Have you discovered your passion for a particular subject or a cause?
I walked into the exhibit early, before any of the guests were allowed to enter. It was quiet, besides the birds talking to each other, and asking to be fed. Without all the crowds of the thousands of people who walked through each day, the rainforest exhibit was my favorite. There were so many different types of birds; I could never find them all. There were monkeys living like a married couple in what seemed to be their own section of the exhibit, and sloths that only moved when you weren't watching. To be up there and watch the exhibit when no one else could was the most rewarding experience of my summer internship at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
I put on my royal blue shirt and khaki shorts every Sunday that summer, it was one uniform that made me more proud that any other. I loved when visitors would come and tell me how lucky I was, or how neat it was that I had this job, but my favorite part was being able to answer their questions. I learned more than I could imagine that summer, about everything from horseshoe crabs, to bats.
Often time's visitors would question me about what I planned to do in the future as far as colleges went, and before the Aquarium, I had no idea. By the second time I got this question I was able to answer confidently, "This!" I explained to them I wanted to study biology and maybe marine biology. The more times I explained this, the more passionate I got, I realized that all of the things they had taught me at the Aquarium only left me wanting to learn more.
That summer I had more than just and internship, or a volunteer job, I had a new enthusiasm for biology. I wanted to now more than just why fish were shaped the way they were, or why they were a certain color, I yearned for answers about the plants I saw, and how all of these things worked, not just how they looked. I could never thank the staff at the Aquarium in Baltimore enough, they allowed me to expose my self to so much and broaden my horizons to a new found confidence and most importantly an answer to the infamous question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
I walked into the exhibit early, before any of the guests were allowed to enter. It was quiet, besides the birds talking to each other, and asking to be fed. Without all the crowds of the thousands of people who walked through each day, the rainforest exhibit was my favorite. There were so many different types of birds; I could never find them all. There were monkeys living like a married couple in what seemed to be their own section of the exhibit, and sloths that only moved when you weren't watching. To be up there and watch the exhibit when no one else could was the most rewarding experience of my summer internship at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.
I put on my royal blue shirt and khaki shorts every Sunday that summer, it was one uniform that made me more proud that any other. I loved when visitors would come and tell me how lucky I was, or how neat it was that I had this job, but my favorite part was being able to answer their questions. I learned more than I could imagine that summer, about everything from horseshoe crabs, to bats.
Often time's visitors would question me about what I planned to do in the future as far as colleges went, and before the Aquarium, I had no idea. By the second time I got this question I was able to answer confidently, "This!" I explained to them I wanted to study biology and maybe marine biology. The more times I explained this, the more passionate I got, I realized that all of the things they had taught me at the Aquarium only left me wanting to learn more.
That summer I had more than just and internship, or a volunteer job, I had a new enthusiasm for biology. I wanted to now more than just why fish were shaped the way they were, or why they were a certain color, I yearned for answers about the plants I saw, and how all of these things worked, not just how they looked. I could never thank the staff at the Aquarium in Baltimore enough, they allowed me to expose my self to so much and broaden my horizons to a new found confidence and most importantly an answer to the infamous question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
