As a child I never had any grand ideas about what I want to do when I was an adult. I just always loved school and was very enthusiastic about learning. I also was very family oriented and knew that one of the things that I wanted to do in my life was to have a family and raise kids. Part of this maybe from being the oldest child and the oldest grandchild in my family, I always had the role of organizing my siblings and cousins which I enjoyed, and still do. I have also always been very people oriented; I never enjoyed spending time alone and always liked talking and interacting with people.
When I went to college I chose to go to Lewis & Clark after thinking for years that I wanted to go back east. At the last minute I chickened out and decided that I really wanted to stay in the Northwest and attend school. Lewis & Clark had been the only school that I applied to in Oregon and so Lewis & Clark became my only option for undergrad. Overall it was a great decision for me. When I started school I thought I was going to be into international affairs, I had lived a year overseas and had done lots of traveling and thought it would be neat to work abroad. But after Introduction to International Affairs I realized that the major was not for me, it was too theoretical and not what I was looking for. My fall back was history. I had loved history and social studies in primary and secondary school and had heard great things about Lewis & Clark’s history department. My parents were supportive of my switch but were curious what I thought I could do with a history degree. My dad, a lawyer thought the obvious choice was law school, but I was not so sure. I decided to take an education class my sophomore year to test out teaching. I fell in love with teaching in that class and it all started to make sense, everything that I had been looking for in a career teaching had and much more.
As someone who is always looking forwarding and planning for the next step in my life, going to graduate school immediately after graduation seemed like the obvious choice for me. I knew that I wanted to stay in Oregon and applied to several schools, most notably University of Portland and Lewis & Clark. I was torn about where to attend, I had a positive experience at my interview at UP and liked that idea of getting a dual credential in Elementary and Middle School. I talked to several educators and people who had been through the Lewis & Clark program and all of them thought that the Lewis & Clark’s program was by far the best. I also felt that I had such a great time in the undergrad what was the point in leaving something that had been so supportive of me. So ultimately I decided to stay at Lewis & Clark. I have very happy with my decision to stay and now can’t imagine what this experience would be like without Cohort 1 and the Lewis & Clark teaching staff.
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