Hello! My name is Emma, and I play the flute, love cats, and enjoy listening to music and playing games in my free time. Other than hanging out and jamming with my cats, I am about to wrap up my freshmen year at Hill College, and I am very excited and proud to be able to say that I am majoring in psychology. Ever since I was a freshman in high school, I have had a strong passion for almost anything relating to psychology. This actually started all thanks to the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, which I had to take for an assignment in one of my classes. After answering various questions about your personality and social life, the results of this test not only discuss your personality type but also what career path may be right for you. I distinctly remember getting my results and being confused when I saw "psychology and counseling" on my list of probable career paths because I honestly don't think I ever truly knew what the term psychology meant. Nevertheless, after doing a bit of quick research, I became really intrigued by this field, which I believed was all dedicated to studying the mind, and why people do what they do. Today, now that I have started college and actually begun studying psychology, I have grown to realize that it is so much more than what I previously thought, which makes me all that much more excited to someday work in this field. Having a career in psychology is not just about studying our minds and actions, but also advocating for mental health and helping people, which is exactly what I want to spend my life doing. I am not completely sure what exact career I will end up pursuing just yet, but I am certain that I want to help people and make a real change, specifically in the way mental health is viewed in our society. There is and has always been such a negative stigma surrounding mental health, and even if this may sound impossible or over-ambitious of me to say, I hope that by dedicating myself to the mental health and psychology fields, whether that be through research or counseling, I can help reduce or even eliminate this stigma. I believe that big change starts with small actions, and whether I make a difference to one or thousands of people in my career and life, I am determined to leave this world a better place. This is why this field has stuck out so much to me over the years, and also why I have such an undeniable passion for this subject. No matter how long, grueling, or stressful my journey to accomplishing my goals is, I am determined to advocate for mental health, and for people, and to ultimately help this world become a more accepting, warmer, place for all of us.