Student Success Statement

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

-Anonymous

I think this quote means that when you’re trying to complete a task or goal you won’t complete it in one try/step. It will take many try/steps for you to truly complete it. Like another saying goes “Rome wasn’t built in a day”, you won’t complete your task in a day either. 

Recreation Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities

Recreational therapists plan, direct, and coordinate recreation-based treatment programs for people with disabilities, injuries, or illnesses. Recreational therapists use a variety of moralities, including arts and crafts, drama, music, dance, sports, games, and community reintegration field trips to help maintain or improve a patient’s physical, social, and emotional well-being.

Average Salary: $42,000

Educational Requirements

In order to become a recreation therapist you need a bachelor’s degree in recreational therapy. You then must complete a 12-15 week internship.

Would you like to be one?

I can see myself being a recreation therapist. It seems like a fun job.

Student Success Statement

“Right is right, even when everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even when everyone is for it.”

-William Penn

What this quote is basically saying is that right will always be right, no matter how unpopular the choice may be. And wrong will always be wrong, no matter how popular the choice is. It is important to always choose the right, no matter how popular that decision is.

X-Ray Technician

Duties and Responsibilities

X-ray technicians 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 radiologic tests. They may work in hospitals, clinics, medical laboratories, nursing homes, and in private industry.

Average Salary: $24,000-$36,000

Educational Requirements

To become a registered x-ray technician, 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.

Would you like to be one?

I wouldn’t want to be a x-ray technician because it doesn’t interest me.

Student Success Statement

“Cowardice asks the question ‘Is it safe?’

 Expediency asks the question ‘Is it polite?’

 Vanity asks the question ‘Is it popular?’ 

But, conscience asks the question ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor polite, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”

-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

I think what this quote means is that your conscience tells you what’s right or wrong no matter how safe, polite, or popular that choice is. There can be many factors when choosing the right but your choice shouldn't be affected by cowardice, expediency, or vanity. It should only be affected by how right it is.

Radiologic Technologist

Duties and Responsibilities

Radiologic technologist use x-ray 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 radiologist tests and treatment that will be performed. They place the equipment at the right distance and right angle from the patient to make 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

Would you like to be one?

I woudlnt want to be a radiologist technician because it doesn’t interest me.

Student Success Statement

“Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.”

-Abraham Lincoln

What this quote means is that we must always do right and when we do right we have to have faith in ourselves to do right. We should also have faith no matter what we do, till the day we die you should always have faith. You should always do right and have faith in yourself.