When Dreams Turn Into Reality by Mollie

When Dreams Turn Into Reality by Mollie - March 2020 Scholarship Essay

From a young age, I am pretty sure that most girls, along with myself, wanted to be a teacher. I can remember being in elementary school, begging my mom to buy me things like a clipboard and a whiteboard so that I could pretend to be a teacher. I would turn my room into a classroom, and on the weekends I would act like it was a full day of school. I always thought that I knew exactly what I wanted to do in life: become a teacher. Once I got older, I realized that I still would love to be a teacher, and most of my friends thought the same thing until we took a teaching class in high school. That class changed everything for everyone except for one of my friends who still wants to be a teacher. When we would go out into elementary schools each week and shadow teachers, I noticed how the teachers were treated by students, and when I thought about how much they make with the amount of work they do and behavior they have to put up with, that was it for me.
After that class, I quickly realized that I no longer wanted to teach, so I had to start thinking of something new. Now that I am so close to graduating high school, only three months away, I have to know what I want to do so I can pick my major. I chose business as my major and I plan on having a minor in hospitality management. Disney has always been a major part of my life and something I have loved forever, and now that I am older I love Universal. My dream job is to work at Disney or Universal as an entertainment manager, which is why I would have to minor in hospitality management. I hope to do an internship over one summer while in college at Disney under their internship program to get a feel of what it is like to work there.
Since elementary school, I knew I wanted to go to college because no one in my family has gone to college and neither of my parents even graduated from high school, and my brother never went to college. Once out of college, I want to have a steady job that brings in enough income for me to live on my own and then get married and start a family. In ten years, I will be 28 years old, which is a strange thing to think about. Hopefully by then I have graduated from Georgia Southern University, have my dream job and a husband, and maybe even have started a family.