Emma Scott: My Future

     Some people know what they want to be from the time they are born. They have this so-called “calling” and they have one goal in mind. When I think back to my childhood I can remember what I wanted to become, but as I grew up none of them stuck. What did I want to be when I grew up? When I was in kindergarten the answer was always a doctor. I wanted to help people and make sure that they were no longer sick. Then when I was in the third grade my mom went back to work as a librarian so my dreams shifted to wanting to become a teacher. All the women in my family were teachers of some sorts and I thought I may want to follow in their footsteps. I eventually went to middle school and worked with children who were deaf and changed my mind again to wanting to become an audiologist. 

    Once I got to high school I quickly learned to hate the question “What do you want to be when you grow up?”. Adults always ask this question and I disliked it because I could never provide them with an answer. I think I also knew that my time was coming to an end with being able to not know. I have always known that I would further my education after high school, but how was I supposed to pick a school if I did not know what I wanted to do in the future? In the end I picked a school based on where I thought I could thrive and have many different opportunities. For me Christopher Newport was the school I was looking for. 

    As a freshman I still had no idea what I wanted to major in. My parents could not decide for me and I was nervous because no one in my family has strayed from the teaching pathway. Not only were all the women in my family teachers, but almost all of them taught a language. My mom  teaches English to elementary school kids in the library, my grandmother was a french teacher, one of my aunts taught Spanish, and the list goes on. I have always been more driven by science courses. There was no one in my family that I could talk to about the different routes in the science field. I took several science classes at the college level and still enjoyed them and did the best in these types of classes. I also enjoyed them because science challenged me in ways that other subjects did not. I knew that I did not want to major in chemistry, but thought about other majors in the science field. This is when I landed on the realization that I could major in kinesiology and I would become a physical therapist. This summer I have a few shadowing opportunities to make certain this is what I want to do for the rest of my life. Am I still scared and hesitant to discuss my future? Yes, because it still feels very much up in the air, but I am much more confident that this is what I want to do. Am I scared I will realize that I hate it, but it will be too late? I definitely am because if I hate kinesiology I will be miserable for the rest of my life. I will have to go to grad school for several years and my biggest fear is that all my work and parents' money will go to waste when it's all said and done. With all of these doubts though this journey has also provided me with hope and excitement to start my next journey which will determine my future and what I will do in life. 


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