Work harder. I'm in a similar situation: 8th semester 5th year Biomedical Engineering major (took a co-op that I quit), Chinese, had to tell parents I'm not tr

Work harder. I'm in a similar situation: 8th semester 5th year Biomedical Engineering major (took a co-op that I quit), Chinese, had to tell parents I'm not trying for med school anymore, took about 3 years. I took the MCATs last year anyway and I'm still satisfying med school requirements to "keep my options open" but mostly just to satisfy my parents. I have no idea what I'm going to do after college though, but I'm not too scared. I have a few options but it's a matter of time to see which direction things go in. Why work harder? Because your JOB right now is to figure out what you want to do with your life, not just job, that's your LIFE right now. So go all out, try things until you fall in love (or so you fall in love?). As for losing grip, just remember that nobody knows what they're doing, and everything will be alright in the end. Everyone's looking for happiness, but you're well enough to be on HN and you live in the US, you almost have to try to fail at life in this country. If all else fails, try this book: http://www.pobronson.com/index_what_should_I_do_with_my_life.htm http://www.pobronson.com/index_what_should_I_do_with_my_life... It doesn't have any answers, but by listening to other people's stories, you find that it's totally okay to do random crazy things with your life, and things turn out alright more often than not.