Growing Up Education Narrative

reminiscing on the events that have led to this point in my life thus far, one memory stands out the most. It was the beginning of my second year in high school, and I was sitting in my advisers' office who tells me there is no way I can get caught up and I would be lucky if I even graduated. It was the first time anyone told me I could not do something. Seeing that I come from a family where almost no one holds a high school diploma, it was as if I was destined to follow in their footsteps. For a long time, I felt defeated until one day my younger sister told me that when she grew up she wanted to be just like me. At that point I realized that no one could tell me where my life was headed except myself, and I had to set a better example. From …show more content…
I was raised by a single parent mother, who did not hold an education beyond the 8th grade. We moved more than twice the average person would in a lifetime. With every year came another school. Thus, a considerable amount of school was missed. Consequently, I fell so far behind that by the time I was supposed to be a junior in high school I was only a freshman. If I wanted to excel academically it was time for a new environment, so I moved with my dad in Memphis TN. There I was enrolled in an alternative school geared towards catching students up academically. To graduate on time, I had to double up my course load. Determined, I graduated on time becoming the first in my family to have a high school …show more content…
The program focused mainly on exposing students to professional health careers. Since I previously planned to be a primary care physician, I shadowed Dr. Lawrence Madlock at the University Health Services. Little did I know this program would be a career changing experience. Surprisingly I became interested in the lab aspect of the internship more than anything. The most memorable was when the medical technologist showed myself and the other intern how a urinalysis was performed. Processing a background in science equipped me with the necessary skills to understand what I was being done and why. I could relate even though what I was learning was new. I soon realized that I wanted to help patient in an indirect fashion. From that point on I knew that I wanted to work in a