My Passion For Psychology

Tap, tap, tap. My fingers are tapping on the desk as I sit at my home computer. It is the fall of 2011, and I have to decide what major to select on the Common Application. Like many times before, my mother asks me, “What is your passion? You should major in what you are passionate about.” “Well, I’ve always been really interested in psychology,” I replied.
During my freshman year of college, a friend of mine had a very noted view of college’s underlying purpose. He believed that college is probably the largest growth experience that you will have in your life; I see now how that is true. Students all over the world are growing in their own way, whether that be together with their friends or eventually growing apart, sticking to their major or discovering something else entirely different. I for one am someone who was lucky enough to have been able to maintain my passion of my chosen major of psychology. However, I have grown tremendously in terms of specifying that passion and making it both bigger and better; I have ultimately found myself immensely …show more content…
I hope to some day bring success to the school system. Some of my primary goals as a school psychologist are to motivate all children to learn, help them improve in learning and behavior, provide a full range of psychological services in diverse settings, advocate for a child when they are in need of support, and to continuously grow professionally; I truly believe _______ will help me to achieve these goals. I look forward to learning these skills and even more beyond these skills within the next three years of graduate school in order to achieve these ambitions and become what I am passionate about – a school psychologist, and, by furthering my education at _______, I will have the ability to apply everything I gain to my career and throughout the rest of my