Assignment 6 Danielle Dutton

My frequent problem is that I don’t have just one thing that interests me. When people ask me what I want to do with my life I can never come up with an answer, not because nothing interests me, but because too many things interest me. I was looking up possible college majors the other day and all my searches just kept leading me to more and more intriguing majors. I have no idea how I’ll choose just one. They’re not even limited to one field. I’ve considered majors from education (various types) to engineering (various types) to neuroscience to speech pathology. And I’m sure the list will keep growing. With two engineer parents, engineering is basically in my blood, so that option has been on my radar for almost as long as I can remember. However, as I am introduced to more in school and through my own curiosities, I’ve been intrigued by different types. When I was younger I considered mechanical engineering like my mom. As my 8^th grade science teacher taught me chemistry (it was really all she knew how to teach because she had worked in a lab at UK for years before she taught), I thought about chemical engineering. Recently biomedical engineering has also entered my thoughts. I’ve always loved helping others and teaching (especially math), so education has been on my mind for a long time as well. Psychology has always interested me, and this summer after reading The Teenage Brain, neuroscience became fascinating. And my recent research led me to speech pathology. There’s just too much I want to learn. Every time I think I’ve found the thing that interests me most I investigate too much and am led to another. It’s a struggle. But I guess wanting to learn too much is better than not wanting to learn anything.