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Here's my first essay. Be completely honest about whatever you think! Katie Hand 9:30-10:45 Tuesday/Thursday Rhetoric/Comp. Lovin Essay 1 Due Feb. 9 My College Education Past, Present, Future In the Fall of 2008, I was going to school at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I had been there for about five weeks before I was told I had Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer and had to come home. In a weird way, it was a bit of a relief to be able to come back because my roommate was a royal bitch. The five weeks I was there, I was failing Calculus, loved Biology, hated my English class and was doing alright in my History class. I was having fun with activities and friends on the weekends, but the actual college learning part wasn't going exactly how I pictured it going since freshman year of high school. Fall '09 comes and I think I can get up and handle a few classes. I sign up for two and it all basically goes downhill from there on the business part of college, not this time on the learning part. This semester, Spring '10, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. When I get out of college, I am thinking about getting my degree in Psychology, different than I first had in mind, Marine Biology. Fall 2009 I decided to get myself up and start again with school. At this point, I have almost been literally brain dead chemo brain as the nurses at the hospital like to call it. I go to SWIC and sign up for classes all by myself and I end up being told that I have to take Geometry, which I hate and have already taken and I decided on taking Photography. I have always wanted to learn more about Photography and I was pretty excited about it. I go through Geometry better than I had in high school, I tried harder, I got help for myself and actually cared. I found out four weeks left of Geometry that I did not need to take it and got frustrated and stopped trying. I am not really sure why I did that, but I did, and ended up with a B, much better than high school. Along with troubles in Geometry, I wasn't having persay troubles in Photography, but I learned absolutly nothing from the teacher. I had to ask my friend how to devleop the film and photos and ask around how to make my pictures better. I am still going through trouble with the counselors and financial aid aspect with wrong classes and tuition credits. It has been a little frustrating attending here because of the mix up in classes, and that I was told I would have a tuition credit done before Christmas and it is February and it is still not even close to being able to go through. This semester, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. So far I am not needing to go search for any help. My Sociology class is alright, I am not interested in that class as I am others. The teacher likes to go off on other topics related to Sociology, but not the exact idea that we are talking about. It is a complete, culture shock, I guess you can say. I have always only had white kids and teachers at school, that basically think one boring way and basically agree on every little boring thing. I have had a black boyfriend before, and a job with different races, but attending school from all white to a whole bunch of different people and different teachers, and everyone have a whole bunch of different ideas, it is new, and I love it. I also love Psychology. The teacher is a little out there, reminds me of my Ceramics teacher in high school. Growing up I have wanted to be almost everything under the sun with having a Psychology major as one of them. I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology. I took Earth Science in 7th grade, so it has been a while, but me wanting to do Marine Biology, I also like this class. Not so much the lab part of it, but the class and material in general, I like. I have a feeling these four chapter exams are going to kill me if I do not get my act together. Right now we are learning about astronomy. When I was growing up, I wanted to major in it, but actually I am glad I am only taking it for a chapter or two. It is interesting how it is all made, and how we have the calendar and things like that, but I would rather take sitting on a blanket looking at the stars, moon and planets any day. Like I have said before, I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology and maybe minor in Criminal Justice. I have always thought I was going to have a Marine Biology degree and work with dolphins my whole life. Then I started taking classes I need for a Marine Biology degree. It is not easy and I am not exactly academically inclined. Calculus... not happening. Physics...not happening. I hate math and everything that has to do with it. I love animals, so where ever I move, I am wanting to volunteer at the local Rescue area. While I was going through Hodgkins treatment, my parents got me SCUBA diving lessons and in the past year I have become a licensed SUCBA diver. So I am thinking I will become a victim advocate and with my vacation time, swim with dolphins and learn about the ocean on my own time, without the awful math. A victim advocate, according to * http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/jobdeda/Jobs_Victim%20Services.htm*, Performs highly interactive and assistance duties directly working with victims, in the case management and service referral functions. Which basically I can do anything from attend court with the victim, be a voice for them, once a crime happens, I would be at the hospital or police station and they can just tell me what happened, yell at me for what happened, or I can just sit with them and let them have a shoulder to cry on. I can work with any age group, young kids to the elderly and husbands and wives in abusive relationships. I like to help people so I think this would be a good fit. I am pretty sure I have been accepted to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The whole SWIC not working right with my tran_script_s and SIUC taking their time on looking through my information is what is keeping me from being officially admitted. I want to get out of Illinois badly, but it is kind of too late to get in anywhere else, so I'm thinking a year there, become a junior and move out to my brother's house in Maryland to be closer to my 2 month old nephew and finish my Psychology degree at Maryland University and be close to the water. In Fall '08, I had a different approach to school than I do now. I had was thinking about a different degree, I was healthier, and I had my mind more focused on what it was that I wanted. The past year and a half I have learned which type of classes I can academically understand, and which I can not. I have learned how to take care of things on my own, like signing up for school and dealing with the counselors and all the other departments I had trouble with and what I would like to do when I finish my education. I hope SWIC can give me more experience and education on other things before I leave here in May.
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<http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhjb8qrq_2d4zs6cgd Here's my first essay this semeste. Be completely honest about whatever you think! Katie Hand 9:30-10:45 Tuesday/Thursday Rhetoric/Comp. Lovin Essay 1 Due Feb. 9 My College Education Past, Present, Future In the Fall of 2008, I was going to school at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I had been there for about five weeks before I was told I had Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer and had to come home. In a weird way, it was a bit of a relief to be able to come back because my roommate was a royal bitch. The five weeks I was there, I was failing Calculus, loved Biology, hated my English class and was doing alright in my History class. I was having fun with activities and friends on the weekends, but the actual college learning part wasn't going exactly how I pictured it going since freshman year of high school. Fall '09 comes and I think I can get up and handle a few classes. I sign up for two and it all basically goes downhill from there on the business part of college, not this time on the learning part. This semester, Spring '10, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. When I get out of college, I am thinking about getting my degree in Psychology, different than I first had in mind, Marine Biology. Fall 2009 I decided to get myself up and start again with school. At this point, I have almost been literally brain dead chemo brain as the nurses at the hospital like to call it. I go to SWIC and sign up for classes all by myself and I end up being told that I have to take Geometry, which I hate and have already taken and I decided on taking Photography. I have always wanted to learn more about Photography and I was pretty excited about it. I go through Geometry better than I had in high school, I tried harder, I got help for myself and actually cared. I found out four weeks left of Geometry that I did not need to take it and got frustrated and stopped trying. I am not really sure why I did that, but I did, and ended up with a B, much better than high school. Along with troubles in Geometry, I wasn't having persay troubles in Photography, but I learned absolutly nothing from the teacher. I had to ask my friend how to devleop the film and photos and ask around how to make my pictures better. I am still going through trouble with the counselors and financial aid aspect with wrong classes and tuition credits. It has been a little frustrating attending here because of the mix up in classes, and that I was told I would have a tuition credit done before Christmas and it is February and it is still not even close to being able to go through. This semester, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. So far I am not needing to go search for any help. My Sociology class is alright, I am not interested in that class as I am others. The teacher likes to go off on other topics related to Sociology, but not the exact idea that we are talking about. It is a complete, culture shock, I guess you can say. I have always only had white kids and teachers at school, that basically think one boring way and basically agree on every little boring thing. I have had a black boyfriend before, and a job with different races, but attending school from all white to a whole bunch of different people and different teachers, and everyone have a whole bunch of different ideas, it is new, and I love it. I also love Psychology. The teacher is a little out there, reminds me of my Ceramics teacher in high school. Growing up I have wanted to be almost everything under the sun with having a Psychology major as one of them. I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology. I took Earth Science in 7th grade, so it has been a while, but me wanting to do Marine Biology, I also like this class. Not so much the lab part of it, but the class and material in general, I like. I have a feeling these four chapter exams are going to kill me if I do not get my act together. Right now we are learning about astronomy. When I was growing up, I wanted to major in it, but actually I am glad I am only taking it for a chapter or two. It is interesting how it is all made, and how we have the calendar and things like that, but I would rather take sitting on a blanket looking at the stars, moon and planets any day. Like I have said before, I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology and maybe minor in Criminal Justice. I have always thought I was going to have a Marine Biology degree and work with dolphins my whole life. Then I started taking classes I need for a Marine Biology degree. It is not easy and I am not exactly academically inclined. Calculus... not happening. Physics...not happening. I hate math and everything that has to do with it. I love animals, so where ever I move, I am wanting to volunteer at the local Rescue area. While I was going through Hodgkins treatment, my parents got me SCUBA diving lessons and in the past year I have become a licensed SUCBA diver. So I am thinking I will become a victim advocate and with my vacation time, swim with dolphins and learn about the ocean on my own time, without the awful math. A victim advocate, according to * http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/jobdeda/Jobs_Victim%20Services.htm*, Performs highly interactive and assistance duties directly working with victims, in the case management and service referral functions. Which basically I can do anything from attend court with the victim, be a voice for them, once a crime happens, I would be at the hospital or police station and they can just tell me what happened, yell at me for what happened, or I can just sit with them and let them have a shoulder to cry on. I can work with any age group, young kids to the elderly and husbands and wives in abusive relationships. I like to help people so I think this would be a good fit. I am pretty sure I have been accepted to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The whole SWIC not working right with my tran_script_s and SIUC taking their time on looking through my information is what is keeping me from being officially admitted. I want to get out of Illinois badly, but it is kind of too late to get in anywhere else, so I'm thinking a year there, become a junior and move out to my brother's house in Maryland to be closer to my 2 month old nephew and finish my Psychology degree at Maryland University and be close to the water. In Fall '08, I had a different approach to school than I do now. I had was thinking about a different degree, I was healthier, and I had my mind more focused on what it was that I wanted. The past year and a half I have learned which type of classes I can academically understand, and which I can not. I have learned how to take care of things on my own, like signing up for school and dealing with the counselors and all the other departments I had trouble with and what I would like to do when I finish my education. I hope SWIC can give me more experience and education on other things before I leave here in May.
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<http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhjb8qrq_2d4zs6cgd Here's my first essay. Be completely honest about whatever you think! Katie Hand 9:30-10:45 Tuesday/Thursday Rhetoric/Comp. Lovin Essay 1 Due Feb. 9 My College Education Past, Present, Future In the Fall of 2008, I was going to school at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I had been there for about five weeks before I was told I had Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer and had to come home. In a weird way, it was a bit of a relief to be able to come back because my roommate was a royal bitch. The five weeks I was there, I was failing Calculus, loved Biology, hated my English class and was doing alright in my History class. I was having fun with activities and friends on the weekends, but the actual college learning part wasn't going exactly how I pictured it going since freshman year of high school. Fall '09 comes and I think I can get up and handle a few classes. I sign up for two and it all basically goes downhill from there on the business part of college, not this time on the learning part. This semester, Spring '10, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. When I get out of college, I am thinking about getting my degree in Psychology, different than I first had in mind, Marine Biology. Fall 2009 I decided to get myself up and start again with school. At this point, I have almost been literally brain dead chemo brain as the nurses at the hospital like to call it. I go to SWIC and sign up for classes all by myself and I end up being told that I have to take Geometry, which I hate and have already taken and I decided on taking Photography. I have always wanted to learn more about Photography and I was pretty excited about it. I go through Geometry better than I had in high school, I tried harder, I got help for myself and actually cared. I found out four weeks left of Geometry that I did not need to take it and got frustrated and stopped trying. I am not really sure why I did that, but I did, and ended up with a B, much better than high school. Along with troubles in Geometry, I wasn't having persay troubles in Photography, but I learned absolutly nothing from the teacher. I had to ask my friend how to devleop the film and photos and ask around how to make my pictures better. I am still going through trouble with the counselors and financial aid aspect with wrong classes and tuition credits. It has been a little frustrating attending here because of the mix up in classes, and that I was told I would have a tuition credit done before Christmas and it is February and it is still not even close to being able to go through. This semester, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. So far I am not needing to go search for any help. My Sociology class is alright, I am not interested in that class as I am others. The teacher likes to go off on other topics related to Sociology, but not the exact idea that we are talking about. It is a complete, culture shock, I guess you can say. I have always only had white kids and teachers at school, that basically think one boring way and basically agree on every little boring thing. I have had a black boyfriend before, and a job with different races, but attending school from all white to a whole bunch of different people and different teachers, and everyone have a whole bunch of different ideas, it is new, and I love it. I also love Psychology. The teacher is a little out there, reminds me of my Ceramics teacher in high school. Growing up I have wanted to be almost everything under the sun with having a Psychology major as one of them. I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology. I took Earth Science in 7th grade, so it has been a while, but me wanting to do Marine Biology, I also like this class. Not so much the lab part of it, but the class and material in general, I like. I have a feeling these four chapter exams are going to kill me if I do not get my act together. Right now we are learning about astronomy. When I was growing up, I wanted to major in it, but actually I am glad I am only taking it for a chapter or two. It is interesting how it is all made, and how we have the calendar and things like that, but I would rather take sitting on a blanket looking at the stars, moon and planets any day. Like I have said before, I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology and maybe minor in Criminal Justice. I have always thought I was going to have a Marine Biology degree and work with dolphins my whole life. Then I started taking classes I need for a Marine Biology degree. It is not easy and I am not exactly academically inclined. Calculus... not happening. Physics...not happening. I hate math and everything that has to do with it. I love animals, so where ever I move, I am wanting to volunteer at the local Rescue area. While I was going through Hodgkins treatment, my parents got me SCUBA diving lessons and in the past year I have become a licensed SUCBA diver. So I am thinking I will become a victim advocate and with my vacation time, swim with dolphins and learn about the ocean on my own time, without the awful math. A victim advocate, according to * http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/jobdeda/Jobs_Victim%20Services.htm*, Performs highly interactive and assistance duties directly working with victims, in the case management and service referral functions. Which basically I can do anything from attend court with the victim, be a voice for them, once a crime happens, I would be at the hospital or police station and they can just tell me what happened, yell at me for what happened, or I can just sit with them and let them have a shoulder to cry on. I can work with any age group, young kids to the elderly and husbands and wives in abusive relationships. I like to help people so I think this would be a good fit. I am pretty sure I have been accepted to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The whole SWIC not working right with my tran_script_s and SIUC taking their time on looking through my information is what is keeping me from being officially admitted. I want to get out of Illinois badly, but it is kind of too late to get in anywhere else, so I'm thinking a year there, become a junior and move out to my brother's house in Maryland to be closer to my 2 month old nephew and finish my Psychology degree at Maryland University and be close to the water. In Fall '08, I had a different approach to school than I do now. I had was thinking about a different degree, I was healthier, and I had my mind more focused on what it was that I wanted. The past year and a half I have learned which type of classes I can academically understand, and which I can not. I have learned how to take care of things on my own, like signing up for school and dealing with the counselors and all the other departments I had trouble with and what I would like to do when I finish my education. I hope SWIC can give me more experience and education on other things before I leave here in May.
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Here's my first essay. Be completely honest about whatever you think! Katie Hand 9:30-10:45 Tuesday/Thursday Rhetoric/Comp. Lovin Essay 1 Due Feb. 9 My College Education Past, Present, Future In the Fall of 2008, I was going to school at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I had been there for about five weeks before I was told I had Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer and had to come home. In a weird way, it was a bit of a relief to be able to come back because my roommate was a royal bitch. The five weeks I was there, I was failing Calculus, loved Biology, hated my English class and was doing alright in my History class. I was having fun with activities and friends on the weekends, but the actual college learning part wasn't going exactly how I pictured it going since freshman year of high school. Fall '09 comes and I think I can get up and handle a few classes. I sign up for two and it all basically goes downhill from there on the business part of college, not this time on the learning part. This semester, Spring '10, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. When I get out of college, I am thinking about getting my degree in Psychology, different than I first had in mind, Marine Biology. Fall 2009 I decided to get myself up and start again with school. At this point, I have almost been literally brain dead chemo brain as the nurses at the hospital like to call it. I go to SWIC and sign up for classes all by myself and I end up being told that I have to take Geometry, which I hate and have already taken and I decided on taking Photography. I have always wanted to learn more about Photography and I was pretty excited about it. I go through Geometry better than I had in high school, I tried harder, I got help for myself and actually cared. I found out four weeks left of Geometry that I did not need to take it and got frustrated and stopped trying. I am not really sure why I did that, but I did, and ended up with a B, much better than high school. Along with troubles in Geometry, I wasn't having persay troubles in Photography, but I learned absolutly nothing from the teacher. I had to ask my friend how to devleop the film and photos and ask around how to make my pictures better. I am still going through trouble with the counselors and financial aid aspect with wrong classes and tuition credits. It has been a little frustrating attending here because of the mix up in classes, and that I was told I would have a tuition credit done before Christmas and it is February and it is still not even close to being able to go through. This semester, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. So far I am not needing to go search for any help. My Sociology class is alright, I am not interested in that class as I am others. The teacher likes to go off on other topics related to Sociology, but not the exact idea that we are talking about. It is a complete, culture shock, I guess you can say. I have always only had white kids and teachers at school, that basically think one boring way and basically agree on every little boring thing. I have had a black boyfriend before, and a job with different races, but attending school from all white to a whole bunch of different people and different teachers, and everyone have a whole bunch of different ideas, it is new, and I love it. I also love Psychology. The teacher is a little out there, reminds me of my Ceramics teacher in high school. Growing up I have wanted to be almost everything under the sun with having a Psychology major as one of them. I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology. I took Earth Science in 7th grade, so it has been a while, but me wanting to do Marine Biology, I also like this class. Not so much the lab part of it, but the class and material in general, I like. I have a feeling these four chapter exams are going to kill me if I do not get my act together. Right now we are learning about astronomy. When I was growing up, I wanted to major in it, but actually I am glad I am only taking it for a chapter or two. It is interesting how it is all made, and how we have the calendar and things like that, but I would rather take sitting on a blanket looking at the stars, moon and planets any day. Like I have said before, I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology and maybe minor in Criminal Justice. I have always thought I was going to have a Marine Biology degree and work with dolphins my whole life. Then I started taking classes I need for a Marine Biology degree. It is not easy and I am not exactly academically inclined. Calculus... not happening. Physics...not happening. I hate math and everything that has to do with it. I love animals, so where ever I move, I am wanting to volunteer at the local Rescue area. While I was going through Hodgkins treatment, my parents got me SCUBA diving lessons and in the past year I have become a licensed SUCBA diver. So I am thinking I will become a victim advocate and with my vacation time, swim with dolphins and learn about the ocean on my own time, without the awful math. A victim advocate, according to * http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/jobdeda/Jobs_Victim%20Services.htm*, Performs highly interactive and assistance duties directly working with victims, in the case management and service referral functions. Which basically I can do anything from attend court with the victim, be a voice for them, once a crime happens, I would be at the hospital or police station and they can just tell me what happened, yell at me for what happened, or I can just sit with them and let them have a shoulder to cry on. I can work with any age group, young kids to the elderly and husbands and wives in abusive relationships. I like to help people so I think this would be a good fit. I am pretty sure I have been accepted to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The whole SWIC not working right with my tran_script_s and SIUC taking their time on looking through my information is what is keeping me from being officially admitted. I want to get out of Illinois badly, but it is kind of too late to get in anywhere else, so I'm thinking a year there, become a junior and move out to my brother's house in Maryland to be closer to my 2 month old nephew and finish my Psychology degree at Maryland University and be close to the water. In Fall '08, I had a different approach to school than I do now. I had was thinking about a different degree, I was healthier, and I had my mind more focused on what it was that I wanted. The past year and a half I have learned which type of classes I can academically understand, and which I can not. I have learned how to take care of things on my own, like signing up for school and dealing with the counselors and all the other departments I had trouble with and what I would like to do when I finish my education. I hope SWIC can give me more experience and education on other things before I leave here in May.
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Here's my first essay. Be completely honest about whatever you think! Katie Hand 9:30-10:45 Tuesday/Thursday Rhetoric/Comp. Lovin Essay 1 Due Feb. 9 My College Education Past, Present, Future In the Fall of 2008, I was going to school at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin. I had been there for about five weeks before I was told I had Hodgkins Lymphoma cancer and had to come home. In a weird way, it was a bit of a relief to be able to come back because my roommate was a royal bitch. The five weeks I was there, I was failing Calculus, loved Biology, hated my English class and was doing alright in my History class. I was having fun with activities and friends on the weekends, but the actual college learning part wasn't going exactly how I pictured it going since freshman year of high school. Fall '09 comes and I think I can get up and handle a few classes. I sign up for two and it all basically goes downhill from there on the business part of college, not this time on the learning part. This semester, Spring '10, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. When I get out of college, I am thinking about getting my degree in Psychology, different than I first had in mind, Marine Biology. Fall 2009 I decided to get myself up and start again with school. At this point, I have almost been literally brain dead chemo brain as the nurses at the hospital like to call it. I go to SWIC and sign up for classes all by myself and I end up being told that I have to take Geometry, which I hate and have already taken and I decided on taking Photography. I have always wanted to learn more about Photography and I was pretty excited about it. I go through Geometry better than I had in high school, I tried harder, I got help for myself and actually cared. I found out four weeks left of Geometry that I did not need to take it and got frustrated and stopped trying. I am not really sure why I did that, but I did, and ended up with a B, much better than high school. Along with troubles in Geometry, I wasn't having persay troubles in Photography, but I learned absolutly nothing from the teacher. I had to ask my friend how to devleop the film and photos and ask around how to make my pictures better. I am still going through trouble with the counselors and financial aid aspect with wrong classes and tuition credits. It has been a little frustrating attending here because of the mix up in classes, and that I was told I would have a tuition credit done before Christmas and it is February and it is still not even close to being able to go through. This semester, I am taking Monday/Wednesday/Friday, Sociology, Psychology, Earth Science and Tuesday/Thursday, Rhetoric/Composition 1. So far I am not needing to go search for any help. My Sociology class is alright, I am not interested in that class as I am others. The teacher likes to go off on other topics related to Sociology, but not the exact idea that we are talking about. It is a complete, culture shock, I guess you can say. I have always only had white kids and teachers at school, that basically think one boring way and basically agree on every little boring thing. I have had a black boyfriend before, and a job with different races, but attending school from all white to a whole bunch of different people and different teachers, and everyone have a whole bunch of different ideas, it is new, and I love it. I also love Psychology. The teacher is a little out there, reminds me of my Ceramics teacher in high school. Growing up I have wanted to be almost everything under the sun with having a Psychology major as one of them. I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology. I took Earth Science in 7th grade, so it has been a while, but me wanting to do Marine Biology, I also like this class. Not so much the lab part of it, but the class and material in general, I like. I have a feeling these four chapter exams are going to kill me if I do not get my act together. Right now we are learning about astronomy. When I was growing up, I wanted to major in it, but actually I am glad I am only taking it for a chapter or two. It is interesting how it is all made, and how we have the calendar and things like that, but I would rather take sitting on a blanket looking at the stars, moon and planets any day. Like I have said before, I am pretty sure I am going to major in Psychology and maybe minor in Criminal Justice. I have always thought I was going to have a Marine Biology degree and work with dolphins my whole life. Then I started taking classes I need for a Marine Biology degree. It is not easy and I am not exactly academically inclined. Calculus... not happening. Physics...not happening. I hate math and everything that has to do with it. I love animals, so where ever I move, I am wanting to volunteer at the local Rescue area. While I was going through Hodgkins treatment, my parents got me SCUBA diving lessons and in the past year I have become a licensed SUCBA diver. So I am thinking I will become a victim advocate and with my vacation time, swim with dolphins and learn about the ocean on my own time, without the awful math. A victim advocate, according to * http://www.ncsconline.org/D_KIS/jobdeda/Jobs_Victim%20Services.htm*, Performs highly interactive and assistance duties directly working with victims, in the case management and service referral functions. Which basically I can do anything from attend court with the victim, be a voice for them, once a crime happens, I would be at the hospital or police station and they can just tell me what happened, yell at me for what happened, or I can just sit with them and let them have a shoulder to cry on. I can work with any age group, young kids to the elderly and husbands and wives in abusive relationships. I like to help people so I think this would be a good fit. I am pretty sure I have been accepted to Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The whole SWIC not working right with my tran_script_s and SIUC taking their time on looking through my information is what is keeping me from being officially admitted. I want to get out of Illinois badly, but it is kind of too late to get in anywhere else, so I'm thinking a year there, become a junior and move out to my brother's house in Maryland to be closer to my 2 month old nephew and finish my Psychology degree at Maryland University and be close to the water. In Fall '08, I had a different approach to school than I do now. I had was thinking about a different degree, I was healthier, and I had my mind more focused on what it was that I wanted. The past year and a half I have learned which type of classes I can academically understand, and which I can not. I have learned how to take care of things on my own, like signing up for school and dealing with the counselors and all the other departments I had trouble with and what I would like to do when I finish my education. I hope SWIC can give me more experience and education on other things before I leave here in May.
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