The Lion's Pride vol. 2 (Jun. 2014) | Page 118

111 Phoenix Sarah Allio I'm in my 7th quarter at Lake Washington Institute of Technology. This is an essay that I wrote on part of my life concerning the change of goals I've gone through. My long-term goals have changed over the course of my life. When I was little, I was very ambitious. I wanted to be a zoologist and a writer. As I entered my teens, I became confused, depressed; I didn’t know what I wanted in life. As a young adult in college, I am still working toward my goals. Although the path I am headed is a bit hazy, I still have a path nevertheless. Beginning at age six I wanted to be a zoologist. From as early as I can remember, I was preparing for this. As a young child I remember waking up early to sit in my living room to watch Steve Irwin’s “Crocodile Hunter” on the Animal Planet channel; you could consider him to have been my idol. Seeing him v