gBlog - How we see it …

It’s not a great feeling to realize that the major you have chosen is not the one that captivates your mind, motivates you to succeed, encourages you to live each day to its fullest. Recently, I had that experience.

I’ve wanted to become a nurse ever since I was in high school, I grew up in the medical community, and I used to marvel at the men and women who spent day in and day out saving peoples lives. When Gallaudet offered me a scholarship, I realized that they did not offer nursing as a major, but I decided that I would take Biology here, and then go to graduate school to get my nursing degree.

However, I’ve realized that I’m not enjoying myself. I’ll be honest, I fail to see about knowing the reproductive habits of the zebra mollusk is going to allow me to be a better nurse. I realize that there are prerequisite classes that must be taken, but to be honest, I feel like I will burn out long before I ever get to anything relevant to nursing.

Therefore, I have decided to switch my major to government, and I do not regret the decision one bit. I’ve always held an interest in politics, and more then a few of my high school teachers, including my history and government teachers encouraged me to study government, as I have a clear interest in it. However, I chose not to, because nursing is my first love.

A large factor in my decision to change is the government class I am taking now, which has been an amazing experience. I am blessed to have an incredible teacher (Mairin Veith), and even though there are only four people in the class, we have deep lively discussions on a daily basis. As a result, my plans have changed a little bit. I now plan to pursue a government day, possibly get a job in the government, and then when I have saved up enough money for graduate school, for a bachelors in nursing. I think that it’s important that freshman realize that its OK to change your major. You come into college with a lot of expectations and hopes, and sad to say, more then a few of them are going to be crushed, or not what you were thinking of, and it’s possible that you may find something you enjoy more.

Homecoming is coming up in a few days, however I won’t be attending, Saturday I will be working, and I refuse to pay $50 for a dance, that quite frankly, sucks. I attended last years, and after 15 minutes of breathing smoke, feeling the beat of horrible music, and having several extremely drunk people bump into me, I left. I’ve heard that this years homecoming is supposed to be worlds better, but frankly.. I’ll believe it when I see it. I’d much prefer to hang out with friends and have a cookout, which is exactly what I’ll be doing.

Time for a little “photo memory”

In January I was taking Honors biology, and one of the things we had to do for the class was go to the Walter Reed Medical Museum. A large group of classmates and I decided to go one saturday afternoon, and wouldn’t you know it, it happened to snow about a foot that day. We had to take a city bus to get there, and the bus happened to drop us on the south side of the base.. we thought there would be a gate open on every street… silly us, the only entrance was on the east side, so what did we do? we started walking west.. After an hour of trudging through a foot of snow, we got to the east entrance (we basically walked around the entire base) only to find out that the museum was closed because of the weather… So, as the saying goes, all we got for our troubles was this stupid picture:

Got to love College field trips.