Since I was little, I have always wanted to be a doctor, and I really wanted to go to Northwestern, and I wish I would have applied, because studing a lot doesn't bother me. However, Sophomore year of high school, I got super burnt out on school, and decided, I don't want to be a doctor, I want to be a health teacher b/c I can go to school for four years, and teach at my high school, and date one of the hot teachers... What the heck was I thinking??
Seriously, I would not make a good teacher, and my parents knew this, and tried to tell me it, and I did finally realize this! Plus, my heart was in becoming a doctor, not in teaching, but I just was taking an easy way out.
So, when college decsion time came, I wanted to still be health teacher, and go to University of Northern Iowa, because it had a health education program. That was the only college I wanted to go to at that time, and the only one I intened on applying to. Well, I realized I had to apply to a bunch, and I did. UNI doesn't have pre-med, and so I considered University of Illinois-Chicago because they have a program called GPPA or something, where you can get into a professional program easier if you go there. I also looked at New York University and Northern Illinois. I wasn't going even to apply to Iowa, but when all the mail from colleges started to pour in, Iowa had the biggest packet, and the fastest returns on applications and such. They didn't have health ed. but I just applied to appy. Well, then I narrowed it down to UNI and Iowa, and one day just out of the blue chose Iowa. In choosing it, I knew I was choosing it for the wrong reasons; it was big, had a larger Greek system, and was a Big 10 school. However hasty my descision was though, it was the perfect choice. I finally realized that I didn't want to be a teacher, and I wanted to go with my heart and become a doctor, not caring how long it took me, or how hard I had to work, so I switched my major in April, before I even was out of high school! Now that I am here, I have never even considered another major, because I am certain in what I want to do, even if I am in school for 12 years or something. I realize, despite choosing Iowa for the wrong reasons, I am here for the right reasons, I now realize. I am so happy at Iowa, and know that I'm getting a good education and I am pretty sure I wouldn't have liked anywhere as much as I like it here.
