I Want To Pursue My Accounting Degree

One can never tell what he truly wants unless faced with many opportunities and has tried them hard enough. That’s definitely true, from what I have been through. Different from most other students, I didn’t start my accounting study until the second undergraduate year. And that’s exactly the time when I know that I finally find the thing I would devote to. Needless to say, that was quite a phenomenal change both academical and psychological, since the major I used to take was Chinese linguistics and literature. Once words and creativity were my priority rather than statistics and objectivity.

I really cherish the years I spent in those two fields. Learning literature moulds my character and enriches my life with reading, which also opened …show more content…
According to our university’s rule, one has to start over the entire undergraduate study if he switches the major. I accepted it and went back to the first year again. However, I worked so hard that I took 2 years’ module in one year’s time, and finally passed all the exams and managed to skip a year, straightly go to the third year. I won’t say how unbearable the workload there was during that period, for truly nothing is too difficult if you put your heart into it, especially when you are doing exactly what you have passion for. I made it, and even got a membership in the honor school of our university, which only selects the top 1% in each school.

Now I am taking my final year as an exchange student at the University of Southampton. Studying abroad at this moment is more of an opportunity rather than a challenge for me. It gives me a new perspective to review the past and consider what I want to do in the not so distant future. I am getting along quite smoothly here and it seems not so hard as I imagined before, though accounting standards in UK are somewhat different from those in China. Life is wonderful and I can see even more possibilities now, at Britain doing