In June 2005, Steve Jobs, creator of Mac, Pixar, and Next shared Stanford's commencement speech. My favorite aspect about his speech was when he pointed out that you don't know have to know where you are going in life, and that you'll have to trust that things will all connect in the end. He was a college drop out and to kill time he would sit in calligraphy classes offered at his school. From those classes he learned about different fonts which eventually lead to him designing the different type faces in the Mac. He probably felt like such a failure when he dropped out but in the end it was for the better. ""You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward [. . .] Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well-worn path."
These words assure me that it's okay if don't know what courses I'm going to take in junior year, or what job I will end up having after graduation. It encouraged me to just take in and focus on the things I am doing right now, even if I dread some parts of it.
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