I will never forget what made me want to become a crime laboratory technologist and why. When I was about three years old, I was introduced to the sweet little brown haired, freckle faced little girl named Leah, who would quickly become my best friend. We met in the nursery at the church we were raised in and lived a few blocks from each other. Little did I know our friendship would come to an abrupt stop.
For the three years we had together, we were flower girls for a lady’s wedding who went to our church. Leah and I even went to the same school together, and even though we were a grade apart we still remained close. In school, we were both in cheerleading we were in different weight classes, so we would have different pep rallies for our …show more content…
Then Christmas came, and my parents got me my first science kit. Oh, I was so happy I couldn’t control it. The kit had a microscope, a real scalpel, prepped slides and slides that I can make. I played for hours with it, I even made my own blood slide with the help of my dad of course. So it was safe to say that this sparked my passion for science.
All during high school, I made it my priority to do amazing in all things science. One day during high school we had a chance to job shadow with where we wanted to possibly have our careers in. I chose to do a ride along with the deputy sheriff who told my mom, who knew her from when she worked for the police department as a dispatcher, that I might be able to go to a crime scene. So while we were out riding around, a call comes over that there was a crime scene that needed to be looked over. You better believe I was excited, I was as excited as a dog with his head hanging out of the car window. When senior year came, my mom and I knew that together we were not going to be able to pay for me to go to college. So I then decided to join the military, but it didn’t last that long because I got discharged for asthma. Then it wouldn’t be another ten years when one of my friends would make me realize my passion needs to be
For the three years we had together, we were flower girls for a lady’s wedding who went to our church. Leah and I even went to the same school together, and even though we were a grade apart we still remained close. In school, we were both in cheerleading we were in different weight classes, so we would have different pep rallies for our …show more content…
Then Christmas came, and my parents got me my first science kit. Oh, I was so happy I couldn’t control it. The kit had a microscope, a real scalpel, prepped slides and slides that I can make. I played for hours with it, I even made my own blood slide with the help of my dad of course. So it was safe to say that this sparked my passion for science.
All during high school, I made it my priority to do amazing in all things science. One day during high school we had a chance to job shadow with where we wanted to possibly have our careers in. I chose to do a ride along with the deputy sheriff who told my mom, who knew her from when she worked for the police department as a dispatcher, that I might be able to go to a crime scene. So while we were out riding around, a call comes over that there was a crime scene that needed to be looked over. You better believe I was excited, I was as excited as a dog with his head hanging out of the car window. When senior year came, my mom and I knew that together we were not going to be able to pay for me to go to college. So I then decided to join the military, but it didn’t last that long because I got discharged for asthma. Then it wouldn’t be another ten years when one of my friends would make me realize my passion needs to be