was going. He decided to become an ambassador for the school, waking up at ungodly hours Monday mornings to share his campus with visitors and did I mention he's incredible at it from what I hear? He also decided to finally invest himself in a fraternity. Hopefully tomorrow, after over 8 weeks of pledging and not enough sleep, he'll be able to call himself a brother. He decided he was going to go after me, and he did. He won me over and there's maybe two hours of the day I'm awake that I'm not talking to him. The last thing he knew he wanted was to do better. He's focused on his grades and studies hard and sought out internships and is challenging himself and I couldn't be more proud of all he's accomplished. It's one thing to meet someone who does incredible things and has incredible drive but it's another thing to see it in action. He's inspired me to do the same, and the first step is deciding what I want, and my first decision was that it was about time I made a list of goals.
The first is to see the Israeli Business Group gain national recognition by TAMID, the Israeli Investment Group, and become an outstanding Kelley club. We've built it from the ground up and I want to see it succeed and grow to the potential I know it has.
The second is to start making connections within Kelley; to talk to professors, students, recruiters, and to give myself a presence within the school worth remembering and something to be sad about leaving behind.
The third is to not stress myself out over my grades. My academics have been important to me for as long as I can remember and I've always held myself to such high standards but now that I'm in Kelley and Honors it's about learning not about getting an A on every test and assignment. I still want to do well but I want to have a life too.
The last is to find inspiration and share it. To update this blog or write articles or do something with fashion or read more - find things I enjoy and have more of them in my life.
Also to make and maintain super cool friends of course.
And now that they're in writing on the internet there's no taking them back so wish me luck.
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