I could’ve been a surgeon. When I was younger, I loved watching discovery health. I liked watching gruesome stories of how people were sent to the ER. I also liked watching doctors perform surgeries on various shows. So when I was in college, I couldn’t decide between engineering and med school. So I became a biomedical engineering(BME) major pre-med student. WHOOOOO that was definitely not the best decision for me . Anyway, after breaking my back my first year in college to get into the BME program, i finally began to take some of my pre-med courses during my second year. My first course was organic chemistry. I thought to myself, “ I was a beast in Chem in high school and during my 1st year, this should be a piece of cake! Then after the first class, I realized I was “drawing pictures” haha. And due to my busy schedule I fell asleep during every class that year, even though I sat in the very front with a red bull in my hand. At that moment, I decided that I had fallen too behind. I hadn’t learned a thing and I was going to fail my first college course. Since I did not want to extend my time in college due to repeated courses, I decide to drop my “pre-med” concentration and just stick to biomedical engineering. Oh and by the way, did I mention that I am a teacher?!? That’s a story for a different day!

These are such great ideas! Thanks for sharing, Alexandria!

Thanks for the suggestion!

Hi Kathleen,
I love your comment about what teachers are worrying about.
Check out this blog on teacher stress:
http://manageteacherstress.edublogs.org/

Don’t stress out LeAnn. Or if you do, read this blog:
http://manageteacherstress.edublogs.org/

Hi Ngaire,

Thanks for sharing your post! I love this line, “These are opportunities to travel and discover places that really, have no address.”

Keep it up!