I am a sophomore here at Penn State Harrisburg, and I've just about completed my third semester here. I have been so indecisive about what I want to do with my life for many years because I started thinking about college when I was twelve. Last year I was listed under communications because I wanted to be a journalist. I thought it over for a few months and thought with being a journalist I knew I wouldn't get a job anytime soon, but I had a back up plan. I am now a Secondary Education English major which means I am planning on being a high school English teacher. Let me tell you when I am scrolling through Facebook or other social media my inner English teacher does scream sometimes. But I am by no means what you call a "grammar nazi".

I have for the majority of my life been pretty good with school. I will tell you that math is definitely something I despise to do. I sometimes complain I don't need math because I am going to be an english teacher but a finance class would be nice. I was always good at english it was one of my best subjects next to science. I had a teacher my senior year she was my english 4 teacher. I love that woman to death because she inspired me so much during class and found a way to make Shakespeare fun. But I loved reading Shakespeare anyway, Hamlet is my favorite next to Macbeth (but don't you dare say it in a theatre or bad things WILL happen.) That teacher and a few others inspired me to become a teacher and change my major.

So, What would it mean to me to be a teacher? it would mean everything to me because all I've ever wanted to do as a kid was inspire people. I love inspiring people from a performing stand point but I feel like teachers are the ones who inspire the kids. If you think about it students spend a majority of their time with you and the other with their parents. So parents and teachers are the ones who makes the next generation who they are. I have had teachers in the past not care about anything that was going on in my life. I've had teachers that didn't care that I was being bullied. I had teachers who gave me lower grades because I wrote about something I loved but worked hard on. That's what makes me angry because you don't know what those kids are going through.

It makes me mad that some teachers sit there and not give the students a positive environment to live in. That is what my duty is going to be. I want my students to feel safe in my future classroom. I want my students to feel comfortable with coming to me about sensitive topics and that I can help them and most of all educate them. I want to educate them on social issues that are happening in the world because it's important they know whats going on. It's their world and they have to run it once they get out of high school one day. Being a teacher would warm my heart and fulfill my need for inspiring others. I want to be one of those teachers that the kids talk about and want to be in my class. I want to make a change in this world because this world deserves a change, a big one too.