Since Freshman Year...

A lot has changed since freshman year. I mean, I'm not trying to sound all mature and above freshmen now. It just has. I guess that's what a couple of years will do to you.

For one, my entire view of life has changed. My freshman year, I was still pretty mad that I'd had to switch from my private school to public school. I didn't want a whole lot to do with my new school, and I certainly didn't think I was going to make many friends. I was planning on being so obviously miserable that my parents would succumb and send me back to the private school.

I was really into bands like Fall Out Boy, and I didn't have a lot of my own opinions. If the masses weren't a fan, neither was I. Except I did like Bright Eyes, and I have to give myself credit for that one. I wore mostly band tees and other trying really hard to be emo stuff.

My hair was a lot shorter....and blonde! That is craziness when I think about it. The way I did my hair and makeup and dressed is incredibly different than I do things now. Though that may not seem to matter, it's crazy. I was looking at pictures today with pain because of some of the stuff I'd put on.

I also had a way different plan for my life than I do now. I was pretty much set on being a teacher, and now I'm not sure that's what I want to do. I'm just too afraid of teaching a class where 80% of the students don't really care about the subject I'm passionate about. That would be too discouraging. But in ninth grade, I wanted to teach high school LA.

Now I want to do something along the lines of either fashion merchandising or journalism. (....Vogue!) I never would have seen that coming. Though I've always been known to dress out of the ordinary, fashion was never something I'd have seen myself being really interested in. But I remember that fateful day when I picked up an issue of Vogue. Sienna Miller was on the cover.

Anyway...it's just weird to think that so much has changed about me since freshman year. I've gotten more opinionated, more sure of myself, more confident....more everything!

I wonder what I'll be saying my junior year of college?