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My name is Eva Roethler. I'm just entering my last semester at Arizona State University as a Human Nutrition major. Like most other students in Generation Y, my path through college has been long and indecisive.
I initially came to ASU as a Dance major, wanting to follow my dreams and see if I could make it as a professional. What I soon found out was that professional dancers do not need degrees in order to be successful. So, while I was stuck in school, I switched my major to Nutrition. I have always been a health savvy person. I thought that a job helping people lose weight and making diets would be SWEET. Little did I know how much chemistry was involved. So, 3 years and 6 semesters of chemistry later, I'm about to graduate with a nutrition degree. And now I'm not quite sure what to do.
Although getting my degree in Nutrition was not everything that I thought it would be, I learned several important things about myself by following that path:
1) I am an extremely creative person. Before college I spent hours and hours of my time each week writing, dancing, painting, and designing. Once I was neck deep into my chosen major, I started to CRAVE the occasional PowerPoint presentations and non-scientific paper assignments. Anything that would let me express a little bit of creativity was a breath of fresh air.
2) Research is cool. I used to envision researchers as nerds in a lab wearing sterile white coats and looking at everything through inch thick eyeglasses. But really, with all of the scientific papers I have written which summarize the stuff that these cats have discovered, I think research is amazing. Now I see it as more of getting to "control" experiments and figure out what happens. I would love to be a nutrition or biomedical researcher.
3)College education is starting to become more and more overrated. Networking is where it is at. I came to college without a second thought, because I knew it was what was ecpected of my generation. Now, when I look at my friends who are NOT $60K in debt and went to a trade school while working a "real" job, they have a LOT more options than I do.
And that's why I am here!
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