February has completely gotten away from me. I started classes at the University of St.
Thomas on the fourth. It has been an
enlightening experience so far. I love
my classes and teachers. I’m taking
Public Communications and Mass Communications Research Methods. They are both required within my major, which
is Communications and Journalism. I’m
very excited happy that I chose such a great school. The campus is gorgeous and
I look forward to going there every day.
Although the schedule was a challenge at first, I’m getting better at
managing it. I go to class Monday
through Thursday; I’m not used to being out that much. However, it’s definitely getting me prepared
for having a job in the future.
The hardest part so far has been transportation. I take a bus service called Metro
mobility. It’s a rideshare program where
you call and set up your rides, stating what time you’d like to be picked up at
and need to be there by. They determine
based on what other people have scheduled what fits best with each driver. Unfortunately, a computer does all the work
and doesn’t calculate loading and unloading or waiting for passengers. They are on a tight schedule and it makes it
hard to ride with them. The only good
thing is that I can get bus tickets through the state which means I don’t have
to pay for them. They charge four dollars for peak time (6-9 AM and 3-6 PM) and
three dollars for nonpeak.
Since I’m gone at school four days out of the week, it
doesn’t leave much time for other appointments or homework. Hence the reason I haven’t been able to do
any blog posts lately. (I’ve been
working on this one for a while now!) Nursing has gotten a little better. We hired two nurses, one full-time and one
part-time however, there are still some holes in the schedule. Aside from that, a few other people have been
willing to fill in on open shift days.
That’s always nice, especially because we get more back up that
way. Although, that also means I’m busy
that day training in the new ones.
This is only the beginning of my blog post… Stay tuned in
the next couple days for the other half.
Jenni
