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A Career In Forensic Psychology
During my first two years of high school I was pretty set on majoring in psychology. I always had a fascination with the human mind and was eager on learning more about it, yet I still couldn't help but feel like that wasn’t exactly what I wanted to pursue. Towards the end of my sophomore year I began to take an interest in learning about crime stories.
I would spend hours glued to my television, computer screen, and books trying to rack up my brain with information of unsolved murders, missing people cases, and serial killers. As shocking as many cases seemed, I couldn’t help but be fascinated. This lead me to be even more curious about the human mind, making me wonder how a human was capable of doing such horrific things. I wanted to know what could be the cause of it all, perhaps childhood trauma or mental illness. Nonetheless, I found looking at criminals from a psychological perspective incredibly interesting.
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Becoming a forensic psychologist was the one that seemed closest to what I was interested in, but it still didn’t seem to be exactly what I was looking for. Learning about the mind in general was definitely interesting, but I knew I wanted to major in something that focused on studying the behaviors of criminals specifically. So went home and did a bit of research and I started exploring in the sociology field. Upon further research I discovered exactly what I was looking for,

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