College Admissions Essay: What I Want To Become A Nurse

What do you want to be when you’re older? What college do you want to go to? What are you going to major in? These are a few of the many questions we get asked during our senior year and If I’m being quite honest, I really don’t know how to answer half of the questions I’ve been asked these past few months. Growing up I’ve wanted to be so many different things, when I was 5 I wanted to be a princess, when I was 7 I wanted to be queen and when I was 10 I wanted to be the president. Well the older I got, the more realistic my aspirations became I ended up wanting to become a veterinarian at 12 then a social worker at 15 but the more thought I put into it the more I realized I really wanted to become a nurse. I’ve been surrounded by doctors and nurses my entire life and one could even say I grew up in hospitals, not because I was …show more content…
I remember as a child, I would hang out with a few of the nurses in the front desk and watch them work and interact with the patients and their families, sometimes they would even let me staple the papers and put them in a folder and we would call it our little secret. I remember those times I spent there to be my happiest memories growing up. You would think because my family had stable jobs and we didn’t have to struggle as much for money that I would have a lot of happy memories growing up but that wasn’t really the case for me. You see my family was never close growing up, I considered the nurses more like family rather than my own actual family. My parents were never together or around growing up, my mom had my siblings and I in her teens so she had to work multiple jobs to support us when my father left to be