Brittany's Blurb

I am sad to say that I am a procrastinator. Some of you may also be procrastinators. It’s a dilemma for me because on one hand I love the free time procrastination brings; however, I’m really starting to wonder if it is worth the stress the night before the test. My most recent procrastination episode was…well, last minute and stressful. It was studying for my first pharmacology test. Granted we are allowed to drop our worst test score, so there’s not an overwhelming amount of pressure on this first test, but who knows how much harder this class may get! If I blow this test and the class gets really, really hard, well, I’m toast! But yeah…30 pages of slides with 6 slides per page. I waited until about 10:00 the night before to start studying. We get our scores on Wednesday. I have no idea how I did.

BUT! On a brighter note, I had an awesome day in the athletic training room! (The test was on Friday so there’s no point in worrying about it anymore. No worrying will change my score.) I just started my rotation with my official senior sport: wrestling. I am SO excited! In the past the athletic training rotations have been 5 weeks long and you have 3 per semester. This year I had a first rotation (wrestling wasn’t in season yet) but starting this week I will be with them for the rest of the school year. I’m really starting to feel a sense of ownership and am looking forward to being part of the team. I do not have any brothers (well, I have a brother-in-law but we didn’t grow up together so its different) and boys are just so different from girls! Add to that the fact that wrestlers are unique. Its not something that I can put my finger on, but talk to any wrestler and they’ll agree with you (or the ones I’ve talked to agree with me!). But anyways, the moral of the story is that working with them today was great. It really helped boost my confidence in myself as well as make me excited for the season!

Yep. That’s where I am! I hope you guys are doing great! Have a great day!!

Posted in: on Monday, September 29, 2008 at at 7:10 PM 0 comments  

What I am referring to is my final senior year of college. I felt the need to specify FINAL because it’s my second senior year. It seems like it was just yesterday that my senior year of high school started and ended. Yet, at the same I have experienced so many things, met numerous people, gone places, changed and grown that high school seems like a lifetime ago. The way time passes is crazy! It flies, yet there has been so much that has happened its hard to believe that it all fit in 4 years.

I’ve been thinking a lot about my senior year of high school and how hard and stressful it was to pick a college. There were definitely things I wish I would have done differently like: (1) I would have started looking and applying to schools before January and February. Procrastinating did not help with the stress! (2) I would have applied for more scholarships. Free money is great. I could use more of it! (3) I can actually only really think of those two things right now…. BUT looking back on what I wished I would have done is changing the way I look at graduate school now. The biggest difference between the two is that when you go to college for an undergraduate degree it is ok to not know exactly what you want to do. I did, but a lot of people don’t. That’s fine. BUT when you go get a graduate degree, you have to know exactly what you want! I knew what I wanted in my undergrad, but I can’t decide what to do for my graduate degree! The good news is that there is time.

My athletic training class (there are 7 of us) had one of our grad students come talk during our GRE study time this week. It was good to hear about how she looked for schools and set up her criteria. For all you students looking at undergrad or grad schools, I think she had a really good plan. Make a list of what is important to you. It will be different for everyone! But find what matters the most to you and go from there. That’s my plan! I’ll let you know how it goes!
Have a great day!

Posted in: on Friday, September 12, 2008 at at 7:15 PM 0 comments