SO! How was it?

This experience like many of my others taught me that college life can be very rigorous. The Dorm life and the overall aspect of the program was great! I was very happy to be able to meet new people and form bonds with people that I didn’t know six weeks ago. I felt as if I had all the resources and help that I needed to complete mostly all of my task.
As far as my regular class went, it was defiantly not my favorite. I took American History to 1865, I had professor Griggs. The class itself wasn’t that bad, the material was easy to study, but not easy to remember. I felt for a while that my Professor just told us what he knew, he was never teaching. I also thought that he only knew what he told us and anything extra he was not sure about. He never really elaborated on much, he would talk about things a little and kind of expect you to know or figure out the rest. Once I got the class notes I felt even more like everything the professor was saying was directly out of a book. He made small jokes, but still was not very enthused about the information. The exams were not hard, they were all formatted the same. Overall the class wasn’t that bad the Professor was a great professor but I think that his class should only be taken by upper classmen or Historians.

The "Career shadow"

I have had the opportunity to job shadow before, but since that experience I had a change of career paths so when I get the opportunity to job shadow I would lobe to take it! The job shadow we did on Monday at UNMC was very misleading! This was not at all a career shadow. We went to UNMC and on the way in I thought about the fact that we didn’t sign any HIPPA forms or any forms at all and I wondered what we could possibly be doing. We enter UNMC still with the idea that we may get to career shadow and we are greeted by Sherman. We then waited for the rest of the group and proceeded into a conference room. I figure this is where we will sign legal documents and get on with the shadow. Sherman sits us all down and starts to talk about their programs, some of which we learned about just that morning in panel. I did appreciate learning more about the medical programs; however I was very disappointed because this is not what we were supposed to be doing. We talked for a couple hours and were dismissed before 4 P.M. I felt over dressed and generally cheated out of and experience.