Student Success Statement

“There is no giant step that does it. It’s a lot of little steps.”

ANON

Reflection: This statement means that you won’t always be able to achieve what you want to right away. Sometimes it will take some time. Maybe it’ll take a week or maybe it’ll take a year. But regardless of how long it takes, you will never give up. Just because you don’t reach your goal the first time, or it takes a long time to achieve it, it doesn’t mean you never will. You just need to be patient. For example, if your goal is to invent something, it’s going to take some time before you get it right. Just because you fail the first few times, it doesn’t mean you’re never going to be able to do it. It’s good to make some mistakes. That way you can learn from them and you’ll know what not to do. So when things don’t turn out right. Just keep trying and they eventually will.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it: and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”

William Penn

Reflection: I think this quote means that we always need to make the right decision no matter what. If we really are about making the right decision, then we will always do it. Even if the right decision isn’t the most popular one. Just because everyone else is making bad decisions, it doesn’t mean you have to. You shouldn’t do anything you might regret just to fit in. For example, if all of your friends are going out and getting drunk, it doesn’t mean you have to. Maybe it might seem fun but bad actions have bad consequences.

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.  They are responsible for explaining and getting patients ready for radiological tests and treatment that will be performed.  They place the equipment at the right distance and right angle from the patient to make the appropriate images for the physician.  Radiographers also assist physicians in performing sophisticated procedures.  It is their responsibility to ensure that the radiology equipment is properly maintained.  They work in hospitals, clinics, medical laboratories, nursing homes, and in private industry.

Average Salary:  $24,000 - $36,000

Educational Requirements:

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.

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Radiation Therapy Technologist

(Radiation Therapist)

Duties and Responsibilities:

Radiation Therapy Technologists assist radiologists and oncologists (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.

Average Salary:  $22,000 - $36,000

Educational Requirements:

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.

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Student Success Statement

“The reward for doing right is almost an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem.”

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Reflection: I think this statement means that choosing the right can make you feel so much better about yourself. For example, if you find a phone and you return it to the owner, you will feel good about yourself. If someone else found it, they might have kept it. But you chose the right and returned it. It makes you feel good about yourself because people notice that you are a good person and you’re trustworthy. When people have nice thoughts about you, you feel 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.

Average Salary:  $45,000 - $65,000

Educational Requirements:

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.

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Student Success Statement

“Right is right only when entire.”

Victor Hugo

Reflection: I think this statement means that something is only right when it’s done for all the right reasons. For example, if you help someone with a problem, you should do it out of the kindness of your heart. You shouldn’t expect to get anything in return or to be able to do whatever you want and get away with it. Because that means you’re doing it for all the wrong reasons; which makes it wrong. No matter how good what you did for them was. So when you do a good deed, do it for all the right reasons. Otherwise, it’s not right.

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

Reflection: I think this statement means that the harder we try, the easier it will be. For example, if you want to learn how to play a sport, you need to keep trying. Maybe you won’t be very good at first, but if you try your best, eventually you will. If you are really committed to trying to learn how to do something, you will try and try until you get the hang of it. No matter how many times you fail.

Psychiatrist

Duties and Responsibilities:

Psychiatrists are physicians who specialize in the problems of mental illness.  As physicians, they are licensed to use a very wide variety of treatment and may write prescriptions.  Psychiatrists may work for the government, have their own private practice, or work in hospitals, clinics, or universities.  Their duties include:

·        Designing treatment programs.

·        Conducting psychotherapy sessions.

·        Prescribing potent mental illness drugs.

·        Supervising electrotherapy treatments.

·        Conducting research.

·        Leading a team of mental health care providers.

Average Salary:  $90,000 - $200,000

Educational Requirements:

In addition to completing the requirements for a degree in allopathic or osteopathic medicine, psychiatrists must complete an intensive three year residency in psychiatry.

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When You Tell One Lie

Paul Hatch

When you tell one lie, it leads to another

So you tell two lies to cover each other

Then you tell three lies and, Oh Brother,

You’re in trouble up to your ears!

So you tell four lies to try to protect you

Then you tell five lies so folks won’t suspect you

Then you tell six lies and you’ll collect

A life filled with worries and fears

‘Cause you can’t remember how many lies you’ve told

And half the things you say aren’t true

And sometime you’ll slip up, you’ll trip up and then

Whatever will become of you?

So you lie and lie without even trying

And each lie you tell will keep multiplying

‘Till the whole wide world will know you’re lying

Then you’ll be

Suspected

Detected

Rejected

Neglected

Disliked

And you should!

When you lie, you’re closing the door

On everything good