Now that I am eighteen and a senior, I am considered to be a young adult who has to prepare to make my own into the world and that is a sentence that terrified me when I was a sophomore. My experiences during my freshman through junior years in academics, social outings, and with my family allowed me to open my mind to the idea that I would be able to grow as a person and be able to do things that I love if I pursued a degree in Chinese.
My time in junior high had brought me to focus on a career as a psychologist. I had taken the required junior high course for learning about careers and had my heart set on being a psychologist because I gave decent advice and enjoyed helping people. I learned all the textbook information like job outlook, salary, years in college and graduate school, where I could go to work with my degree and all the This allowed me to
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I began to lose my passion for pursuing psychology as a degree after I took the semester course. I enjoyed helping people but the many too similar terms and fear of causing someone long term damage due to a mistake in wording concerned me. I began to ask my French and Latin teachers for advice and my Latin teacher gave me a decent answer. She told me I could get a degree in the study of languages or a specific language. She said that I would be able to gain fluency well since I was balancing French II and Latin I well, along with my challenging courses, involvement in the National Honor Society, band, and in indoor percussion as my highest priorities. I immediately brought it up to my friend, who created my interest in Asian entertainment, and she told me to look into majoring in Chinese since I had always been interested in learning a language that was not Latin based and Chinese would be a good language to start