Wednesday, June 22, 2011

What do you think librarians do? What would be something cool for librarians to start doing? What do you think the library of the future looks like?

I think that librarians keep the library in order, keep track of books, read a lot, and help people in the library. I think that they mostly help people their find books, recomend books, and also find information on the internet or through movies and music. I can't really think of anythign cool or new librarians could start doing because I think what they do now is perfect. I  think the library of the future would be more technological. I think it will be less books and more computer research and more things like Nooks will be around in the future too.
I don't want that though... I like books :)

Friday, June 17, 2011

Question #1: What do you hope to study when you go to college and why? How is the Pre-Collegiate program helping you meet your goals?

<-------This is me :)
I'm not 100% sure what I want to study in college yet. Working at a vet clinic over the past year through my school got me really interested in veterinary medicine. I have also always wanted to be a teacher because I love sharing information with people and helping other people learn new things. I just don't know what I would teach. I think I would be a pretty cool teacher. I also have been thinking about nursing, I would really love that because of the variety of nursing positions there are. I would just be nervous because I'm not too quick with math and at the vet clinic they always say "decimals kill" because literally I could kill an animal drawing up the wrong amount of a vaccine, and I don't want to do that. I know I will get better with studying and practice but it makes me nervous. If I were to go into nursing I would want to try the different positions but the two that interest me the most would be geriatrics or neonatal.
College in general makes me nervous because it's the only thing I actually make for myself. I choose what i do with my life through my education and knowing I have that much power over this makes me so nervous.
Pre-Collegiate has and is helping me meet my goals by exposing me too all the different areas of the medical field. I get a bit of a head start with my english composition class and I'm learning a lot about college and seeing a lot of medical-related thigns that a lot of other 17 year olds just don't do. It also keeps me on point in school because I have to get good grades to stay in the program and the summer classes keep me sharp all year long. Another thing it's helped me with is meeting a lot of people. I've made a lot of friends here and the T.A's are helpful and I feel like it gives me more people I could reach out to once I've started my college  experience.
:)