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Becoming A Speech Pathologist
Coming into my senior year not knowing what I wanted to go to college for was very frustrating. Family and friends were giving me all kinds of different ideas and I could never just decide on one. It was very frustrating trying to find something that I would love to do for the rest of life. My mom finally suggested something that caught my eye and that was speech pathology. I researched about and thought about it so I decided I would give it a shot. I finally job shadowed a speech pathologist and I feel in love with the career. I loved getting to experience the things they do to help people and knowing that I will be able to help people in my future is the best feeling. Knowing that it is hard to get accepted into the program and it is going to be very expensive, I could not be anymore excited. It is going to be very hard but I know that I am going to be able to do it because I want it bad enough. If someone wants something bad enough they will do their best at what they are wanting and get it.
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