Graduation/Summer!
Posted by Danh Phan (or dphan) Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:56 AMI've finally graduated from college and it feels great but... I have no job offers or anything lined up at the moment. I guess this is where the real journey begins for me.
Lets recap my 7 yrs of college life:
- Freshman year, decided I wanted to be an optometrist so I became a pre-optometry major, but I was too much into a girl to concentrate on anything which included friends, family, and school which was a pretty bad start for me. I made B's and C's that year and broke up with the girl.
- 2nd year, probably my worst college year ever. I failed 2 classes and made mostly C's. I became depressed and emo for awhile. At the end of 2nd year, I found out I had Graves' disease.
-3rd year, ended up being kicked out of the school for a low GPA and then put on probation. So after the first semester ended, I transferred over to TSU to pursue a different career path. I chose clinical laboratory science. My old man had also passed away that same year from pancreatic cancer.
- 4th year, I did a lot better in my school work and earned A's and B's. My cumulative GPA was now a 2.5 or so. A lot of my friends were getting into pharmacy school and it looked pretty easy getting into so I tried it out too.
- 5th year, I finished all my prereqs for pharmacy and my CLS major and also did some volunteer work at the VA hospital. I applied for pharm school and got an interview, but was rejected. My plan was to attend with my brother and friends, but since I couldn't get in, I went through a different path.
- 6th year, I started the program I eventually graduated with, Clinical Laboratory Sciences. I thought science would keep me interested in learning forever but it slowly ate me away. For this reason, I knew I couldn't have made it in pharmacy school.
- 7th year, last and final year of the program in which I was put on clinical rotations. I got to experience the real life of a medical technologist and it is a repetitive one. Maybe it was because it was only a reference laboratory that everything seemed repetitive but I don't think I could do the same thing over and over again. It was kind of a disappointment for me. Hopefully there are more openings to this field with different options.
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I really like the picture that you took. It looks cool!
Anyways, congrats on graduating! I'm very proud of you. You stuck through.. especially during rough times and I commend you on that. Reading your experience kind of reminds me of.. me.
Since you are going to disable comments (well, I'm not sure if you were kidding) I will just aim you the rest. Tee hee :)
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