First blog post of the semester
1. Who are you grateful for who has helped you get to where you are today? (What was your situation? how did they help you? How did that help impact you in the moment and how has it led to where you are today? If you have a picture you'd like to share please do so with their permission.) I am grateful for my mother who encouraged me to follow my interests with a biology degree instead of pursuing an accounting degree, which she knew would lead to my eventual displeasure. I had just decided to leave my job as a retail store manager and come back to school, I had everything figured out. I told my mother that I would be going back to school for accounting, and she asked me why I didn’t go for something that would interest me more, I ended up changing my major to biology after that. The simple question she asked helped me to reevaluate why I was going back to school, and to understand that if I was going to take the risk of going back to school, it may as w...