What Went Wrong

So this is what I think went wrong with my college career.

1. Right Major/Wrong Time
I received my BA in Sports Management and Communications. Freshman year I wanted to be a sports agent, not really thinking about and not really abreast about how all of that works and what it means to be a sports agent. So I applied to the Division of Kinesiology which housed along with Sports Management, physical education, movement science, and athletic training. It may have dawn on those in charge that this particular concentration would serve better in the business school or maybe a joint hook up with sports management and the relevant b-school classes (which we had but the b-school did not want us taking classes with their students). It was painfully aware that this major was tailored made for athletes who either wouldn't make it to the pros or needed a back up plan. This was not set up for students who wanted to really do something business related in the sporting industry. We were the butt of many jokes because most of the football team were sports management majors and a lot of the classes weren't really dumbed down for the athletes but weren't really that hard

There was no clear way to have a concentration like advertising or marketing or economics because they only offered one class on each. If I took advertising and sports adveritsing and marketing and sports marketing does that make a good candidate for a marketing career??? I don't think so but I took all four of those classes as well as sport economics and racism and sports and sport psychology, and sport law, basically a hodgepodge of sporting topics. I don't believe anything prepared me for any kind of career path.

Fast forward to my junior year and a problem with b-school attitude with us taking their classes but our classes should be wide open for their students and the Kines directors decide well we'll shut them out and make our program more competitive. Too late for me to partake in this wonderful restructuring that allow for more specific track of study. They added more requirements that in my opinion provided a better background for the higher level classes. It was an all around great change that my class was not apart of. So I graduated with a B.A. in Sports Management and no clue on what to do next.

2. Not Being Active Enough
I didn't join any major groups, didn't participate in anything really. I was just there taking classes and going home every weekend. I look back at all the different programs I could have joined all the contacts I could have made and I lost out on a lot. I was too busy trying to keep up with the few friends I have at home to be worried about the people on campus and what they were doing. And now I don't even talk to those people I was coming home to see all the time. I could have had a great college life but chose to do otherwise. I hated college. But now that I think about it, it is all my own fault. I always say life is what you make it and I made Michigan a terrible experience.


Well when I first started this I had a longer list but I've forgotten most of it now so I'll leave it at these two and maybe a part two later.

So I'm out!