Classrooms and halls bustled and rumbled with students waiting to hear scientists, business experts, engineers, artists and more shed light on the many possible career paths that any one of them could embark on.

For Career Day, on March 30, students had the opportunity to listen to different speakers talk about a variety of careers, ranging from the healthcare industry and filmmaking to entrepreneurship and advertising. Students signed up for their top four choices of speakers beforehand and were assigned two sessions via a Google spreadsheet from the administration.

“It was a really cool perspective on these different people’s lives and what they decided to do with them,” junior Joey Lalli said.

Lalli, who attended the ER medical doctor and recent business graduate sessions, said that attending the different speakers put things such as student debt and the different career paths you can take after college into perspective for him.

“Most of the speakers had chosen to be something else, but then decided to take the paths that ultimately put them where they are now,” Lalli said.

Lalli went on to say that his experience was enjoyable, but could see how things could be different if people didn’t get their first choice.

“There were technical difficulties in regards to the website which could have lead to the issues with students signing up and getting the sessions they wanted,” assistant principal Eric Mapes said “There was also a worry that we had too many sessions and not enough people signed up for certain speakers.”

Mapes said that there were 82 speakers offering expertise in 39 different fields, which was so much variety that some speakers were limited to only one session There may just simply have been too many speakers for the two session format presented to students.

“Generally I have heard a lot of positive feedback from students about it so far,” Mapes said. “And really if it helped a student have a kind of ‘ah-ha’ moment, then it served its purpose.”

“I’m here to talk about a career, but more so about the skill of problem solving and achieving a goal in a new and alternate way,” author Christina Gray said.

Gray, who is an author of cookbook about cooking meals safe for people with food allergies to eat, was turned down by a number of publishing companies before deciding to self-publish and advertise on her own.

When talking about success and pushing oneself to achieve their goals Gray said, “Sometimes it comes easy, sometimes it doesn’t.”