College Admissions Essay: A Career In High School

Many people find high school a place of discovery. Some discover their place early, and some late, but almost all do eventually find their way; find their place. Middle and high school can be a very confusing place to be, with so many possible careers to choose from it seems almost impossible to do so and yet we still do. We spend so much time searching for the answer of what to do to be successful in life, that we loose track of what to do now; what to do to maximize our time in high school.
Entering high school I felt the same way as most of my peers. I knew this what the time in my life were I needed to find out who I was and what I was going to do. I had no clue what I wanted to do. I had so many interests from business to law to a career in science. There were so many options and so little time to decide that I was immediately and completely overwhelmed. How was I or anyone else supposed to figure out what we wanted to do? I also think that it was especially hard for me because I had so many interests in so many different aspects of school life. I loved sports business, law and politics and at that point in my life I also had aspirations of following my parents into medicine. I knew that I had to pick only a select few because one cannot fit all of these different courses into out simple eight-course schedule. I, as most kids in my …show more content…
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