Why this Major?

Let me start off by telling a story. When I was a little baby my mother babysat, up until the I went into the first grade. After I went into the first grade she became a paraprofessional in the field of Special Education, she did this for 10 years. a month after my 16th birthday my mother died suddenly from Type A flu in less than 24 hours, and there was nothing I could do to save her. So I was not even thinking of college after that, my thought process was I couldn’t save her so I was going to save as many people as I could. My senior year of high school came around and I had applied to the United States Coast Guard Academy and got in. Well, my body didn’t agree with that because I had knee surgery 6 months before I was going to be shipped off to NC for training, so they had to decline me. I was angry and hurt and mad at God because I thought that was what he wanted me to do, I though he wanted me to save people. I had a lot of down time during my recovery and I began to think about when my mom was alive and I was just a freshman in high school. When I had a home softball game I would have some down time and would go over to the elementary and help her with the special education students in her class, and I loved it. I remember looking at my mother and seeing the joy she had for not only her job but for her students that she was teaching. After she passed I felt like her joy her passion for those students came within me and something came over me and made me realize that I have that same passion. So after all the recovery time and thinking through about changing my plans I decided not only to attend Southwestern Christian University on a softball scholarship, but to make not only my mother and myself happy, but for the future children I will be able to teach and make a difference in their lives.

This is why I choose SCU and even though I did not plan to go to college at first God always has a plan and always will have a plan.