If I had to look back and describe my senior year I would say it was a vanishing act because I honestly don’t know where it’s gone. People always tell you that your senior year of school will be the fastest year of your life and you always look at them, laugh and say yeah right but in the end I guess they were all right. I have enjoyed every second of my senior year. It wasn’t always fun with all the projects and homework, but looking back I can’t really think of one thing that I would do differently if given the opportunity. All I can say for everyone that is heading or will soon be heading into their senior year is take in every moment and take advantage of every opportunity and never let a good memory slip past. After I graduate I will be starting my first college class in the summer because it will be a pre-requisite for my nursing clinicals, which I will start in the fall at Clark State Community College. I will be going there for the next two years in hopes of obtaining my RN licensure so I can hopefully continue my education even further. OHP has tremendously helped me for the future, it has prepared me to go directly into the field of study that I want to, I am so far ahead of the game with all of the knowledge and practical experience that my lab has given me and I know that the advantage I’ve gained from my time at Hi-Point puts me in the driver seat for my future. So if I can leave you with one bit of advice it would be take full advantage of every opportunity for knowledge because one thing you pass up might be one thing you never have a chance to learn again. Thanks for reading and until next time enjoy life to the fullest.

Well, well, day after day we get closer and closer to graduation and I never know what the next day is going to bring. This last Tuesday I was recognized at Clark State for an outstanding tech prep student award, and then Thursday I had a banquet and recognition for the top 15 students at Hi-Point. In between that I worked Monday and Wednesday and had a track meet on Friday. Whoever said that the end of your senior year was a time to relax and just enjoy the ride was lying. It seems that the end of the year is bringing my busiest times and is luckily keeping me on my toes and not letting me slack off. One thing that is going to make the end of the year even more difficult is the task of trying to juggle the graduation activities at my home school and at Hi-Point all at the same time, all while finishing up my last track season. All I can say is that when all of this is over I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself, it will be such a letdown to not be busy all of the time, I’m sure I’ll enjoy myself for awhile though. All I can say is bring on the graduation and bring on the summer fun.

As the year starts to draw to an end there are a lot of things going on.  Finally, last week, we finished our senior projects, which I just happened to rock, and that was a giant weight lifted off of my chest. Then the very next day we were rewarded with a trip to Kings Island for the math and science day through my college math class. Every time we get past a task like the senior project or go on a trip like Kings Island it signifies a step-by-step process that is getting us to the end of the year, and that brings a giant mixture of emotions.

I’m excited to graduate and get to go to college, but at the same time I’m thinking where did my last twelve years of school go, how did graduation come so fast, and I just wonder and hope that I can make it in the college life. So I would appreciate all of your best wishes and any of the good luck that you can spare, so until next time, stay real.

Daniel and Shana were crowned Prom 2010 King and Queen at last night’s Prom.  The Prom was held at the Bellefontaine campus with the theme “Masquerade.”  Daniel and Shana are both Journeys bloggers and enrolled in the Health Technology program.  Congrats to them both!

You can see more Prom photos here.

What to say about Spring Break? It was one of the quickest and most exciting yet boring times in my life. The quickest parts comes into play when I woke up the Tuesday morning when we had to come back to school and all I could wonder is where did my Spring Break go. It seems like it was just yesterday that it got started.
The most exciting part comes into play because of my HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America) competition that I competed in with many other Health Tech students on the last two days before break got started. We left the Thursday before break started and had our competition that day. I was on a team with three other classmates, which are Sherra Roseberry, Shana Kirkpatrick, and Jessica Abouaf, and we were competing in the HOSA Knowledge Bowl. This was our first year competing so we just figured we would go down there, find out what it was all about and bring back some information to help next year’s team.
As the competition got started we quickly realized that we could do much more than that, and after a few rounds of competition we were in the final round which we were also able to win, making us the State Champs for HOSA Knowledge Bowl and allowing us the opportunity to go to Florida this summer to compete in the National Event.
Not only did my team do well in taking the gold, fellow classmates Jessica Frazier, Abby Adkins and Nikki McNamara won gold in the medical reading competition and Kelli Sprang took the bronze in the Personal Care competition. All the success and the promise of a once-in-a lifetime competition in Florida is what made this the most exciting Spring Break ever.
As for the most boring spring break ever, I either had to work or had a track meet every day over break except for two which didn’t leave me time to relax or have any fun making it one of the most boring Spring Breaks I’ve ever had. Thanks for all your time and wish all of us the best of luck in Florida.

If I could choose to be in another program besides Health Technology, I would like to be in Automotive Technology. I say this because of all the useful skills you could acquire from a lab like that.
One thing that everyone has in common is the fact that they use cars for almost everything they do in their lives, and as everyone knows cars don’t always function perfectly. This fact is what leads me to choose Auto Tech as the lab that I would choose if I weren’t in mine because it would be very useful to have the ability to be able to work on your own car and not have to worry about every little thing that goes wrong with it. You would be able to save money and have the self-satisfaction of the fact that you don’t have to be completely reliant on someone else when something bad does come up with your car. So the knowledge and personal ability are the things that would lead me to choose a lab like Auto Tech if I weren’t in mine.

It has been too long since I’ve had a chance to write to you all, but now I’m back and here to share my experiences with the college process. The first thing I had to do was pick out the colleges that I thought I should apply to, which included the ones that I could transfer my credits from Hi-Point to and the ones that included a class in the health care field. I applied to Clark State Community College, Rhodes State, and Mercy College of Nursing. Applying to the college wasn’t a very complicated process as it just involved filling out their application form, sometimes submitting an official transcript and paying the usually small application fee. But what is like getting into college without having money? I for one can’t afford to pay my way completely through college without some help somewhere along the line, so scholarships are the way to go. Scholarship applications are somewhat alike but also different from college applications. They include all of the basic personal information, but usually include a written part where you state why you deserve this scholarship, and sometimes you have to get letters of recommendation to go along with them. But preparing for college is the biggest challenge of it all, because right now all I want to do is finish up my senior year and get to the summer, but I know in the back of my mind that I have to start preparing for college so when the time comes I’m not behind in the process. But no matter what happens, going to college is in my opinion the best thing to do, getting scholarships will be an immense help and preparing early is the best way to go about it.

Oh man has it been a long time since I’ve been at school. As I’m sure you all already know this snow is putting a damper on everything. I feel like for the last two weeks I haven’t done anything but be cooped up in my house and go to work. It definitely gave me a lot of time to catch up on my sleep, look over my material I was working on in my lab and put in some extra hours at work, but no matter what I’m excited to get back to school and get back into the normal routine of things.
Coming up in March my lab is going to the state HOSA competition where I will be competing with three other students in the Knowledge Bowl. This week and a half off of school has really put a damper on our studying so when we get back to school it will be crunch time and we will have to bear down and put in some serious study hours. No matter the obstacles in the way I’m excited to finally get off my butt, get back on routine and get something done. Until next time enjoy what is hopefully the last of the snow, and be safe.

New Year, New Outlook, New Goals! Boy, oh, boy has it been awhile! It’s nice to finally be able to write to you guys again. This year is going to be a big one,  and I can’t believe this is the last year I will ever spend in high school.
My goals this year are high, but my ambition as of right now is very low. I need to choose the college that I want to attend, and I need to start filling out applications all while staying on task with my schoolwork and continuing to keep my grades up.
I have also set some personal goals for myself, simple things such as eating healthier (maybe not so much fast food) and not being such a procrastinator. Working on my outlook is going to be the hard part of the new year.  I need to have a better outlook on school. Right now when I wake up every morning all I think about is how boring school is and how much I dread going. Kids (myself included) never seem to look on the bright side and see what an opportunity school is and what a great future it sets up for us, so one of my big goals for this year is to see the positives in school and not just the negatives as the year winds down. Hopefully I can attain my goals and finish out my graduating year with huge success and not crash and burn as the year winds down. Until next time!

Bring on the New Year!!!! That’s the way I feel about the new year coming up. I know it’s going to be busy and hard, but I’m as ready as I’m ever going to be. When we first come back from break the first thing we do is start studying for our exams, only to take them all the very next week. Starting with the exams ought to be an interesting way to “ease” back into learning after the break.
My goals for the new year are to keep doing what I’ve been doing. I plan on keeping my grades up and continuing to study while balancing my work schedule on top of it all. One of the first things I need to do is decide where I’d like to go to college at since there’s just so many places to choose from it’s hard to decide which one would be the best for me.
I also need to start thinking seriously about my senior project.  My thoughts about it are the sooner the better. The sooner I can get it finished the better it will be for me. I’m going to try and not let it sneak up on me. So this is what I plan on doing in the new year but as I’m sure you all know hardly anything ever goes as planned, so all I can do is prepare myself to take on whatever comes my way. Thanks for your time and MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL AND TO ALL A GOODNIGHT!!!!!!