Life from my side has been quite complicated. I cannot complain much as some part of my life has been interesting. I am a young girl of Nigerian origin who has been struggling to catch up with the kind of life with the people from different races. From the beginning of my school life, I have been a hardworking girl, and self-determined. I always wanted to be a microbiologist when I grow up. I got this inspiration from my uncle, John who was a successful microbiologist that I looked up to. John used to live a few blocks from our home and I usually spent some time with him in his private lab in his home where he would conduct his own biological experiments. He would teach me some new biological skills and I would sometimes give a hand in some experiments. At first, I never had an interest in biology but in the long run, I developed an interest in biology since I found performing biological experience being much involving and interesting. I had psychologically developed an interest in science. Therefore, I did not even think twice and chose to major in Biology when I joined the university.
I was so excited that this was the moment that I would finally fulfill my desires. My greatest ambition was to join the university and major in biology so that I would eventually graduate and be a microbiologist like my uncle John. Upon joining my first level in the university, so was extremely excited and I quickly got on board with the program and began my biology classes immediately. I was such a serious and motivated student as I would not miss attending classes. Moreover, I made library my chilling spot and often visited it to read more so that to better my understanding for the class teachings and as well to ensure that I was ahead and not left behind. Things were going on smoothly in my introduction classes and I was seriously in love with my major.
I made friends with some students in the school. I turned out that Jane eventually became my best friend whom I hang out most often both when in and out of school. She was such a great friend who was always there for me and we had developed a strong bond that no one would easily separate us. Jane was majoring in psychology. Being a psychology student she like exercising psychological concepts she had learned from her course in real life situations. I was so impressed with how such psychological concepts could apply to real life situations. This looked interesting. For instance, she would study someone’s behavior and tell what the person is going through and she would offer to talk to that person offering advice in a professional and effective way. I was so amazed by the power of psychology. I got a perception that psychology tends to help people. Helping other people has been my ambition, I like helping other people. When I realized that psychology focuses on the psychological and even emotional feeling of other people and that it tends to address psychological and emotional issues, it gave me second thoughts on changing my major from biology.
I began having the urge of learning other people’s behavior since I found it interesting. I wanted to get to know how to detect when someone is lying just like how Jane would tell when I was lying or even when there is something that was bothering me. Jane would detect many things that were going on within me of which other people would not see at all. I started having the feeling that psychology is the best major as it gives a better understanding of life and human behavior as Jane kept hyping psychology. I kept admiring Jane as she would look more intelligent and in fact look like a genius when she would study someone’s behavior and determine what is disturbing him or her psychologically. A thing that no ordinary person, not even me would do. I wanted to be like her, so as to be able to help other people too and as well get to have a better understanding of some life events and human behaviors that I come across so as to interact with them efficiently.
At this point, I was already influenced and my motivation to professional career had now been affected. I no longer viewed biology as I used to. I began taking my biology classes less serious and would sometimes miss some classes. My visits to the library to study biology change to reading psychology books. You would mostly find me researching on psychology related issues. As time went by, things got more complicated. Biology was now being a nutshell, hard to crack. Day by day, biology became harder and harder. Anyway, I knew that nothing is easier in this world and I opted in embraces the common phrase “when the going gets tough, the harder you become.” I believed that things will get better and as well I put in more effort in my studies so as to make things better. At some point, I came to realize that I no longer liked biology and that was why biology had begun being hard for me. Other students were passing while I failed. My interest in even carrying out biology experiments was no longer there. Experiments that usually interested me began being boring and I would find them being tiresome and a complete waste of time.
After some months my first level, I made decisive moved and applied to change my course to major in psychology. My request was granted and I joined Jane to major in psychology. I was very impressed and quickly picked up with the studies. In my second level, I was performing very well as I was fairing on well in the new course. My experience with psychology major was incredible as I felt that that was the life that I was aspiring for. I enjoyed putting into practice the concept that I learned in class. To add on that, in my third level, I got the opportunity to go for an attachment at a local hospital where I majored in offering counseling services to various patients. For once, I was feeling very useful and professional at that moment. Now that I am in my fourth grade, I am overwhelmed that I am almost completing my course and I am in no way regretful for changing my major from biology to psychology. In fact, shifting to psychology course is the greatest decision that I have ever made. I am now a psychologist which inapt psychological concepts who is due to graduate soon. I cannot wait for that moment.