Assignment 19- Gloria Dietz

          I'm one of those people who looks at inspirational quotes and thinks they're cute and good advice and then when it's my life decisions throws it all out the window.  The thing is I don't take much advice to heart and even when I do it's usually a little different of a message than what the speaker of the advice meant.  

          But there's some pieces of advice that you're not really sure where they came from but you follow it anyway.

         One such piece of advice for me was the cliché: Do things because you want to do them and not because others want you to.  Again, I'm not sure where that advice came from but it's definitely impacted me a fair amount.  In 8th grade, when deciding what high school to attend my parents thought I should go to the MSTC program at Dunbar and I actually (because of that) had said yes to Dunbar and no to Henry Clay. Then I thought about it and I realized I didn't really want to go to Dunbar because I had less opportunity for exploration there (it was too focused of a program) and a lot of the things they forced you to take there weren't going to actually help me later on in life. So, literally two days after the deadline to decide I asked them if it was too late to switch and say I wanted to go to Henry Clay instead of Dunbar and obviously they let me switch and now I'm here. But, from then on I started trying to make more of my own decisions.