My name is Marlee. I'm a 16 year-old dreamer / aspiring graphic designer / fashion / music loverrr ! I'm at a crossroads in my life, a defining turning point. Next year I will be graduating highschool and going off to college but I'm still not sure what I want to do with my life as of yet. I'm stuck in the middle of two paths: being a rebel and being an arts major (graphic/web design) OR becoming a pediatric RN. Yeah I know pretty drastically DIFFERENT paths!

I'm a creative person, I love to work with space filling it with images, colors, and fonts. My sister and I ran our own website/blog for about five years and we designed our own layouts using photoshop and CSS/HTML. I find myself at ease just making layouts on my own just for the pleasure of it and that's why I'd know I'd be good at web design and if I learned more about programming I could become great. I find myself critiquing websites that I stumble upon, finding ways that they could better convey the message they want to portray to the visitor. I love making projects for school that involve starting from scratch, getting inspired, and creating imagery through posterboard and/or powerpoints.


All in all I'm just a very creative being. I LOVE love LOVE to write poetry or simply write my thoughts down as I am writing now. I currently attend an academy with a curriculum based on the health field; it's basically a college prep high school on a campus with other career-centered academies. It's pushing me towards a career in the health field but is it normal to possibly want to become a nurse but to absolutely be disgusted by math?! I'm more of an English class type of person though I do well in all of my classes. My dilemma is I'm just afraid that if I go down the path of becoming a nurse I won't get the opportunity to channel my creative/artsy drive. I'm afraid that one day I'm going to wake up and regret choosing that path. Whatever I do in life, I want to make sure that I'm happy and that I have a career that I love.

My family knows that I do well in school and I have the potential to become a doctor if I wanted to but I don't want to fail nor do I want to do something just because it is expected of me (and did I mention i absolutely despise math?!). In my family most of the women are nurses and the health field is the most prized career. It's the financial aspect of it all also. It's pretty much guaranteed that I'll make a decent paycheck being a pediatric RN and I'll also be able to afford all the luxuries in life that I desire while supporting my future family.


So. . . .starving artist or family-friendly pediatric RN ?