Student Success Statement

Regarding successful living:

“There is no giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.”

ANON

This statement is telling us that reaching our goals is going to take both time and effort. We won’t be able to achieve our goals overnight. We need to take little steps in order to achieve a goal. 

Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities:

 Recreational therapist provides treatment services and recreational activities for individuals with disabilities or illnesses. They use a variety of techniques including arts and crafts therapists help individuals reduce depression, stress, and anxiety; recover basic motor functioning and reasoning abilities; build confidence; and socialize effectively so that they can enjoy greater independence and reduce or eliminate the effects of their illness or disability. In addition, therapists help people with disabilities integrate into the community by teaching them how to use community resources and recreational activities.

Average Salary; $26,000-$41,000

Educational Requirements

Students should take the most challenging high school courses in math, science and English. Most entry level recreational therapist need a bachelor’s degree in therapeutic recreation.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

William Penn

I think that this quote means that you have to be fully committed to doing the right thing.  We shouldn’t be afraid if going against what is wrong. Majority doesn’t rule if you try hard enough. You can start the beginning of a united movement for great causes. An individual has so much power than can gain noteworthy attention. Attention that will lead others to follow the path of courageousness and what is great. 

Thoracic Surgeon

Duties and Responsibilities:

A thoracic surgeon performs heart, lungs, esophagus, and other organs in the chest. The thoracic surgeon is responsible for all anesthesia and cutting open and stitching of the patient. The thoracic surgeon also prescribes medication for pain relief and a quick recovery.

Salary: $101,736 - $486,053

Education:

You need a completion of any four-year that meets the prerequisites needed to get into medical school, four years in medical school, five years in a surgical residency program, and two to three years of advanced training in cardiothoracic surgery.

I don’t think I would like to become a thoracic surgeon because it is a really dangerous job. 

Student Success Statement

Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question ‘Is it popular?’

But, conscience, asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells on that it is right.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

We are focusing on things that we shouldn’t be focusing on. We pay attention to “popular things” just to fit in with others. We rather look “cool” and do something bad than to do the right things and have others look at us as “lame people”. Being different is a risk one should be willing to take.  We must fight against society that makes us teenagers seem like bad kids. We only live once so we have to make sure to do the right things in order to experience life in a good way. We need to choose the right whether its popular, safe, politic, or not. 

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Radiologic Technologists perform diagnostic imaging examinations, like x-rays on patients and manage the kind of equipment used. They keep detailed records and evaluate the images taken with cameras.  They have a responsibility to make sure the patient is as safe as can be at all times. They work in many kinds of health practices.

Salary: $55,910 per year

$26.88 per hour

Education:

Students should take the most challenging math, science, and English courses available in high school. To become a registered radiologic technologist, students must complete a two year training program in a hospital or school.  A high school diploma or GED certificate is required for entry into these programs.

I would not like to work in this field because I do not like mathematics. 

Student Success Statement

“Let us have faith that makes right, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

Abraham Lincoln

 We need to believe that choosing the right will lead to more righteousness in the world. If we keep up the idea that what we’re doing is a difference, discouragement will not be able to touch us. If we believe then we feel that push to keep on going. Deep inside the beauty of morality has been instilled in all of us. If it hasn't we need to dig up the willpower to seek it.  We need to try our best to do what we think we were brought here to do. We are here to change the world. At least that’s why I’m here and I believe together we can make it better. 

Radiation Therapist

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

Radiation therapists administer radiation treatments and explain them to questions while answering questions as well. Follow safety procedures to protect the patient and themselves from overexposure to radiation and make sure the machines are working properly. They X ray the patient to determine the exact location of the area requiring treatment and operate radiation machines. They closely monitor the patient as well.

Salary: $77,560 per year

$37.29 per hour

Education: Candidates may qualify by completing a 12 month program but those who have Associate's or Bachelor’s degrees are favored by employers.

I think I would like to work in this field because it seems very interesting and you earn a lot of money. 

Student Success Statement

“The reward for doing the right is mostly an internal phenomenon:

Self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.”

-Dr.Laura Schlessinger

I think that this means that your quality of life will improve when you begin choosing the right. When you do what is correct you will find that your character is one with a stronger sense of respect because you feel how your trustworthiness because not only apparent to others but as to you as well. Others will trust you and you have this new respect for you that prevents from anything unworthy of you are to enter or take over your life. 

Psychologist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychologists study the behavior and actions of people to understand, explain, and change their behavior patterns.  They also provide counseling and therapy to those with emotional, learning, and behavior problems.  They work in a variety of health establishments as well as private practice

Average Salary:  $45,000 - $65,000

Educational Requirements:

AP and IB classes should be taken with a focus on English and Science. Licensed psychologists must earn a Ph.D. in psychology.  Admission to graduate programs is usually dependent on the quality of undergraduate performance in a psychology major.  Clinical psychologists must complete a two-year supervised internship after earning their doctorate and pass oral and written state qualifying exams. School psychologists must earn at least a master's degree. 

Student Success Statement

“Right is right only when entire”

Victor Hugo

I think that this quote means that you have to be fully committed to doing the right thing. Going halfway is a waste of time when you can hustle through and do what you’re supposed to. Accomplishing this goal will give you a good feeling inside. Let’s say I make a big old lie but I tell part of the truth. Should I be forgiven? No. I have chosen the wrong for not telling the complete truth. 

Student Success Statement

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you continue to try on what you want to achieve you will get better and better at it and it will become easy to do because you will get used to it, If I look back on all the things I have improved on because I tried it makes me feel prud. If I don’t understand something now all I have to do is try and I’ll get it. I know I will. Persevering will help you achieve your goals. If I don't understand a math problem I will do it over and over again until I succeed, even if it means staying in for lunch or staying after school, that way  i will get better at it and it will be easier to do.

Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness.  As physicians, they are licensed to use a very wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  Their duties include designing treatment programs, conducting psychotherapy sessions, prescribing potent mental illness drugs, supervising electrotherapy treatments, conducting research, and lead a team of mental health team providers.

Average Salary:  $90,000 - $200,000

Educational Requirements:

In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

I would not like to work in this field because I am not really interested in helping others with their mental problems and it also seems very stressful. 

When you tell one lie

When you tell one lie

When you tell one lie, it leads to another

So you tell two lies to cover each other

They you tell three lies and, oh brother

You’re in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you

Then you tell five lies so folks won’t suspect you

Then you tell six lies and you’ll collect

A life filled with worries and fears

‘Cause you can’t remember how many lies you’ve told

And half the things you say aren’t true

And sometimes you’ll slip up, you’ll trip up and then

Whatever will become of you?

So you lie and lie without even trying

And each lie you tell will keep multiplying

Till the whole wide world will know you’re lying

Then you’ll be

Suspected

Detected

Rejected

Neglected

Dislikes

And you should!

When you lie, you’re closing the door

On everything good 

Student Success Statement

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

Thomas Edison, Inventor

The material stuff doesn’t matter, what matters is how you act and the beauty we have within us. Material things don’t make us who we are. It is more important to be generous and have a good heart than to be rich and have bad intentions. We all have our own personalities and the material things won’t change it. 

Psychiatric Aide Technician:

Duties and Responsibilities:

The main responsibility of a psychiatric aid is to provide assistance and care services to mentally ill and/or emotionally disturbed patients. As a psychiatric aide, you work directly under the supervision of a medical team. You also assist patients with making their beds, taking their medications, completing paperwork, bathing, getting dressed, grooming, eating, completing tasks, attending doctor’s and therapy appointments and socializing with others. They monitor patients and provide emotional care. They need to observe them and help them adjust to medical routines.

Salary: $27,440 per year or $13.19 per hour

Education:

At least a high school diploma is needed but they get on-the-job training. Psychiatric technician programs include courses in biology, psychology, and counseling. The programs also may include supervised work experience or cooperative programs, in which students gain academic credit for structured work experience. Programs for psychiatric technicians range in length from 1 semester to 2 years, and they may award a certificate or an associate’s degree. Postsecondary courses in psychology or mental health technology may be helpful.

In my opinion I don’t think I would like to become a psychiatric technician because it seems really stressful and I’m not good at communicating with other people. 

Student Success Statement

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined”

Henry Davis Thoreau

Follow your dreams, do whatever it takes to get to where you always wanted to get to. If you have things that you want to accomplish in life, do them do whatever it takes for you to reach your dream or your goals. Get the chance to live the life that you’ve always imagine having. Keep looking forward and choose the right decision to have a good life, good future don’t look back. Be confident about yourself that you can do it. Don’t think negative about yourself. Don’t let anything stop you from achieving your goals. If you are persistent and follow your goals you will live the life you dreamed of having. 

Pharmacist

Duties and responsibilities: Duties and Responsibilities:

                Pharmacists compound, or prepare, prescriptions written by practitioners.  They review these prescriptions to validate their accuracy and then prepare the medication.  They weigh, measure, and mix drugs and then they are dispensed to the patients. Pharmacists answer patients' and customers' questions about the drugs they are taking and OTC drugs.  In some cases, pharmacists are responsible for taking inventory of the drugs on the shelves and ordering any which they are low on. Pharmacists work in hospitals, clinics, health departments, universities, and grocery, drug, and discount stores.

Average Salary:  $33,000 - $51,000

Educational Requirements:

AP or IB classes available in English, science, and math should be taken. All pharmacists must graduate from a college of pharmacy.  Most pharmacy schools require applicants to take the Pharmacy College Admissions Test (P-CAT), and some require up to two years of pre-pharmacy education.  Other colleges will admit students directly from high school.