Why I Want To Pursue A Higher Education

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As I prepare to enter my final year of undergraduate education at UC Santa Cruz, I have been spending a lot of time really trying to figure out how I want to use my education after leaving college. Beyond the daunting questions of what I think I could do after graduation or where I am most likely to find a job, I truly want to guide my thinking by where I would do the most good and feel truly fulfilled. Ultimately, the answer is not one I would be inclined to raise my hand for in class: I do not know. I am far from prepared to commit myself to a particular career path, but have many ideas for how I would like to change the world once I leave college. What I do know is that the curriculum I have taken and the organizations for which I have already …show more content…

Having worked for a number of environmental law organizations, I could very well imagine myself going to law school and making a career out of embedding environmental protection and public health standards into our country’s legal framework as we face a new era for our climate as well as our democracy. I can just as easily imagine myself taking my skills and ambition to the grassroots, advocating for a better path for our country and people at the community level, an arguably more important task than anything that can be accomplished in a courtroom. My only hope is that I refuse to allow my decisions for where I dedicate myself to be dictated by my own financial situation. Despite coming from a lower middle class family where too many major life decisions, let alone every day decisions, are guided by finances, I have been blessed to be able to go to college nearly debt free with the support of Pell Grants, Cal Grants, and university aid. I believe it is because of my family background that I view my options after college as a sea of

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