Personal Narrative: Becoming A Marine Veterinarian

There is a fire that ignites within me when I talk about my aspirations in life. A fire that burns so brightly that it can not only be seen physically in the way my hazel eyes light up, but felt radiating from my soul through the conversations that others have with me. Even when I was younger this fire always burned within me to better the world and aid those suffering in it. For some of my friends this same fire manifested into them becoming doctors, for me however it manifested into becoming a marine mammal veterinarian.
As a young girl growing up in the rolling cornfields of Indiana I was cut off from the ocean, yet it still called to me. I saw the impact that the mistakes of humanity had on the ocean and its inhabitants. I saw the oil