The first day of my freshman year I had no doubts about what I was going to do with my future. I came in declared as a Biochemistry major, and after graduation I was going to graduate school to study Genetics. This was my plan through most of high school, and even then I could not understand how other people did not know what they wanted to do with their lives. Full of certainty about the future I did very well in my science classes, but by the middle of the semester I realized that I hated the major I had chosen. The biology classes were not too bad, but I hated chemistry labs and the chemistry classes put me to sleep on a regular basis. I remember walking back from class one day thinking, “Do I really want to spend the rest of my life studying chemistry and working in a lab?” It didn’t take long for me to realize that I had made a mistake in my career choice, and I began to think about what else I could do. Continue reading →