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Showing posts with label bachelor's degree. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bachelor's degree. Show all posts

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Update...

So the news as of now...

My wife and I were able to find an apartment in San Antonio, so we have a place to live. This past week, we were both able to finish our Bachelor's degree. I was asked to fill out a survey from the university I attend about my experience. It is an interesting thing to earn a Bachelor's degree...I have this new line on my resume...but I don't feel any different. When I showed up to start my degree, I thought by this time I would feel like a genius and know everything about my major. I think I was wrong...I feel like the more I studied, the more I realized how little I know. In spite of knowing little, I have learned how to learn and I love learning. The rest of my life I will be faced with challenges, new problems, and concerns. I will need to learn how to deal with them when they come, which is something I have developed as a student. I know the process it takes to learn something, I understand how to recognize reliable sources and understand credible arguments. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to get a Bachelor's degree. I know most of the world never gets to walk this path, let alone get a Master's degree. Do I wish I would have studied something different? I don't know. I feel like Economics is a great major for anyone who will have a career that is based on decisions that effect lots of people. Health care is one of those fields. I feel my ability to understand markets, costs and benefits, and many other economic principles will make me a more capable tool to improve the quality of care received by patients. For me, patients are the reason I came into this field and I am determined to keep that focus. I hope during my studies in hospital administration, I will maintain that focus of the patient. On those days where I don't think I can read another word from a textbook, or listen to another minute of a lecture, I just have to remember the lives I will be capable of effecting for good if I focus, buckle down, and get to work. Lots of random thoughts! Thanks!