Personal Statement: Pursuing A Bachelor's Degree In Education

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Personal Statement At the age of five, I had fallen in love with reading when I started learning the Arabic alphabet. Since my parents work in the education field and believe in the importance of reading, they encouraged me to read a lot in different areas. During my adolescence, I began reading the topics that attracted me. For example, inquiries to counselors in magazines and newspapers about life difficulties that people suffers. I was eager to help people, and I felt I might do that in the future. However, when I graduated from high school in 2008, I decided to study a major that I could gain a lot of money regardless weather I like it or not. I chose to study engineering, which I realized two years later that I made a wrong decision,

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