Hacking Your Education

This semester i really hope that what we learn can really help me take the steps into nursing! What i really want to learn about is to get more of an understanding in the medical field because that is where i want to spend the rest in my career in and getting a feel of it now can really help me determine if its right for me. One thing i really want to demonstrate this semester is my determination i have to reach my goals and that becoming a nurse really means a lot to me because its what ive always wanted to be!

Vocabulary #2

Accoutrements-additional items of dress or equipment
Apogee-the highest point of development
Apropos- an opportune time
Bicker-to argue about petty matters
Coalesce- to come together and form one whole
Contretemps- an embarrassing occurrence
Convolution- a form or shape that is folded in curved windings
Cull-to select from a group
Disparate- completely distinct or different in kind
Dogmatic- characterized by or the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts
Licentious-lacking legal or moral restraints
Mete- to distribute or give out by measure
Noxious-harmful, poisonous or very unpleasant
Polemic-an agressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another
Populous-containing many people or inhabitance
Probity-complete and confirmed integrity
Repartee-a swift witty reply
Supervene-occur later than a specified or implied event or action
Truncate-to shorten by or as if by cutting off
Unimpeachable-inquestionable

Profile on Courage

 Today we watched murderball and it was so much different then what i expected it to be! Murderball is  a movie about people who have spinal problems and they play this rough game of rugby on wheelchairs. In the beginning of the movie we get introduced to a couple of the players and they explain their story but some of them didnt have spinal problems at birth some of them got it through tragic accidents. I really have to give a lot of props to these guys because they are just so strong and they dont want any pity because of the condition they have they just want to be treated like any other person.

The Choice

We all have to make choices in our life, some are harder than others but we pull through. I know I make choices on a daily basis whether it is something simple like whether to eat some cereal in the morning or eating some toast? But ive also made some really tough decisions that were difficult to deal with. One realization ive been though is realizing that someone so close to me, someone i trusted trusted with all my secrets becomes this negative energy in my life. No matter how hard i made excuses for that person the more exhausted and emotionally drained I became and who wants to make the choice not to have that person if your life anymore? Even though it was a hard decision to make it was also the best one ive made.

Vocab #1 Performance Review

For the most part i would have to say that i did pretty good on the vocab quiz! I studied all of the words and made sure i was using the words in sentences that made sense.

The Choice

1. The choice is referred to in the title by the choice of whether he is making the choice to give his daughter the poison or if she will make the choice on taking it herself.

2. It is a real choice because the poison is actually the medicine for his daughters cancer and the reason why they call it that is because it is poisoning her cells. The alternative of not taking the drugs is that she will die and the worst part about the drug is that it might kill the good cells that she need for growth.

3. I think the author uses poison in the first line because he wants it to stand out in the article, to make it a appoint that it is the focal point.

4. I think the daughter wanted a chance to be able to play with toys that are for older kids because i think she might of had the thought that she wont be able to play with them in the future. And i do agree with her because if i were a parent going through the same situation theyre going through even though i would hate to think of the possibility of my daughter/son of dying i would still want them to feel they can conquer anything no matter the age they are.

5. If i thought i might not live to the age of 30 i would want to travel everywhere i had the chance too because that is always been a big dream of mine, to travel the world

6. Well in this article the daughter hates taking her medicine but her parents enforce it because they want her to get better. And even when she was going through chemo she had a bunch of tubes attached to her which the father describes on the look on her face she hated every second of it. But even through all this discomfort if their is a chance the daughter might have her sickness go away who wouldn't take the chance of all this discomfort to save her life.

7. I really don't think we need to suffer in our lives because if you are suffering whats the point of living? I know its a harsh thing to say but no one wants to suffer in throughout their life it just gets tiring after awhile.

Life After This Blog Post

we got the chance to actually send a letter to our future self which i thought was pretty unique and cool! it was a great experience because its nice to see what might be your interests now and how they might be different in the future. Its crazy to think how you might have your life planned out now like right now i want to major in nursing but my future self might not be interested in that but over all it was a pretty cool experience to send a letter to my future self and i cant wait to receive it!