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The Career Of A College Degree Essay

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1. Brief autobiographical sketch, including what led to your interest in the practice of clinical psychology.

Elizabeth Gilbert, famed author of Eat, Pray, Love, once wrote, “you spend a lot of your life having people tell you to follow your passion… passion is hot, it burns. Every day, you can’t access that… Instead, follow your curiosity.” After graduating from Terra Nova high school in 2002 I felt pressure to follow my passion and apply for a college degree to pursue it. I was accepted to San Diego State University but declined the offer and instead enrolled in my local community college, Skyline College. I didn’t feel connected to a passion society says young adults should feel after graduating high school. Instead, I took a few classes over two semesters and then decided to leave the bay area where I grew up and move to Las Vegas. It was here in Las Vegas that I discovered what I was curious about (where my curiosities lied?). Las Vegas has an eclectic, diverse, interesting, and beautiful flow of people constantly coming in and out of the city; and it was by observing and interacting with these people everyday that I became curious about human behavior. After taking 10 years away from school I returned to Las Vegas’ College of Southern Nevada in 2012 to receive my associates degree in psychology. I graduated with high honors, as a member of Phi Theta Kappa, and continued on by applying to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) for a bachelor’s in psychology. It was

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