Academic Plan.

My plan for college is to transfer into the BEST program. BEST is a program that will allow me to take all of my classes here at Butler that I need to graduate from Emporia State with a Bachelors of Science degree in elementary education. BEST stands for Butler and Emporia from Students to Teachers. I could go to Emporia if I really wanted. It all depends on how I feel after my two years at Butler. I chose elementary education as a major because I've always loved working with kids and I've had several teachers tell me that it would be a good career for me. When I was younger being a teacher was my dream so I decided to take my teachers' advice and give teaching a try. I know that teachers don’t make an excellent amount of money but that really doesn’t bother me. I love working with kids and I can't think of a better way to do that than to be an elementary school teacher.



http://lifelong.emporia.edu/eled/bcc/index.htm
http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/majors/majorBasics.asp?majorID=92
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos069.htm
http://site.educ.indiana.edu/Default.aspx?alias=site.educ.indiana.edu/elemed
http://www.emporia.edu/lifelong/eled/bcc/index.htm

Community Service.

One thing in America that bothers me the most is medically uninsured Americans. According to statistics, in the United States their are currently about 47 milllion people without medical insurance and about 50 million people who are currently underinsured. That is a whole lot of people paying medical bills out of pocket or completely avoiding hospitals as much as possible. The one main thing that people are doing to help this is a bill called H.R. 676, which is a bill proposing national medical health. If this bill were to pass through then we could completely eliminate health insurance companies and all medical facilities would be funded by the government so we wouldn't have to pay for anything. The documentary SiCKO directed by Michael Moore really brought this issue to my attention. He filmed stories of people all across America that were either denied help from the insurance companies or didn't have insurance at all. He also filmed his interviews with people in Canada, Cuba and France, all of which have a national health system. One of the stories that really stuck in my mind was a story of a man that had kidney disease and his doctor told him that his chances of living would extremely increase if he got some kind of bone marrow treatment. His insurance wouldn't fund the treatment because they claimed that it was experimental. The man died not too long after that. The ways that I could help with this cause is to donate money, write a letter to a congressman, and to talk about the issue with anyone who will listen and help them to find ways that they can help too. In my opinion, everyone should watch the documentary SiCKO, it will really open your eyes.



Links:
http://protesthealthcare.org/index.htm
http://www.hr676.org/
http://www.michaelmoore.com/sicko/checkup/

Time Management.

I'm really terrible at managing my time. Most of my time should be going towards studying but really it winds up being time spent with friends. I just can't resist a good time! There's never really been a time in my life that I managed my time wisely. But I know that what I really need to do is decide what is most important to me at this time in my life and work at saving more time to be able to do that. Its just hard deciding if getting good grades in school is more important than spending time with your friends and having fun. If I would budget my time more wisely than I would most likely have a better grade in my anatomy and physiology class and I would probably still care if I failed a test. But now that the semester is almost over and I have squandered all my time away I have failed too many tests to care anymore. I'm still passing with a C though! I have been studying more than usual lately so that I can at least keep that grade but it has been hard. I have noticed improvements in other classes as well. In high school I didn't ever care if I was late for class and in most of them I hardly paid attention, I have no clue how I passed high school with a 4.0 but thank god. Now that I'm in college I've discovered that paying attention makes things easier.