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Second Semester Slump

One of my former students is in the process of wrapping up her first semester of college and so far, she’s off to a great start.  She’s made a lot of friends and become involved in her campus community.  She was also chosen as a member of her school’s IHSA hunt seat team back in August so she’s spent a lot of time at the barn and has been learning the ins and outs of intercollegiate competition – with great results.

The only fly in the ointment, however, is that she has recently decided not to follow through on her first-choice major and it’s causing a bit of anxiety for her.  There are, of course, a lot of factors that have played into her decision, but the primary reason for her change of heart is that she’s found that she’s not as academically strong in that area as she wants to be and she doesn’t enjoy the classes dedicated to that particular major as much as she enjoys some of her other ones.  Read More