Personal Narrative: A Career As A Forensic Pathologist

I started my first year of college with my life all planned out. I had this ridicules idea that everything was going to be a piece of cake. I was going to join different clubs, do lots of research, make the dean’s list and most of all make my parents proud. Now that I really think about it what in the world was I thinking, I realized that college is an entirely different universe then high school. My GPA dropped for the first time in my life from a 3.7 in high school to a 2.8. The drop in my GPA made me hunger to go to medical school even more, before my life academic in the sense that there were no challenges or obstacles that I really faced in high school. However, when I entered college I was faced with lots of hurdles academically and emotionally that opened my eyes and made my desire burn more to obtain my goals in life. In elementary school, I wanted to become a teacher and a pastor, in sixth grade I wanted to become a painter like Picasso, but when seventh grade came along that all changed. I watched CSI Miami for the first time in middle school and I knew that I wanted to help people and to ease their
Like a stalker, I researched Forensic Pathologist online in middle school, found a person by the name of Donald Jason, and told him about my passion and how I wanted to become a Forensic Pathologist and what I should do. He sent me a pdf file of all the things I needed to know about the different kinds of pathology, the level of education and the importance of a Pathologist job. It also said that most Pathology were old white men because of the many years it takes most women decides to do something else. That’s when I and up my mind that medicine was not a choice but a must, I not only wanted to help the dead victims, to be their ears, eyes and mouth and to save lives but I wanted to encourage other females to never give up on their