Faith plays an essential role in all of our lives.
It hasn’t hit me yet that I graduate college this Saturday.
Granted, between all of the final projects, papers, work, and time spent with friends the last couple weeks, I haven’t had much time to think about it. But with less that a week left, I’ve been doing some reflecting.
I’ve learned a lot during my four years here at Ball State University. I think one of the biggest takeaways I’ve gotten from college, though, is to have faith.
My freshman year was arguably one of the most difficult times of my life. I was homesick. I had a hard time making new friends. And maybe the biggest stressor—I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life.
Deep down, I knew I wanted to study journalism. Every day, I’d walk past the Unified Media Lab, our student newsroom here at school, and feel a tug in my heart. But I came from a really small high school where I wasn’t able to get any journalism experience or learn about the field. I was also scared to enter an industry that I thought was so tumultuous.
Call it an epiphany, but at the end of second semester, I took the leap and declared myself a journalism major. And now as I get ready to graduate college, I can say having faith in myself to study journalism here at Ball State was the best decision I ever made.
I kept faith that everything would work out—and, it did. People find faith in all sorts of places, such as in relationships and marriage. Some find it in their family or friends. And some people, like I eventually did, find it in themselves.
