You know... I always saw myself being in the medical field, but I never thought it would be Dentistry.   

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Let me just tell you though, I only went to Community College and went through so many phases of my college career saying I wanted to do Nursing, Culinary Arts, HDFS, and now Dentistry. 

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Because I was like other College students and didn't know what I wanted to do, I took classes that I did not were not needed on my transcript and I even failed semesters.

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It wasn't until my "senior year" of college, where I saw the advertisement for Dental Assisting at my college and said: "why not?". I went to the orientation and I was excited enough to where I gave my information and applied right away. 

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I had my prerequisites that they needed except for one class, so I wasn't accepted during the first round, let alone because of my prior lack of commitment in my previous semesters, I was nervous about my GPA and the way my transcript looked. 

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But it wasn't until mid June when the program director sent me the email that I was accepted and that orientation starts in August. 

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From that day till December, I was at my schools Dental Assisting program with 7 classes in one semester. I thought I was going to fail because of how I previously was, but I got through the semester with A's and B's for the first time for my college career  and today I am still working on getting my CDA license (certified dental assistant).

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Till this day, I am already working as a dental assistant and love every bit of it!

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But of course, my ambitions are high for the dental field, and I hope one day I can go to Dental school and become a DMD dentist, but for a more realistic goal? I'm shooting for dental hygienist. 

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-Claire