Reflective Essay To Study At Clarkson University

This past year has been one of my best since joining Clarkson University in the fall of 2015. I say this because last semester, fall 2017, I managed to obtain a 4.0 G.P.A., which had only happened to me once before during my first semester at Clarkson. To me, experiencing a semester similar to the first one I had is an ironic, symbolic, and learning moment. I say this because I completely changed one of my majors last semester. Originally, one of my degree programs was Biology, but I decided to change it to Psychology. This change was a major decision, mostly because had I not switched to psychology I would have been able to graduate in spring 2018 after taking a few more classes. The decision came once I realized that biology no longer suited my

I have always been more interested in the mind, brain, and human behavior more than anything else. Also, most biology in the modern era is grounded in chemistry and looks at the happenings on the cellular and molecular level. This field of biology is not the kind that I care for; I prefer evolutionary biology, or biology and its conjunctions with society and psychology. The only time biology at the molecular and cellular level piques my interest is in the potential applications that a discovery or topic will have on the world and the people in it, or when it is featured in philosophical or theoretical discussions. Also, I noticed that despite changing my major, I did not face any setbacks in credits, and am still able to graduate on time in spring 2019, because all of the classes that I have taken for my biology major also counted towards the psychology major. I was already on a biology/psychology track but had just never changed my major to match my interests. So, in the past year I managed to better clarify my academic goals and how those goals will intersect with my personal interests. This scholarship has helped me tremendously over the