Student Success Statement

Regarding successful living:

“There is no giant

Step thatd does it. It’s

A lot of little steps.”

ANON

You cant just take a big step and accomplish something, you must take step by step to do it.

Recreation Therapist

Duties and responsibilities: Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Recreational therapists use a variety of modalities, including arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, sports, games, and community reintegration field trips to help maintain or improve a patient’s physical, social, and emotional wellbeing.

Salary: $42,280 per year

Education: Most recreational therapists need a bachelor’s degree in recreational therapy or a related field. Though less common, associate’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees are also available. Recreational therapy programs include courses in assessment, human anatomy, medical and psychiatric terminology, characteristics of illnesses and disabilities, and the use of assistive devices and technology. Bachelor’s degree programs usually include an internship.

Do you think you would like to be one?

No because I wouldn’t like this type of job.

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 this quote means that even if something is wrong and everyone is for it you must always choose right.

• always choose the right
• dont go on the popular side
• avoid anything wrong
• always try to be on the right side
• never choose the wrong

Thoracic Surgeon

Duties and responsibilities:  A thoracic surgeon is a medical doctor who performs operations on the heart, lungs, esophagus, and other organs in the chest. This also includes surgeons who can be called cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, general thoracic surgeons, and congenital heart surgeons.

Salary: $473,927 per year

Education: Thoracic surgeons have to graduate from medical school and most commonly will go on to complete a five-year general surgery residency. After this they must successfully matriculate through an approved cardiothoracic surgery residency program for either two or three years. Some thoracic surgeons choose to do additional training in a sub-specialized area but this training is largely optional, except for congenital heart surgery.

Do you think you would like to be one?

No because I would not like this type of job.

Student Success Statement

“Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’

 Expediency asks the question ‘Is it polite?’

 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 polite, nor

Popular, but one must take it because one’s

Conscience tells one that it is right.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I think this quote means that you must always choose the right even if it is not popular, safe, or politic.

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and responsibilities: Radiologic Technologists use x-ray machines, ultrasound machines, magnetic resonance scanners, positron emission scanners, and other technologically advanced machines to help diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries under the direction of a physician. 

Salary: $24,000-$36,000

Education: Students should take the most challenging science, math, 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.

Do you think you would like to be one?

No because this is not the time type of job I want.

Student Success Statement

“Let us have faith that right makes

Might, and in that faith let us to

The end dare to do our duty as

We understand it”

Abraham Lincoln

I think this quote means that right is always the better thing to do.

Radiation Therapist

Duties and responsibilities: Radiation Therapy Technologists assist radiologists and onocologists (cancer specialists) in treating diseases by exposing areas of patients' bodies to ionizing radiation.  In addition to helping with treatments, technologists are responsible for maintaining the radiation therapy equipment and helping to maintain patient records.  Radiation therapy is provided in hospitals, public health clinics, cancer treatment centers, and private offices.

Salary: $22,000 - $36,000

Education:   Students should take the most challenging science, math, and English courses available in high school. Students can train to become a radiation therapist in either one or two year programs.  One year programs are often offered by hospitals.  To qualify for a one year program, an applicant must have graduated from an approved program in radiologic technology or been a nurse with education in radiation physics.  A high school diploma or a GED is required to enter two year courses.

Do you think you would like to be one?

No because this is not the job I would want.

Student Success Statement

“The reward for doing

Right is mostly an internal phenomenon:

Self-respect, dignity,

Integrity, and self-esteem.”

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

I think this quote means that when you choose the right you feel good for doing good.

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.  Psychologists work in schools, clinics, hospitals, and private practice.  They can specialize in clinical, educational, quantitative, developmental, social, experimental, and industrial-organizational psychology.  Their duties often include:

·        Diagnosing and treating problems.

·        Interviewing and observing patients.

·        Developing, selecting, and administering tests.

·        Counseling patients, groups, and families.

·        Developing mental health programs.

·        Conducting research and teaching.

Salary: $45,000-$65,000

Education: Students should prepare for a career in psychology by taking the most challenging (AP or IB) high school courses available, especially in 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.

Do you think you would like to be one?

This career seems okay but is not one that I would like.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right only when entire.”

Victor Hugo

I think this quote means that right is only right when it is complete.

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

I think this quote means that you must persist until you succeed.