Receiving Headaches to Relieving Headaches by Elizabeth

Receiving Headaches to Relieving Headaches by Elizabeth - June 2017 Scholarship Essay

If choosing your career was as easy as it was during our primary years, everyone would be at ease and happier in their lives; because, as children don't acknowledge the years, money and knowledge spent to perceive a career. As kindergarteners we're placed in an ivory tower, away from the real world. At 6 years old, when my schoolmates were deciding to be doctors and architects, I chose to be a teacher. As a young child, I always enjoyed helping other students do their work, whether it be breaking down directions or helping them in math or reading. Progressing through grade school, I savvied working with young children; I didn't necessarily have to be a teacher, I had more options.

Entering junior high, I found a passion for mathematics, reading, and most importantly science. I discovered the variety of doctors that filled the world such as: pediatricians, surgical doctors, doctors that deal with mental illnesses, and the way the brain worked.
The beginning of freshman year, I was introduced to honors and AP courses; I was placed in a room full of ambitious students, and teachers who would facilitate in making my aspirations come true. My honors biology teacher sparked my desires of studying the brain, and my AP biology teacher painted the yellow brick road towards the medical field. I found myself walking down it more and more my junior year of high school.

Now, here I sit, as a Senior counting down the days until I graduate and move on to the next chapter of my life, a foreseen chapter filled with endless science courses and brain diagrams. It's incredible how going through your school years, you come to know yourself and the person you want to become once you leave. How an academic course and your instructors can shape your goals and dreams. Until finally, you're on the stage receiving your doctoral degree, thinking about how you never have to worry about an assignment or lab report being due by midnight ever again.