Done!!

This is my last post, and I am done! It is excited to think that I am almost done with my first semester! I have been looking back, and I have noticed everything is changing in my life. I just had my first day at my job today, and I am in a huge a dilemma. I am so indecisive on what college I still want to go to. I have so many things coming up in my life, and I feel like I do not have that much time. I mean I am a senior, and this class and all my others have flown by. I cannot wait to get started with my life! The only sad thing is I have to comment a couple more times. I think I did them wrong because I exited out before I made sure they were on there so I did not for sure. But I am going to go over just to make sure that I have enough. I am also kind of excited for our exam I think that it will be interesting to see what everyone has to say. I think if one is doing the change it will be awesome to see how they felt they changes over the year by Professor Piro. I do have to say mine has changed for the better! I have more confidence, and I see that I am making more mistakes. Next I feel that even though these blogs seem hard to force yourself to do it actually helps you. I feel like my writing has grown just through these blogs! Thanks so much for reading these blogs, and your input! Have a great rest of the year!

Other Class

I cannot believe that I am almost done with all of my classes this semeters. I really enjoyed the psychology. I find it good that I really enjoyed this class because of what I am going into I will need a lot of this types of classes. I just find everything we learned so interesting, and I found myself wanting to learn more. I just cannot believe that this class is almost over. We learned in a little bit of a different way then I am use to. I am use to teachers giving  long lectures, and having to try to pick out the important parts to write down. Do not get me wrong I am good at this, but I am thinking it makes it easier to focus on the overall lesson the way my professor did it. She would have us print off packets, and she would project a powerpoint for us to fill in the blanks. I thought this was really nice compared to my psychology teacher at t he high school. We have to write down the points he says, and I like that too because I do not have to write as muchy down. I am at an advantage over some of the other students in my class. Since I have being taking it at college first I understand most of the material we are going over. I am so happy that this class is over because it is one step closer to me getting older, and going into the career I want. I am also sad because it means I may have to learn a whole new way of teacher from an other professor that I have never had before. I decide not to take abnormal psychology instead I am taking sociology. I hope that my next classes go as well as my classes I had this semester!

College visit

Today I took a college visit to Findlay and I loved it. The small campus style environment is me. I liked that fact the student to teacher ratio in classes is 16 to 1. It also has one of the best occupational therapy programs around here. I actually had the opportunity to have a graduate of the occupational therapy program take me around. She was very energetic about the program. The thing that worries me about this program is that not many get in to the program. So I do not want to waste a lot of money because this school is private which makes it expensive not to get in the program. It is really hard to decide because I am not sure if I should stay at Rhodes and get my assistants. Rhodes also has a small student to teacher ratio. The hard thing is not knowing if I want to get my full occupational therapy or assistants then go on after a year of work. Another go thing about Rhodes is it is so much cheaper than most colleges. I want the college experience, but I do not want to have to pay so much and be in a lot of debt. I really enjoyed the overall experience though. I just need to apply to a lot of scholarships to help with this if I want to go there. It looks like I have a major choice. I just do not want to regret it and waste all the money and have to be in so much debt. Hopefully I can decide this really soon, and know what I want. 

This Summer and Things to Look Forward to

I CANNOT WAIT FOR CHRISTMAS BREAK!  I am so excited because this summer I went to Buckeye Girls State, and that experience made my high school years. Yes it was nerve-racking at first rooming with a stranger, and not knowing the people near you because you were separated for the others that went to your school. I was nervous the first day, but I let my personality show. After the second day I never wanted to leave. This girls had become a huge part of my life. I became close to about four girls, but two I became best friends with. We exchanged numbers and we frequently talk to each other. This girls live close to each in communities near Dayton so we have talked and we are getting together. I cannot wait it has been so long! It is like going 6 months with out seeing someone really important to you. I still find it hard to believe that in a week these girls and I became so close. I just hate that we have to be far apart because if we were not I know we would do everything together. I also cannot believe the impact that program had on me. I learned some much while I was there, and I not only learned about the government but some truly amazing stories from some really strong girls that overcame big obstacles in their lives. One girl wrote me the sweetest note on the third day, and I still have it. When ever I feel down I look at this note and it picks me right up. Those girls that I met are not people you will ever forget that taught me so much, and I am so lucky I met each and everyone of them. They are true inspirations to me, and I know that they are true friends even if I did not get to know them for very long; they just portray that character. I hope that this bond we all have will last a lifetime because I am so blessed I got to meet them all!

Career

So my paper for college goes great with my career. I want to study occupational therapy, and the topic I found that was a major problem was home health care. Most patients that receive this are home bound, but what about the dependability factor? This means that someone has to be able to drive well or have a family member take them. I absolutely loves my interview! I meet with a girl that does outpatient care in a build near our town hospital. The way she talked about her job made me want to just start doing it now. She even told me about all the environments she had the opportunity to work in. You could yell just by talking to her she loved it, and was happy with the career choice she made. She also had a great bubbly personality that made the interview and conversation just flow. I just loved the environment, the things she had to say,  and the over all idea of the job. Needless to say I can not wait until I am that young lady sitting there giving another young dreamer of this career the passion to do it! I just can not wait to see what my future as a occupational therapist has in store for me. I always dreamed about working with kids but I know that when it comes to that part of the therapy it is hard to get onto because everyone wants to work with kids. So I feel like working in a hospital or a nursing home might be better until a job in the kid aspect of it comes up. I do not mind either way because I know I will be doing what I love. I do not even mind that I may have to work weekends or holidays because to me it is all worth it if I can just make one person's day by helping them. I can not wait until I can finally do that!  It will be the best day of my life!

In class: Fun day in the class

Today we did something different, and I really enjoyed it! I am not a big gamer, but when it comes to random facts, and stuff over what we learned I am your girl! English is not my strong point, I will admit it, but it is more because of my writing skills. I am the type of person that can talk very properly, but not write it. This game was more of my thing than writing my papers. I read the chapters, but not in so much detail that I thought I would have to reflect upon it, but it was a nice challenge. I am really good at the paraphrase, summary, and quotes portion because last year in high school we had a whole class dedicated to writing a research paper, and in that class we went over the proper way to do those things so many things it just stuck with me. So when we started the game I knew that would be my strong, but I was was a little uneasy about the readings though. Lucky one of my members could recall a lot of the information on those readings. It was nice to do it this way I had not had a chance to talk to many of the people in the class, and this was a fun way to get to do that. I do have to say my group was really lucky by winning only by one point. I really enjoyed this class it add something different to this class.

Read response #8

I thought that this was a very interesting topic. I was not very informed on this issues. Well to be honest I had no idea what it was anyways ha. I really like how the author Burnett used so many examples to prove his point. For example Burberry says "while state forests in Montana made $13.3 million, Montana's 10 national forests lost $42 million." That static hits you hard because it is hard to believe that our nation is losing money on there forest while state ones are gaining. This all seems so unethical. If this topic is on the same side for both political groups why do they not just come up with a compromise and make it so we do mpt lose that money. Everyone even has it wrong most talk about how logging is bad but it is not the true loser of money maybe we should look at the top ones and find awat to cut it and help with is problem. I also liked the formatting of his paper it was cert precise. He stated the issues with a lot of facts to back it up which makes this very credible. Then he goes on to what needs to be done. That shows how my paper should be formatted, and also that I need to have a lot of good accurate, non-argumentive facts. He solution is not only ethical, but practical. It also helps out a lot of people in the long run. I really enjoyed this passage, and it will really help me with the writing of my paper.