The Expected
Growing up in a Jamaican household, my options for future careers included and were limited to being a Doctor, Lawyer or Engineer. Since I did well in science and worked well with kids, I took this as a sign to pursue becoming a Pediatrician. My first two years at Wheaton included a lot of doubt and evaluation on my career pursuits.
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Writing up lab reports was the bane of my existence my freshman year of college. Everything revolved around quantitative data and experiments but there was no room for the qualitative. Furthermore, I did not feel like I was truly using my gifts fully.
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To left you have hours and hours of experimentation to create a point graph for reaction in General Chemistry. As they say, hind sight is twenty-twenty and I can not believe that I did this.
These experimentation and scientific inquires where fun sometimes but I never felt connected to it. This lack of connection pushed me to have a heart to heart with my parents about my future career.
Below is actually an essay that I wrote for Passage before I spoke with my parents.
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Something within me wanted to do something that used who I am to connect with others. My essay for Passage gave me the ability to look within and express myself through my writing. It was through this essay were I discovered I was not meant to be a doctor.
This paper helped consolidate a lot of emotions I was having based on my medical career path. It's a Wonderful Life 2.0 describes my updated version of what a wonderful life will look like outside of the medical field.
