Journals
These journals reflect my weekly experiences as an athletic training student. Each journal reflects either an actual patient contact experience, or something I am working on in my athletic training courses.
Since my freshmen year, I feel like I am a completely different person. I believe the student I am now compared to the student I was four years ago is not the same person at all. I feel like I have grown and molded to become the student I should have always been. My freshman year, I was not sure what I was about to get into. All I knew is I wanted to make friends and be a part of extracurricular activities. However, as a senior, I have a completely different perspectives by focusing my time on school work and making last minute memories with my closest friends and of course my athletic training family. I did not think I would survive through the athletic training program. Especially if I would have been the same student I was as a freshmen there would have been no way I would have made it through. Looking back now, I knew I was dedicated and could work hard throughout it, but there were a lot of times I had doubt within myself that I was smart enough to be a part of this program. I believe my junior year was the year that helped me become the student I am. I was in four very hard classes while playing sport, and I never thought I would have made it out of that semester passing. However, here I am. I have actually made it to graduation. My whole college career has been a lesson to me, and I am so thankful I have had this experience. I am very excited for my future now. I have worked really hard these past four years, and now its finally my time to put this into real world scenarios. The next steps for me is to finish my pre requisites to get into graduate school. I want to get my masters in physicians assistant and be both MPA and ATC. With this year off, I am going to be applying to graduate schools and helping out with the volleyball program at Emory & Henry. I also want to continue better my skills in athletic training. Over the summer, I hope to be able to help Mike with some tournaments and continue to be a part of different clinical experiences opportunities.
My four years at Emory & Henry College has really changed the person I was in high school. This experience is something I will never forget. I have made so many memories with both my classmates and preceptors. This was truly an honor to be a part of the athletic training program. Through all early mornings to studying in the depot until 3 am for exits, I will always be thankful for what I have learned and become throughout this journey. Thank you, Beth for allowing me this opportunity.
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Beth
4/29/2019 12:23:26 pm
No need to thank me. Many people made this possible, including you. I just made you reflect on it. :-)
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