Life presents us with many paths. Some lead us to passions and others misery. We blindly choose paths hoping for the best. The hardest moment and period in my life was having to choose which passion I want to live my life for.

I have always had a love for science and social studies growing up. My love for science lead me to agriculture, while social studies led me to history, political science, and sociology. Going to college I struggled to choose a path. Do I go towards agriculture and choose to help feed the world? Or do I go towards history, sociology, or political science and not let the past be forgotten? Throughout high school I went back and forth on my decision. I eventually choose a major that combines a mixture of agriculture, sociology, and political science.

Upon my first semester I realized that even though it combined my two passions it wasn't the right fit for me. I would have to go one way or the other. I thought long and hard about it. I still loved both, but did I love one more than the other? The answer was no. They are things that I can't live without and I won't live without.

A realization hit me, it had been easy and right in front of me. I can pursue my passion for social studies and continue to be an "agvocate" at the same time. So I did the big scary thing of changing my major to history education.

For some, people changing their major isn't a big deal but when you've been raise to never give up, its big deal. And changing my major I felt like I was giving up. It took me along time to realize I was just choosing another path for happiness and fulfillment.

Hope my new path gives me happiness and fulfillment, and my passion for history and agriculture never leaves me.

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence." -Henry David Thoreau