When I first started college, I decided to become a Biology Major with a Pre-Med concentration. I was always told growing up that I needed to be a Biology major if I wanted to become a doctor or plainly have a career in the medical field. In High School, I took plenty of science classes. I did well in them, but I knew deep down that I wasn't passionate about them.

When I first registered for my college classes this semester, I knew that besides taking science classes, I wanted a class that I felt wasn't going to be as stressful. I came across a class called "Intro to Women's and Gender Studies." After I read the description, I became genuinely excited about the class and was curious about what the course would entail.

Women's and Gender studies is a major that focuses on explaining how gender is created within social institutions. Also, how these institutions affect our own lives and analyze the different intersections that make us who we are. Those intersections being gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality, and religion. The major itself also focuses on gender identity and the contributions that women have made to feminism. In my Intro class, I am actually able to study women of color feminism through the perspectives of women of color.

As a student, I genuinely loved coming to class and being able to voice my opinion. There are not many times where I have been able to have open discussions about the topics that we touched on in class. I have loved talking about what I've learned and those around me could see that I was passionate about this course. Because of this, I decided to make Women's and Gender Studies my major (with my Pre-Med concentration). Overall, this major has challenged me in more ways than I could have ever imagined. I have been able to push myself to a new capacity and think more critically than ever before about the socio-historical issues that I am passionate about.