So I finished my first year at Stanford about a month ago. It was a fantastic finish to a wonderful school year. I will admit that it didn't start out amazing. I took Geology classes and hated it, but now after doing some more searching for classes and majors, I finally landed on one that I'm confident will stick and will also give me better options for my future. This new major is called Human Biology. It is a pretty unique major and I had never heard of it until I went out to Stanford. It is a BA as opposed to a BS, and it looks at humans both from a biological and social science perspective. It is also a very flexible major where you can choose a lot of your own classes within the major and choose what your concentration within the major is. There are just a few core classes that you take, which I started last quarter. One was The Human Organism which was basically an intro to physiology and anatomy. The other core class was Health and Environmental Policy Analysis. I absolutely loved all the classes I tool this past quarter and am excited to start the other classes that I need to take next year. I'm still planning on concentrating in Health Policy but after looking in to the Public Policy and Human Biology major I thought that Human Biology would be a better fit for what I want to do. Since it is interdisciplinary, it will be better for me when going to PA school.
This past quarter, I also took a required writing class where the topic was 'Women in Sports' which was awesome. But as part of the requirement I had to write a research paper and then present it in front of the class. I did my research on Title IX and how is represents disabled athletes...or doesn't in this case. My teacher was really motivated by my research and I made a lot of cool contacts and connections; long story short, I'm going to try and start some type of adaptive program next year. Stanford has student initiated courses where students can design and teach classes to other Stanford students and they can get university credit for it. I'm thinking of creating one of those classes, like an 'Intro to Adaptive Sports' class where other students can come play adaptive sports with me. It may be my own selfishness of not wanting to leave campus for hours at a time to play sports with other people in Berkeley or San Jose because balancing school work and recreation time is very hard at Stanford. So hopefully my plan will work out next year.
This Summer I haven't been doing too much. I had a nice TV series marathon of "Bones" and now I kind of want to be a forensic anthropologist. Not really, but maybe it can be my secret identity/profession at night. I'm also planning on going to Finland this summer with some friends. One of my good friends that I met at the Rehab hospital is from Finland and is going back there this Summer to visit and she invited me to come as well. She'll be there for a month but I will be there for a couple of weeks starting at the end of July. I figured that there will be no other time that I will have my own personal tour guide of Finland as well as a place to stay. It should be fun. It will be my first time in Europe with a wheelchair which will be an adventure in itself. But I'm very very excited.
That's it for now!
Hope you enjoy your Summer!!!!
3 comments:
Boston has been HOT this summer! Finland sounds awesome. You should look up Mimmu Sloan--did you know her in the Arlington Ward? Enjoy your trip! And thanks for blogging.
I remember Mimmu, but I don't think she would remember me.
Who would not remember you?! Nice that you finally blogged again. A nice Skype is now in order.
: )
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