When the author was young, she wanted to be a nurse or teacher. She took many health science classes in high school and was accepted to study nursing in college. However, after her first semester, she realized nursing was not for her. She switched her major to early childhood education but also found that was not a good fit. She finally settled on psychology, which she is enjoying. With a psychology degree, she plans to work with children and help make a positive difference in their lives.

1. Reflection Paper
When I was a little girl, I always said that I wanted to be either a nurse or a school
teacher. My cousins and I would always play school, and I would be the teacher. We would also
play cops and robbers and I would be the one to help people when they got injured.
All through high school I took health science classes. I was sure that I wanted to be a
nurse at this point. I started out my freshmen year in high school, taking principles of biomedical
science. Each year I would take more and more health science classes. While taking these
classes, I was also doing different camps, workshops and job shadowing at our local hospitals.
By the time I was a senior, I had taken every health science class that my school offered. When
graduation time came I was in the National Technical Honors Society, a biomedical science
completer with Project Lead the Way, Health Science Completer, and I was part of the National
Society of High School Scholars. Along with all of this, I was recently accepted to the University
of South Carolina at Beaufort.
When I started USCB in 2014, my major was nursing. I did the nursing classes for a
semester. When I took Ms. Rachel Beach’s class “Career and Life Planning for Nursing and
Health Professions,” that was when I noticed that nursing was not for me. The following
semester I changed my major to Early Childhood Education. I did this for two semesters, and
soon realized that this too was not for me. My second semester of my sophomore year, I changed
my major to psychology. So far I am loving it. I was able to explore more classes that we have
here on campus, and my career choices are a lot broader now. It is safe to say, that I will be
sticking with psychology!

2. With my psychology degree, I plan to work with children and their behavior. Having a
degree in psychology will come in handy for this, because I will be able to connect with the
children more. I really want to make a difference in the world one day. I feel as though, if I start
with children while they are young, they can take the lessons and apply it to their future.