Personal Narrative: A Career In Animal Science

September 9th 2014 at approximately 3:30 in the afternoon. An ambulance pulls up outside of the trauma unit at Hasbro Children’s Hospital located in Providence, Rhode Island. It appears a family is waiting urgently outside of the ambulance doors. The giant white doors began to slowly open and out came a paramedic with a stretcher. Laying upon that stretcher with a neck brace and a backboard was a sixteen-year-old girl named Sara. Upon seeing Sara her family immediately surrounded the stretcher.
An older statured woman nearly jumped on top of her and screamed “OH MY GOD! MY POOR BABY!” and kissed her. The paramedic was overheard in the background saying “She fell from over twenty-five feet out of a tree at school. We had a forty-five-minute ride to get here. I started
Everything changed at end of the year and my dreams were crushed. Some majors at my school were very competitive and hard to get into. At the end of freshman year everyone got to pick their top three majors. Placements into majors were chosen by grades, and overall student involvement.
I was a very good student and had good grades, but I didn’t get placed into Large Animal Science. My year’s competition was very high for Animal Science Majors. I got placed into Arboriculture, and to be honest I wasn’t too thrilled at all. Arboriculture if you didn’t know is an industry focused on both the care and removal of trees. The program covered tree identification, chainsaw use and safety, machine operation, and tree climbing. Which, may sound like fun but I couldn’t picture myself doing it for a living.

My sophomore year started off rough because I didn’t enjoy my major at all. We would go out into the woods identifying different trees, learn about machinery, and climb trees. I liked tree identification for the most part, machinery bored me to death, but tree climbing began to spark an