Aspirations for my Last Year at Cal High

 Where has the time gone? Its seems like just yesterday I was walking into Cal High for my first time!   Even though high school has been a journey of a lifetime, I am definitely ready to move forward onto bigger and better things. Although Senior Year is going to be stressful with applications and whatnot, I will hopefully succeed in getting into the college of my dreams. I really want to go out of state for college to experience a different atmosphere and to really focus on my passion. For the moment, my passion is criminal justice/forensics.  This past year, I was fortunate enough to take the forensics class at Cal and to experience what its like to be in a crime lab. We had many objectives throughout the year and sometimes the stress hit you like a brick. Overall though I realized during this course that what really interests me is being a homicide detective. Being a homicide detective is a awesome job because it gets you out there on the scene and you get to have amazing friendships with the people you work with. There are downfalls to the job as well, but I believe it makes you stronger as a person.    During the process of trying to secure my internship, I had the opportunity to have an internship at the Oakland Crime Lab, but do to complications it had to be switched to the Dublin Police Department. I am happy that it switched because it is closer to Cal High and even before you become a homicide detective, you have to be a cop first. You have to work your way up from being a cop which I think is good because you will gain more experience and knowledge. At the Dublin Police Department I will be learning how police officers do there job and being able to experience what its like to work in a police department. This opportunity is going to help me expand my passion because I am able to start from the bottom and work my way up. With only about 200 days till graduation (give or take a few), I  realize that senior year is going to be fun, but challenging.  I plan to make my senior year the best one yet because it is the last time I will be seeing my class before we part ways next June. It is unbelievable how fast the journey's gone, but I am excited to move onto the next chapter in my life. Senior year will be a blast and I can't wait for you to experience my journey with me!