As children we are encouraged to dream big, that we are capable of accomplishing anything that we set our mind to. I can remember when I was younger that I bounced around from wanting to be an astronaut (I super loved space oh and Pluto was and still is my favorite planet I don't care what NASA says its still a planet in my eyes) to wanting to be a doctor and working at St. Judes Children's Hospital in Memphis, TN because I wanted to help sick children and find the cure for cancer. I always knew I wanted to go to college but I had plenty of time until that time actually came up. Fast forwarded to high school, hmm now I have to actually start thinking about this figment thing called college and figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life. We supposedly being an astronaut takes years of school and work and that didn't seem quite appealing to me at the time, the same goes with being a doctor, and I thought I had maybe found my true passion: teaching. Yes so all was planned I would help lead the next generation of students to do and accomplish great things within our world. Hmm well that plan took another turn when I was accepted into this summer program for Emerging Technologies and Engineering, whatever that meant. I'll back track a tad bit, I guess I was good at math or something I think what happened is I was just better than everyone in my class and I paid attention when my teacher spoke (my high school at that time was an inner city school where they were sometimes just glad to get people to pass and to stay quite through class) anyways I had never really thought of someone really great at math or science I was just good at school. So my math teacher gave me this application and said I should do it and my parents greatly nudged me to do so also so I applied, and received that nice single piece of paper in the mail saying that " We greatly appreciate your application but we are sorry to inform you that we don't think you are great enough for such a program so you haven't been accepted" Yes they say it nicer then that but that's always how I feel. Anyways no hard feelings I really didn't want to go, oh yea and I kinda forget to inform my parents of this little fact thought it would just go away. Anyways a few days later my mom got a phone call saying I was accepted (go figure) and so then I went, (really against my will) I got there and there were all these really nerdy and smart kids there I felt like a fish out of water, remember I never had viewed myself as someone good at this stuff. But hey it was only going to be two weeks I had accomplished harder things right. Our director of this program was amazing (and to this day is someone that I greatly respect) and I had told him that he had these two weeks to convince me to be an Engineer otherwise I was continue on what I wanted to do which was be a teacher. Well I guess it worked because after that two weeks I decided I wanted to be an Engineer (still whatever that was) and I wanted to attend Tennessee Tech and two years later I was accepted and started my Freshmen year. Man was this engineering thing hard, and still is (currently I am entering my 4th year but won't be finished for another 4 semester) I still wonder what I actually want to do when I grow up. Currently I am still bouncing between three different ideas of what I want to actually do with my engineering degree. So I could be an engineer (shocker), I could go to graduate school for education in the STEM (science technologies engineering and math) disciplines since you have to have gotten a degree from one of those disciplines to go on and teach them, or go on to Law school. Ok so for law school you are probably thinking what is she thinking law school, well I really enjoy helping and working to make things better but working with others to improve things. Well some ways to sometimes make really huge impacts is through politics and the law, well then you kinda need to know what you are talking about to do make the greatest impact.
One of my favorite quotes is from Ghandi and it's be the change you wish to see in the world we can sit around talking about what people should do to change or we can be part of the solution and work together to help be apart of that. So I encourage you to continue always shooting for the stars but being ok to land on the moon. You can always shoot again and if you have already landed on the moon you are a little bit further along then you were when you started. I am not sure where my life will lead me but as long as I am working towards becoming something greater and positively impacting the people around me then I will have been successful at something.
I hope that you have wonderful rest of the day
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