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Someone said once that 'life is what happens when you're busy making other plans'. A prophetic statement, and one that requires a little thought to fully understand. I'm 24 years old, graduated from high school in 1993, and from university in 1997. This all seems like ancient history to me, and I have begun to feel older with each passing second. 'But you're only 24,' people will say. The problem is, where I'm standing right now is light-years away from where I thought I would be at this age. My freshman year at U.P.E.I. was everything I thought it would be - a chance to express myself in an academic community built to serve my specific academic goals. I experimented in business, science, and arts classes, and afterward thought I had found a niche in the study of english. For the next two years I devoted myself to becoming a professor of english, planning for graduate studies after I obtained my bachelor's degree. However, in the final semester of my fourth year, my interest in teaching vanished. I can't put my finger on the exact cause, but the idea no longer appealed to me. At that moment, I thought that I had followed a dream and failed, and therefore would never dare to dream of anything again. Now, in writing this, I have started to realize that a dream never dies - it only changes. In this program here at Holland College I have met people I would never have known, had my dream to become a professor been realized. The most important thing is, I can always follow that dream again if I choose to, and will be a much better person for having tried twice. Life does happen when you're busy making other plans. There will always be roadblocks, side-streets, U-turns, and forks in the road. We learn from experience, and experience is never wasted.
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