Summer Scholars Comming to an End

The Summer Scholars Program is comming to an end and I am not ready to leave. I have learned so much and will always take what I learned in this program with me for the rest of my life.

There is a huge difference between high school and college. In high school people go dressed to impress. Everyone is conscious of everyone and wants to look their best. In high school, you get chance after chance and won't get penalized as much. In high school there is so much drama, he said she said stuff and it lasts all year. Sports events are the things to go to and if you don't go then your not considered cool. But, college is much different. People don't care about who you are or where you come from. You are just there to get a good education. College life is much more exciting. There are parties all the time, games, clubs, anything you can imagine. And if you don't make it....who cares!!! But in college, its much more strict. Classes aren't ment for sideline discussion. You either listen to the lecture or leave no questions asked. The work load is much harder but in the end I think you feel more accomplished.

My college class was Sociology. I loved this class. Its a class that teaches how society works and how we are all related to it. Most of it is common sense stuff but if you don't really sit there and think about it, you won't get it. I enjoyed my class very much because it was always interesting. Some topics we contriversal like racial inequality and it was kind of neat to see how people of other races viewed that issue. The most challenging aspect of the course was having to read everynight. It wasn't something I was prepared for since in high school I never had to read every night like that. It was an intresting read but sometimes I was tempted not to.

I would most definently reccomend this program to anyone. I learned so much. I never knew that something like this could be so helpful. One thing that impacted me quite a bit was realizing that being called a minority means I'm half a step less than someone else. I am not any less then anyone so now I have learned to call myself a mulitcultural student.

Job Shadow

For my job shadow I went to the University of Nebraska Medical Center in the Student Life Life Confrence Center. I, along with everyone else, actually thought I was going to job shadow a doctor or nurse or something and experience first hand a day in the life of a doctor. But we acually just sat down with a guy named Sherman and he talked to us about the University and the different types of Graduate programs avaliable. He really stressed that you have to make yourself an option and to do that you have to go out and beyond and do things that sets yourself apart from other people. I really appreciated that advice. We also talked about the cost of school and how much of debt you will be in after you graduate. But, that will all be well worth it once you start getting the checks in. Even though it was a bit dissapointing to know that I wouldn't be following a doctor around it was actually worthwhile and very important for me to do that. Now I have a better understanding of graduate school and what I'm going to do to get there.