Week one is done. It is actually better than I thought it would be. I do feel weird and slightly out of place, but I do enjoy it. I like the feeling of learning again, and the experience of college. I'm glad I chose the traditional route instead of taking online classes. I had hoped that it would be different than high school. I hated high school and didn't really learn very much. I was right that it is different, thank goodness.
Not learning much in high school made me have a small setback this week. My first real biology class on my way to becoming a PA, Population Biology. The professor asked a few questions to the class and answers were given. Some right, some wrong. Then she said that this is basic stuff that we all learned in high school. What? I never learned this in high school. What is a Eukaryotic Cell? I have no idea. How about a Prokaryotic Cell? I don't know what high school she went to, but it wasn't mine.
Thus began a weekend of learning "high school" biology. I read the first chapter of text, which is basically a broad review of biology, and I took notes. My wife said I was crazy for doing unneeded work, but I think in the long run it will benefit me. Two pages of notes doesn't seem like a lot of work to understand the basis of what I want to do with my life.
This week was an enlightening experience. I walked from class to class, even though I could have drove, just to see what everyone sees. I sat on the steps outside of the science building and studied with other students. I enjoyed every minute on campus. Here's to hoping I enjoy every future minute.
Daniel
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Monday, August 25, 2014
So It Begins.
"The beginning is the most important part of the work." Plato
The day after tomorrow, will be the first day of my future. I am thirty-one years old, and until a few months ago, I still had no idea where my life was headed. I had spent enough time working dead-end jobs for enough money to live paycheck to paycheck. It was time for a change.
Sometimes something will come along and help you. My help came in the form of job loss. I had worked at my job for the previous seven years. It was a good job, by local standards. With higher pay than the city average and a full benefits package. I hated it. I felt like I could do so much more. That all of upper management treated me like a child, and not with the respect I felt like I deserved. I'm not saying I deserved more than anyone else, because I didn't. They treated everyone equally bad.
I lost my job, and was forced to search for something else in a town that was already overflowing with unemployment. I did my best, to no avail. For years I had been toying with the idea of college and finding a career instead of a job. Then it hit me, now is the time. Not tomorrow. Not next year. I didn't need to wait anymore for something to happen and make my life better. I had to make it better on my on.
The journey to make it better, will start the day after tomorrow. I begin my studies at The University of the Cumberlands. I am majoring in Biology with Pre-Physician Assistant emphasis. I will try my hardest, I will do my best, and hopefully I will be accepted to the Physician Assistant program in three years.
Along the way I will write here. If I'm not overwhelmed by school work, that is. I hope that someone will read this and take something away from it. If anyone has a question, I will do my best to help. Thank you for reading.
Daniel
The day after tomorrow, will be the first day of my future. I am thirty-one years old, and until a few months ago, I still had no idea where my life was headed. I had spent enough time working dead-end jobs for enough money to live paycheck to paycheck. It was time for a change.
Sometimes something will come along and help you. My help came in the form of job loss. I had worked at my job for the previous seven years. It was a good job, by local standards. With higher pay than the city average and a full benefits package. I hated it. I felt like I could do so much more. That all of upper management treated me like a child, and not with the respect I felt like I deserved. I'm not saying I deserved more than anyone else, because I didn't. They treated everyone equally bad.
I lost my job, and was forced to search for something else in a town that was already overflowing with unemployment. I did my best, to no avail. For years I had been toying with the idea of college and finding a career instead of a job. Then it hit me, now is the time. Not tomorrow. Not next year. I didn't need to wait anymore for something to happen and make my life better. I had to make it better on my on.
The journey to make it better, will start the day after tomorrow. I begin my studies at The University of the Cumberlands. I am majoring in Biology with Pre-Physician Assistant emphasis. I will try my hardest, I will do my best, and hopefully I will be accepted to the Physician Assistant program in three years.
Along the way I will write here. If I'm not overwhelmed by school work, that is. I hope that someone will read this and take something away from it. If anyone has a question, I will do my best to help. Thank you for reading.
Daniel
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