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Cait's dreams and things in between
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 4:45 PM
Cait Fitzpatrick has had many dreams throughout her life, many of which have been discarded or lost along the way. From dreams of becoming a fashion designer, and professional soccer player, one desire has remained static, but put on hold, becoming a speech pathologist.

“I have always had a fascination with language, Fitzpatrick began, “and this combines teaching with language on a one-on-one level, rather than a group. “I prefer teaching smaller groups rather than a large class.”

Fitzpatrick realized that she no longer wanted to teach when she was taking sophomore block at Hand Middle School. When I had sophomore block, teaching 6th grade, I had to teach poetry, and I did not like being in front of the whole class, I liked teaching the students individually,” she said.

“It was after I decided that I didn’t want my education degree, and I started to research other fields, that I found out about speech pathology,” Fitzpatrick said. I knew a little about the field before, but I never thought about it as a career.”
Fitzpatrick often regrets that she did not know about this field before entering college. “If I would have known about it right away I probably would have tried to pursue this career, but since I am not a fan f biology I do no think I could have succeeded,” Fitzpatrick explained. “I am more liberal arts oriented, and not science.”

Teaching has always been a dream of Fitzpatrick’s, but she knew that she would have to put her dreams on hold for a while. Speech Pathology would have to wait because she would have to go back to school for a biology degree. Not wanting to start over, she decided to pick up a journalism minor. “I really liked writing,” she said, “ and when I found out that Millersville had a journalism minor, I decided I wanted to jump right into that, and get my feet wet.”

Fitzpatrick has developed new dreams now, and is not letting her missteps hold her back. “My dreams is to become and editor of a famous magazine, but I realized I need to work from the bottom and make my way up. I have been researching reporting jobs outside f the PA area,” Fitzpatrick said.