Ryan: Blogging for a grade.

Bucket List My life so far has been rather floaty. Early in my adulthood, I made the choice to just go with the flow . When I graduated high school, I started working in the same industry as my father; no thought was given to the future or if it was what I wanted to do. I just took the path of least resistance because nothing was needed to start. After a while, I did start to actively steer my life a little. I got married, bought a house, and had a child. All of these seemed to work out so well. I must be extremely lucky because these are of the largest decisions in life and I just found myself here without planning. I started college without a plan and changed my major twice. Now I am ready to graduate soon, start a new career, and my daughter is almost ready to start school herself; it may be late but it is definitely time to plan. What should I plan for? As a novice in being an adult and planning, I think a bucket list is a good place to start. My bucket list will have thin...

Steven Colbert at Northwestern University https://www.cnn.com              Anny Murphy Paul’s article “Secrets of the Most Successful College Students” cites multiple revered people that have advice on ways to reconsider how success in college can be defined. I have experienced some of these mindsets with both positive and negative effects.        Anny Murphy Paul claimed that successful students “get comfortable with failure”. This advice sited to come from Steven Colbert might be good advice for some people, but not for me. Constant iteration following failure can lead to extraordinary breakthroughs and superior results, but in my case, failure just ended my hopes and dreams. I may have become a little too comfortable with failure. I had aspirations for my time in college to result in a career as a mechanical engineer. Being comfortable with failure led to me failing calculus three times. This...