Return On Investment

1. What would your future self recommend you do differently? 

I think that my future self would recommend that I start to eat healthier and stop eating so many desserts because diabetes runs on my dads side of the family. My future self would also recommend that I have more fun and take more risks in life.

2. What advice would the person you become, 5-10 years in the future, give you today?

My future self would advise that I go out more and have fun and to not stress about my grades so much. It would also tell myself to go hang out with people more so I have more long lasting relationships in the future. Get to know my teammates more while I’m still in college because college flies by fast.

3. What would present you advise past-you to do?

I would have advised myself to not jump into a relationship so fast and so serious my freshman year. Also, to possibly choose a college that was closer to home, not necessarily in Minnesota but states that are closer to it, since it took a long time for me to stop being homesick my freshman year. I would also advise myself to pick the Environment Health Science major my freshman year since I changed my major four times in college and now I possibly won’t be able to graduate on time.

4. Would it be similar to future you advising today you?

No, my advice to my past self is very different than my advice to my current self because I have changed a lot in my three years at college so the advice is very different. Although there is a common aspect in that I would tell myself in both future and past to have more fun and to not worry about my grades as much.

5. How much have you invested in your future self so far?

I have invested a lot in my future self, by going to college I have opened up numerous amounts of opportunities that I wouldn’t have had otherwise. By being a college athlete I have kept my body in good shape which has increased the health of my future self, as well as causing future problems since the toll of volleyball adds up after playing it since 4^th grade. I wouldn’t be surprised if in the future I had to get shoulder surgery as well as knee surgery because of volleyball.

6. How much more are you willing to invest?

I am willing to start to decrease the amount of sugar I put in my body to decrease the chances of me getting diabetes in the future. I am willing to invest more time to get the job that I want in my future.

7. Will you be leading a life that is far more fun than it is today?

This question for me is a very difficult one because college is supposed to be one of the more fun times in your life but I believe that I will have more fun in the future than I am having now. Because I will have started my life and have a real career, hopefully, and I am so excited to get married eventually and buy a house and start a family. I know that with each of these things it brings new problems and stresses but I believe that the time that I have invested in each of those things will make the payoff so much better.