College Admissions Essay: A Career As A Career Path

Every child wants to “be something” when they grow up. A doctor, a lawyer, a veterinarian, the list continues indefinitely. Most people fixate on one particular career; even if it changes, at any given moment they have one goal. For some reason, that never happened for me. My friends and family would ask “what do you want to be when you grow up?” and I would immediately rattle off a laundry list of different things. “An inventor, a scientist, a dancer, a chef, a translator! I’m going to learn every language in existence!” was my excited reply. Apparently I was quite the ambitious child.

A wise man once told me, “Get all the education you can, because that is something no one can ever take away from you.” Ever since that day, his words have always stuck with me. As I close the high school chapter of my life, I am anxious and driven, for the possibilities of the future. I have grown up being the oldest of my immediate family and my extended family. As a result of being the oldest, it has pushed me to strive to become the best example for my brothers and cousins. As I begin the path towards my future career, I have set goals I wish to accomplish to make my family, and myself, proud of the woman I will become. My education and career goals are to go to South Plains, then Texas Tech, and pursue a major in finance along with a

“You are such a storyteller” my mom would tell me as a little girl, but little did we know storytelling would become my career path.

When I reached the ending years of high school I hadn’t yet known completely what I wanted to make a career out of nor had I chosen what I wanted to study in college or even what college I wanted to attend. When I finally figured out my future it was then that I had realized what bad shape my resume was in. I wasn’t the type to join any clubs because none interested me (excluding the culinary arts club) and I didn’t have any amazing academic accomplishments because school didn’t interest me. However that doesn’t mean I had nothing, I had challenges I had endured, responsibilities which built my character, and a growing ambition in the world of business.

Kids always here the same thing when they first tell their parents what they want to be when they grow up, “you can be anything you want to be if you work hard at it.” While that usually true it’s really hard to be a professional basketball player when you’re under 6’6’’. As we get older and still have that dream of being an all star our parents start to get a little more suggestive about our career choice we start to hear “always have a backup plan.” Hinting that they know we aren't going to make it that far. Then that one day finally arrives when they tell you that one thing every kid hears at least once in your life, “why don’t you be a doctor!” Yes the dreaded doctor kids all over the country fear, the evil man with his cold tools and pointy objects. Most kids immediately throw this idea out the window some of those kids decide this might be a good idea. Being one of those kids I quickly learned it’s a lot more complicated than me as a kid realized. The career I chose was a doctor more specifically a specialist of internal medicine. What internal medicine does is figure out

“Be prepared”. These words seem to flow from all those who have ever been caught off guard.I have always worked very hard to be prepared.For this reason I have been trying to stay on top of my plans for the future. I believe that this would be the next step in my career as a high school student. College in this day and age is extraordinarily expensive, meaning those who seek a degree really have to go that extra mile. This endeavor could wear anyone out, and with this added task comes less time to work on what you would truly desire. For me at this point in my highschool career, however what I would like is a college degree. I’d love nothing more than to be able to participate in this program, as it is a magnificent opportunity to get a jump

For many young boys and girls, the introduction to sports is often a life changing event. For me, it has been an indelible mark of endearment that has left me captivated since my earliest memory. While I would later go on to explore other passions such as business, law, and politics, it would be the synthesis of these affections that drives my career direction and goals. In any of life’s endeavors, inspiration and guidance is derived from 3 words: Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. While these three words on their own are only verbs, when placed together they are tied to every aspect of life, sport, business, and success. The words were stressed by my father, who learned their importance himself as a Sergeant the Marine Corps. Despite the immense

In looking back over my life and at the decisions that I have made, I can clearly see that some of the choices I have made were because of my daughter and the need to help other people. I married when I was young and was discouraged to seek employment and education even though I wanted too. There were many times that I would bring up education to my now ex-husband and he would tell me that I would not be good at that. When my daughter was born, my focus was on her until she was three years of age. At that point I began to want to work or go to school so my ex-husband found me a nice job at a church where I spent almost six years as a property supervisor. During this time the desire to go to college only grew inside me and

My friends have always criticized my altruism, marveling at how I could just spend a Sunday at the hospital volunteering or walk three miles to end hunger. But I've never seen it as a burden because I want to live my life serving others and making a change. But, school has also shown me the wonders of science captivating me with complex molecular structures and processes the brain instantaneously does every second. The intrigue of science and the joy of helping left me at a crossroads when choosing a career path. Yet, I soon realized that the decision was clear: medicine was the perfect combination of what I loved. It was on realizing this, that a new world opened up to me. I noticed how inspiring my own doctors, family members in the medical field, and various other doctors were. Doctors selflessly devote themselves to care for others through science.

My educational and career plans are to get my bachelors and then my master so I can have the education and knowledge that I will need to run a medical office. I always knew that I wanted to do something to help people out and I know by doing this I still will be able to. I know it won’t be hands on as like a doctor, nurse, caregiver, or medical assistant but I could help them try to figure out the appropriate care they need or ways for them to afford the treatment that is necessary. I think that I would be able to give back to the community by assisting them when they have questions, filling out an application or helping them in general. The thing that inspired me to follow my education is wanting to do something for myself and to give my children everything that I never had, a lot of people do not understand how essential in education is and how it can get you so far in life but it is very important.

As a senior, I pride myself in knowing that I will be the first in my family to graduate high school and have the opportunity of pursuing my dreams. As I look into the future, it is easy to see why many would think that my dream career is unobtainable. When I tell others what I want to do, I always get the same reaction of shock. Countless times throughout my life I've been told that I cannot do it; I've been told that there is no way that a kid born with illegal parents who have no real education can ever achieve what I want to do. I dream of becoming a surgeon and helping save the lives of others. I want to prove once and for all that someone like me, even from the circumstances that surround me, can make something great with their lives

Growing up I was always told to be a doctor. I live in a strict household but over the years my parents made my life a bit more flexible since I started high school. I didn’t know what I wanted to do beside be a doctor. However, that wasn’t what I really want to become but the idea I did took in consideration. During my freshman year, I took a class called Math in Engineering. In the class, we were taught the eight steps of engineering and applied to all the assigned projects given. It was really interesting and collaborative. I also joined the club Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement (MESA). MESA is a competing club where students interested in the engineer field join and create projects to overcome an assigned task. Every year in MESA I’ve always place first place at prelims for my projects and have gone to regionals. However, my goal to place at regionals have not been achieve yet. Towards the end of the school year, I grew interest in the engineering field and decided I wanted to be an engineer but I have not decided what type specifically.

For the longest time I could not decide on a major and a career to study throughout college. When I came to Georgia Southern University I discovered that they had a major that was very interesting to me. Sport Management id the ideal major for my interest and me. Since I love sports I figured that this would be the career for me. A degree in Sport Management helps to prepare for success in sport related occupations.

I've always had many interests: drawing, writing, cooking and baking, sewing, biology, etc but I couldn't choose from any of them as a career choice because they seemed too simple for me. I needed something challenging but those interests fell short. Luckily, I found something.

Though I have known for a few months the basic path I have wanted to take regarding my career, Political Science, I hadn’t focused the general study down enough to be helpful enough to find a career path. After this course, I realized that I had a passion for design and international relations. Using these two factors, I was able to narrow down my major so that it would have an emphasis on international relations, with an urban planning minor. With this combination of knowledge, I am able to focus on developing communities in an international sense, along with being able to focus on developing communities nationally or even