At this moment, my plans for after graduation are either to go to grad school or go find a job. I still need to add schools to my list to apply for, but I really want to go to University of North Carolina. I have read about their post graduate program and it seems like a program I really want to be a part of. Some things I want to do in the near future is get a campus tour of Chapel Hill and have a conversation with the program director. In addition to University of North Carolina I am looking into Pennsylvania State University and Possibly at University of Tennessee. I need to do more research on post graduate programs in areas that I would like to be. So far these three schools are the only ones I am considering. I have looked at requirements for these grad schools and I meet the criteria for most of them, with the exception of a GRE score. Something I am doing right now to prepare me for grad school is that I am trying to boost my GPA. Right now I have a 3.550 which is good, but when I start applying I would like to have a 3.6 or higher overall GPA. I don’t think GPA is a large determining factor, but if I can get it higher then this would be one more benefit to my application.
My other plan is to go find a job after graduation. This would be the case if I do not go to one of those graduate schools for whatever reason. I would prefer to work in a college or high school setting. I would also like to stay within Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Over the summer I got to travel A LOT of the united states; Through living in and around these areas long enough I have come to find these are just places I enjoy and find comfort in. Essentially, I will be applying for a few schools and probably double the amount for jobs. I think this will give me a good variety of options so when it comes time to decided what I do after graduating from Emory & Henry I know I will have given myself as many open doors as possible. In addition to responding to my prompt, this week I had some clinical excitement. This weekend I have been traveling with my golf team. We are at the Bridgewater Invitational. I had just finished a hole when my coach pulls up and asks me to look at one of my teammates hands. He explains she had hit hard behind the ball and she felt her hand pop and they had been icing it. My immediate thought was that she had probably just slightly strained her wrist. Once I finally saw her and looked at her hand I knew it was much worse. I didn’t have enough time to do a thorough eval, but could visibly see a lump on the top of her hand. I manual muscle tested her flexor digitorum which was 1/5. I also took her fingers through passive range of motion, both flexion and extension were 10/10 painful. In my short eval I could only determine she had strained it. I instructed my coach to contact the hosting team’s coach to call the Bridgewater AT to the course. I was surprised because they were able to get an AT to her pretty quickly. She ended up going to an urgent care where they did imaging and determined she tore her flexor retinaculum. Although I am sad my teammate is injured, I’m proud she was able to push through her pain and finish her round. I am also happy I was able to be a part of a first response to an injury at the golf tournament. Although I wasn’t able to do much, I was able to relay enough information to get my teammate the necessary help she needed.
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