This article is one of the winning submissions from the New York Post Scholars Contest , presented by Command Education .
“No…don’t be a teacher.”
I was taken aback, shocked by the warning. Having reunited with one of my old elementary school teachers for the first time in nearly eight years, we had begun catching up with one another. Questions like “How is school” and “What’s been going on” eventually led to the most pressing one: “What do you want to do after you graduate college?”…