Phase I: The End of High School
I was always a high achieving student, at least academically. However, I never had much direction for what I wanted to spend the rest of my life doing. Throughout the early years in high school, whenever someone asked what I wanted to study in college I just replied "architecture." It made some sense. I sort of liked art, and I liked designing houses in the Sims video game, and I was pretty shy at the time. But I never really felt I was destined to be an architect, it was just an easy answer. The truth was I didn't know what I wanted to study.
In early high school, I envisioned my 40 year old self having an average office job somewhere with an average American family in an average American home. After all, that is what I knew best growing up. And I was okay with that at the time.
Junior and Senior Years in High School started a period of immense change from the shy and unambitious student to who I am today. It started with a job in customer service, which helped me see that I wanted to work with people. It continued with trips to Ecuador, which broadened my world view and inspired me. Volunteering connected the two and started to give me direction before heading into college.
In early high school, I envisioned my 40 year old self having an average office job somewhere with an average American family in an average American home. After all, that is what I knew best growing up. And I was okay with that at the time.
Junior and Senior Years in High School started a period of immense change from the shy and unambitious student to who I am today. It started with a job in customer service, which helped me see that I wanted to work with people. It continued with trips to Ecuador, which broadened my world view and inspired me. Volunteering connected the two and started to give me direction before heading into college.