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Tanner 1 Brittany Tanner Katherine Van Allen Developmental Psychology August 30, 2016 My name is Brittany Tanner, and I am from West End, North Carolina. I was born only a few minutes from West End in Pinehurst, North Carolina. I lived a few minutes from there, in Eagle Springs, and then moved to West End when I was three years old. I have lived there ever since. I am the oldest of five children. I have three brothers, Caleb, Layton, and Cullen, who are sixteen, ten, and six years old, respectively. I also have a sister named Rylee who is thirteen years old. When I started kindergarten, I attended West End Elementary school, and I stayed there through fifth grade. However, because my parents did not want me to be in public school in middle and high school, they moved me to Wescare Christian Academy for sixth grade. I did not have as good an experience there as I had hoped, and I left that school after one year and went to Fayetteville Street Christian School. I stayed at Fayetteville Street through ninth grade, but because of some problems with friends as well as the fact that my teachers did not teach very much, I left there, and my parents decided to try homeschooling. I used the Abeka Academy video program and watched all my classes on DVD from tenth grade until I graduated. I loved the Abeka program, and out of all the schools I went to, I liked homeschool the most. I was even able to go to Pensacola, where the Abeka DVDs are filmed, and graduate with about 600 other students who used the same program. I was also able to tour the school where my classes were filmed and meet most of my video teachers as well as some of the students that were on video. That is an experience that I am extremely grateful to have had.

Tanner 2 After high school, I knew I wanted to go to college, but I had a very hard time deciding where to go. Because I had done the Abeka program, I thought at first that I wanted to go to Pensacola Christian College, where the program was made. My parents, however, discouraged the idea because they didn’t feel that it would give me very many opportunities. My mom suggested Campbell, and after I finally decided to research it, I knew it was the perfect place for me. I had an even harder time deciding on a major. I considered everything, from teaching, to law enforcement, to surgery. I finally decided to become an engineer because of how much I had enjoyed the mechanics part of my twelfth grade physics class. I decided to go to NC State for engineering instead of coming to Campbell, but I was put on the waiting list. If I didn’t get in, then I would have no other option. I had been accepted to Appalachian, but I knew I didn’t want to go there, and I had been accepted to Campbell, but I didn’t think I could come here for mechanical engineering. My mom decided to set up a tour for me here since she knew that Campbell was where I really wanted to go. I came for the tour, heard about the engineering program, and decided that day to come here. I came to Campbell as a math major last fall with intentions to change to engineering when the program started this year. However, the semester had only just started when I realized that engineering was not what I wanted to do. I had never felt positive about it, but it had seemed to be the best thing I could come up with. I realized after only about a week of school that I didn’t want to do anything involving math at all, despite the fact that math was my major at that time. I had no idea what I wanted to major in. I researched different majors for several weeks before I randomly thought of psychology one day. I was confused by that thought because I had no idea what psychology even was and had never considered it as a major. My homeschool curriculum was extremely conservative, and because of that, they taught that psychology was

Tanner 3 sinful, and I never learned anything else about it. I didn’t agree with that idea, but because of it, I had no knowledge of the subject. As soon as I began to research psychology, I was positive that it was exactly what I was looking for, but I continued to research it and read about it for about a month before officially changing my major to be absolutely sure that I was making the right decision. I realized that I had always been interested in psychology, although I had not known that that was what it was. Despite the fact that my parents are not particularly happy about my decision, I know I made the right choice, and I am very happy with my major. I plan to pursue a doctorate in clinical psychology after I get my bachelor’s degree and then become a counselor for people with mental illnesses. Even though I have made a plan, I look forward to seeing where my degree actually takes me....