College Entry Essay

I fondly remember playing school with my sister as a child. In these roleplaying games I was always the teacher, and she was always the student. As we grew up, and started having our friends over, my class size grew, at times reaching six or seven “students”. Although I did not fully understand or recognize it at the time, teaching has always been a passion of mine.

As I got older, entering high school, my priorities changed, I no longer recognized teaching as my future. I thought that architecture was the route I would take. I loved the idea of designing houses, and thought how fun and easy my life would be in pursuing this career goal. With my youthful ignorance, I decided that is what I would study once I graduated. As the years passed, I had children of my own, and my idea of what happiness, and wealth was changed drastically. I started to feel that the path I chose to take was not what I wanted anymore. Architecture, design, drafting, all of the late nights,

The sad truth of it was that I was in a male driven environment, and myself as a woman would never get the recognition I deserved or wanted. I felt all my hard work was for nothing, and I realized that I didn’t want to do this anymore. This was the turning point for me.

What I really wanted to do was go back to school, and follow my dream to become a teacher. A dream I only recognized months before, but one that I thought about on a daily basis. I started night classes at QVCC, and eventually transferred to Eastern to earn my bachelor’s degree in English, which I will have in May. My passion for literature is equal to my desire to teach literature and English studies to our youth. From here, I hope to be accepted into the graduate program here at Eastern to earn my Master’s degree in secondary