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>> My name is Yesenia Carvajal and I'm majoring in kinesiology.
I'm here at Cerritos so that I can be prepared when I transfer into a university.
And I plan to transfer to either UCLA, UC Irvine, or maybe Cal State Long Beach.
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>> In high school, I wasn't really focused in academics
because my mind was more towards athletics, so I was in track, I was in volleyball.
I played soccer for a while.
And athletics was the one thing that just got the best out of me,
so I didn't really care about my academics.
I didn't know my capabilities as a student, and I didn't expand those capabilities.
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>> Over this past year, I had to make tough choices between volleyball, my passion
and my sport, or my academic goals for my future.
To begin with, I started playing here
at Cerritos last summer 'cause I wanted to be part of the team.
But unfortunately, I got injured.
I had an injury in my right shoulder, which made me think, do I wanna keep playing
and keep getting injured, and that I'm not gonna get anything out of it,
or just start from now and focus on my academic career.
Another chance came by where another coach from West LA College wanted me to play for his team,
and there again, I was very tempted to go play.
But I mean I just had to think about it, I can't play, I can't-- I'm gonna keep getting injured,
and it's not gonna really benefit my future.
If anything it's gonna hurt me physically.
And I just decided that I can keep my passion for sports, well, with another direction,
with the direction that's safe for me, a direction that will benefit me
and that I can still do what I love.
So that lead me to connect the passion in my life, which is sports,
and another interest that I had, which was health.
It lead me to wanna take courses such as human anatomy, which I had taken in high school,
but I didn't pay attention to then because I didn't feel like it was important.
I can still focus my passion through majoring in kinesiology
where I can work in the field of sports medicine.
I can work with athletes who were hurt just like me but they can keep going in their career.
And I can also grow as a nutritionist, which I wanna learn about nutrition.
I can grow by learning about health and what my body needs to keep my body healthy
and live a longer life, longer and happier.
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