We commonly find ourselves thinking about the future, but somewhere along that line we forget that the future will someday become the present. Those life changing decisions that we have manipulated our brains to dismiss will someday become reality.

Like most of the entire student body, I don’t have the slightest bit of an idea of what I am going to study, what I want to do, or where I want to college. And the more I get asked, the more I realize that this is actually happening. Of course I knew that eventually I would have to think about my future and to try to obtain the slightest bit of knowledge of what I might want to do, but as of now, being a sophomore in high school, I don’t have the slightest clue as to what I want to do.

Of course, you get those “I have the next 12 years of my life figured out and written in  a color-coated step-by-step chart” kids who make everyone look and feel like crap. I don’t necessarily get filled with the expected envious rage of loathing for every person who is more organized than me, I just become more aware of the fact that my future is something that I need to be thinking about.

I believe that one of the main reasons that students have a harder time choosing a career path that they might want to follow is because of all of the classes the school requires us to take. Although it might be beneficial to some people to spend three years of their lives studying a foreign language that they are most likely going to forget by the time that the skill might come in handy, most students know this is not something they want to pursue from the get-go, yet still take the class because it is mandatory.

I agree do agree that it is very beneficial to require a student to need a minimum amount of credit in technology, fine arts, athletics, and so forth because this forces students to try something they might like, but would not have even thought twice about it without the required credits in place. Instead of requiring two to three years of a foreign language, the students should be able to decide for themselves if it’s something that they are even remotely interested in and want to continue on with the course.

Requirement and restrictions are what create limitations and boundaries on every students future plans, whether they think so or not. Most of us don’t even know what we want to partake in when we are older, so why not give us the freedom to explore our options now?