How Sports Medicine Changed My Education by Lillian

How Sports Medicine Changed My Education by Lillian - September 2017 Scholarship Essay

Sports medicine. Self-explanatory when you think about it. Medical science that deals with physical fitness and sports related injury. When I took Sports medicine my sophomore year of high school my whole education, and my whole life changed.

How can one class change your whole life? It’s simple really, I wanted to be a physical therapist for years, I wanted to major in sports medicine and follow my dad’s footsteps at Old Dominion University. When I saw sports medicine as a class I could take in high school I was ecstatic. Here’s when it changes my life, I sit down to start my class, I have my notebook out, my colored pens, my pencils and I start reading the material. The next hour of my life was agonizing. I hated every second I had to spend working on that class.

The career that my heart was set on, the subject I wanted to pursue for the next who knows how many years in college, yeah that subject. I hated. From that point on I realized this can’t be what I want to do with my life. I love science but this was terribly boring to me. After this I started to broaden my education more and more. I took classes that I probably would have never taken, this included a class called Cutting edge Science. That’s where I found my love for forensics, and while I may not know exactly what I want to do with my future, I know I am on the right path.

Sports Medicine may have not been my favorite class, I may have not even liked the class at all, but taking it changed how I looked at my education and ultimately changed my life. If I hadn’t taken that class I would be in tons of college dent for a major that I absolutely hated. So despite the good, the bad, and the ugly. Taking that Sports Medicine class to fill up an elective was one of the greatest decisions I’ve ever made.