Reflection #1

One of the most influential events in my education was trying to pick a college my senior year in high school.  All of my friends had decided where they were going, but I still had no idea where I wanted to go or what I wanted to study.  I wanted to stay close to home, but other than that I had no ideas.  My parents had been trying to get me to go to Dayton, but it was too far from home.  I sat down one day in one of my classes started talking to one of my friends.  She said she was going to Butler to study Elementary Education.  I decided that was what I was going to do as well.  As dumb as that sounds, I went to Butler and started out as an Elementary Education major.  Although I only stayed at Butler for two years and changed my major multiple times, this was what really got me thinking about becoming a teacher.  My last semester at Butler I changed my major back to Elementary Education and got a job at a daycare.  After working at the daycare I decided to come to Ball State to study Early Childhood Education.  Now I am here, all because one day in high school my friend said she was going to study Education and I thought it sounded like a good enough idea to me.