Building Aspirations
English 1A- Online
Building Aspirations Educational identity is the most significant principle of becoming a successful student. There are many different majors a student can chose that it can become overwhelming. Young learners may not know what they want to study or take up as a career. I believe people need to find out who they are before they know what they want to study. If we know what we are passionate about we can find out what our strengths are and use them to decide what to major in. This was an easy question for me to answer because I always wanted to be an architect even before I knew the word “architect” existed. The key word here is “knew” because I can’t explain how a child would know such a thing. I can tell you the exact moment this decision was clarified in my head. It was Christmas day, 1994, when I was 7 years old. That year I received from Santa Claus: a T-square ruler, a clear 45 degree triangle, and a drawing board, which was just a 24” x 30” polished piece of wood. I didn’t know what these things were, but I remember having this conversation with my dad. I said, “I’m so excited, I can’t wait to cut this board up into something cool!” My dad laughed and said, “Oh son, that’s not for cutting! That’s for drawing.” I said, “How can I draw with a piece of wood?” He explained I was supposed to draw with paper on the board. Despite the change of thought, I was still excited. My parents always encouraged me to draw, build, or just create in general. I loved to draw and I especially loved to build things. I would build Lego sets, birdhouses, puzzles, and just about anything I could get my hands on. So I guess it just came naturally that I wanted to become an architect by putting my drawing and building skills together. A few things happened between that moment almost 20 years ago, when I decided I wanted to be an architect, and today. Despite me thinking from an early age that I knew what I was going to do as a career when I grew up, I had
Building Aspirations Educational identity is the most significant principle of becoming a successful student. There are many different majors a student can chose that it can become overwhelming. Young learners may not know what they want to study or take up as a career. I believe people need to find out who they are before they know what they want to study. If we know what we are passionate about we can find out what our strengths are and use them to decide what to major in. This was an easy question for me to answer because I always wanted to be an architect even before I knew the word “architect” existed. The key word here is “knew” because I can’t explain how a child would know such a thing. I can tell you the exact moment this decision was clarified in my head. It was Christmas day, 1994, when I was 7 years old. That year I received from Santa Claus: a T-square ruler, a clear 45 degree triangle, and a drawing board, which was just a 24” x 30” polished piece of wood. I didn’t know what these things were, but I remember having this conversation with my dad. I said, “I’m so excited, I can’t wait to cut this board up into something cool!” My dad laughed and said, “Oh son, that’s not for cutting! That’s for drawing.” I said, “How can I draw with a piece of wood?” He explained I was supposed to draw with paper on the board. Despite the change of thought, I was still excited. My parents always encouraged me to draw, build, or just create in general. I loved to draw and I especially loved to build things. I would build Lego sets, birdhouses, puzzles, and just about anything I could get my hands on. So I guess it just came naturally that I wanted to become an architect by putting my drawing and building skills together. A few things happened between that moment almost 20 years ago, when I decided I wanted to be an architect, and today. Despite me thinking from an early age that I knew what I was going to do as a career when I grew up, I had
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