The moment you turn a senior in high school everyone is always asking you what you are going to major in, and majority of people do not know. Going into my senior year of high school, almost all of my friends already knew what they were going to major in, except for my best friend and I. Whenever someone asked me, my response was "Softball", yes I know that's not a major but it was the only thing I knew I could spend the rest of my life doing. I'm pretty sure I declared my major with a month left of school and still wasn't 100% sold on it. I came into my freshman year of college with nursing as my major, not sure what I was thinking picking the hardest major out there but it sounded good.

I was dead set on becoming a nurse and I had perfected the I'm going to be a nursing or I'm majoring in nursing whenever someone asked, but deep down I didn't know how I would handle it. Helping people wasn't going to be the problem, it was more of how am I going to handle seeing someone sick every single day at work? I wouldn't be able too, so I convinced myself that I would just do what my mom does and be an OB nurse, get to be around babies sounded good to me.

I made it through first semester without questioning my major and was off to a great start, and then February hit me like a brick. I had to have surgery and once they took my cast off and I saw my incision I almost passed out from the dried blood. At this point in my life I had passed out once, and almost passed out about three other times. My mom looks at me and says "I think you need to reconsider your major, you won't make it as a nurse if you can't do blood" just what every college freshman wants to hear from their mom.

So back to square one, no idea what I want to do other than I want to work with children, especially children between the ages of one and seven but I didn't want to be a teacher. I had talked to my Coach and she sent me to a couple of people on campus to take some test, an interest test and a personality test, little did I know the last man I met with would direct me to the right career path. So here I am middle of Spring semester changing my major and realizing that some of the classes I was taking, I didn't need. Bio-Organic Chemistry is really hard to pay attention to when you don't need it.

I got my major changed to Allied Health and decided that I was going to be a Speech Language Pathologist, never was 100% sold on this career path. That was until I shadowed all of Fall semester with a couple different Speech Pathologist and I fell in love. I fell in love with the way you teach someone to make sounds, how to move their tongue, and even how to interact with peers. If you would have told me my senior year that I was going to become a Speech Language Pathologist I would have looked at you and laughed, never in a million years did I think this is the path that I would go down, but I am so happy that God led me here.

What I am getting at here, is no matter what you think you want to do, keep your eyes open to different options. You never know what you are 100% interested in until you have explored every path you can think of!