Hmmmm… what to do four years from now?
**The following is the second of eight parts of an essay that Chiquitita wrote when she was 19 years old.**
Exactly
four years from December 1, 1999 I will be 22 years, 284 days old. That is a hypothetical statement for I do not
know if I will be around then (I sure hope!). By that time I hope that
my undergraduate days are over, and hope that my graduate years be on their
way. Or I might find myself working as a
simple programmer in order to get the adequate experience to become a program
analyst (for that is my under graduate preparation).
Exactly
a year ago, I was an education major who did not know where would she be a year
from now (let alone four years). My
options were very broad, colorful and so different from one another. But
neither seemed to be something that I wanted to do for the next three years.
But thanks to what I call “Divine Inspiration” I decided to try for what I
swore one day I’ll never be: a business student. After carefully analyzing all my options,
reading several ads in the newspaper and being introduced to the wonderful
world of the World Wide Web, I decided to go for a BBA in Computer
Information Systems.
To this day I have not regretted it and I don’t think I ever will,
on the contrary, I have that to this day I have plenty of things to be grateful because of that
decision. One of them is my emerging
desire to teach at the university level and my fondness for mathematics.
Nevertheless,
during the course of this investigation various people, including my recently
acquired role models, putted my newborn aspirations to the test. Some of them, out
of good faith, pointed me to other ways and made me think twice about the main
objective of this investigation: “ finding out what does it take to be a college professor of mathematics or a related field”
