The idea of education was not something my family pushed on me, in fact my mother never once mentioned college to me as a child. I had many friends who all went off to college during the years following high school, yet for some reason I never pictured that for myself. Back in high school I never would have dreamed that one day I would be sitting here writing a paper about my academic experiences, or what lead me to San Francisco State and my future goals. Nevertheless, here I am and it has been a very long journey to get me where I am today and I have many people along the way that guided me in my journey, Growing up in Arkansas I truly loved school and looked forward to going every day, however at the age of 8 my mother …show more content…
Even with all the social anxiety I have and the fear being in a classroom with other students for the first time since 1999, however I was able to succeed and pass all my classes that first quarter back. During that first quarter, I took an Introduction to Psychology course and realized that my major in accounting was not my passion after all. Something about understanding the mind and society really intrigued me and after that I started taking as many psychology and sociology classes that I could take. During that first year in school I really proved to myself that I was capable of doing well in school, in fact just recently while looking at my transcripts I realized that I made the dean’s list multiple times during those first couple of years. That is an accomplishment for someone like me; who never really did well in school, yet here I was graduating with a AA in liberal studies with an emphasis on social and behavioral …show more content…
Teaching was not something I originally thought of when I started school, but when I got accepted here I realized that I could be the Mrs. DeWeese to another child and be able to influence them the same way that I was. Teaching and helping middle school age children is my dream and I feel that I have the patience and passion to be able to teach them. With all the different types of bullying these days, especially cyber-bullying and peer-pressure I hope that one day I am able to become a school counselor; so that I can help more students who struggle with the pressures of middle