From my freshman year in high school until my senior year of school I bet I have changed my major every week. I was going to be everything from a pre-school teacher to, a veterinarian to, a marine biologist to, a chemist to, a psychologist to, a dietitian, to a nurse. Each week a rotated what I wanted to be. However, when it became my senior year I decided the best way to find out what I want to be is to experience that field. So I really thought about what I wanted to be, I wanted to be in a profession where I could help people. I love children so I knew that the profession that I wanted had to involve kids. I did the school to work program at a daycare (I love kids) and a doctor’s office. I really enjoyed both school to work programs. In the middle of the school to work program I decided that I wanted to become a nurse (pediatric nurse). One main reason I enrolled at Marshall was because I heard Marshall had a good nursing program. My, senior summer I couldn’t get a job (no wanted to hire if I couldn’t work through the year) so I volunteered at a local hospital in the nursery. I loved every minute of it. Until, one day the nurse asked me if I ever had watched a circumcision before. I had not, so of course, I said sure I would love to watch one. I thought this would be a great experience. I guess you could say it was an experience of itself. Half way through the procedure I passed out, it was to late for the doctor to do anything, and I fell and hit my face on the floor. So here I was with a huge bruise on my cheek and chin (under my chin is a scar from falling). This was so embarrassing. They had to wheel me down to the emergency room just to make sure nothing was broken, which luckily nothing was. I am not sure what caused me to pass I don’t think it was because of the blood (there was barely any blood from this procedure), or it could have been, but anyway the baby just cried hysterically and it looked helpless strapped down screaming to the top of it’s lungs. So after that experience that was enough to tell me that nursing was not the job for me. I already had gone through freshman orientation so it was too late to change my major. I was thinking to myself what am I going to do I really have not heard a lot about Marshall. Hardly any one from my tiny town goes out of state. I decided to go to Marshall anyway. In late September, early October I went to Marshall’s home page and clicked on programs of studies, and colleges of schools. Immediately when I read about communication disorders it caught my attention and I knew then that I did not have to search any more I found the profession that I wanted. I still wanted to work with children and with this profession I could do that. Like nursing, with this profession I would be able to interact with the children and help them. Also, I think why I like this profession is that, when I was a kid I had to see a speech pathologist for several sounds ( I used to call myself Tances). A matter of fact everyone in my family (my 2 sisters and brother) had to see the school speech pathologist. I remember my experience as having a lot of fun. With this I really thought that this major would provide me with an opportunity to make things fun but at the same time help someone communicate better. In general, being able to help someone communicate seems so rewarding. I like to be in a profession that the end result (hopefully is positive) makes me feel like both of us have achieved something great.