“Really my passion in life is helping people”

“In high school I was really interested in a lot of different things and that is kinda my personality; I love helping people though. So when I first started in high school I wanted to do anthropology, I wanted to do something for the sciences so it was really hard for me when I got here, to Ohio State, to pick my major. I started off in “University Exploration” and another aspect of my personality is I’m really bad at decision making but I need to have a direction or else I freak out. For me, freshman year was all about trying to find what I wanted to do. I had to narrow it down to just a few things and found out that science wasn’t right for me. I found out that everything I wanted to do in high school wasn’t right for me. What I did was, after my freshman year, I decided that I wanted to do public affairs and double minor to kinda focus in on what I wanted to do. Really my passion in life is helping people. What I decided to do was public affairs and then go to law school because I feel like the best way to help someone is by changing the system, not just individual help. I think really what you need to do is change the policies that are affecting everyone. For me, that is my direction but finding it was really crazy and scary but now I’m here and it worked”. – AJ F.