My Future In Bilingual Speech Pathology

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Ever since I was a little girl, I have been dreamed of being a teacher. I wanted to decorate my own classroom, grade my students paper, and proudly display their colorful works of art on my walls. I planned on going to a small, private West Coast college to get my undergrad degree in child psychology and then later go on to an Ivy League grad school for my Ph.D in Bilingual Speech Pathology. But my sophomore year of high school, something changed. I started to fall in love with another equally as fascinating but completely opposite field of study, aerospace engineering. After my first plane ride earlier that summer, I started to research plane mechanics and safety technologies that are used by airlines in my free time. All of the concepts of

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