Monday, February 23, 2009

Plotting A Path

One of my lifetime goals is to get into pharmacy school and get my doctorate in Pharmacy. There are many steps that require this to happen. Since my flow chart to attend pharmacy school and obtain Pharm. D. started a few years ago, roughly around fall 2005, I'll begin with this time period. 

I had just returned from my last active duty station in Ft. Polk, LA. During the last few months of my stay there, I had been telling myself that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in the army if I didn't have to.  So, technically, my flowchart began then.

I knew in order to get my doctorate in pharmacy, I would need to:

re-enroll in school ---> sign up pre-requisite pharmacy classes --->  study for those classes ---> get good grades in the class ---> continue good grades ---> graduate with an associate's degree in chemistry ---> apply to UIC ---> get accepted to UIC ---> take more pharmacy pre-requisites ---> get good grades in these pre-requisite classes---> join the UIC pre-pharmacy club ---> find work in a pharmacy ---> get on pre- pharmacy club e-board---> take PCAT---> apply to pharmacy school---> get accepted to pharmacy school ---> get good grades in pharmacy school----> graduate with my Pharm. D. 

For my five lives, I selected a pharmacist, a Non- profit organization owner, a Dee-jay, a comedian, and a teacher.

I feel bad because I don't know his first name, but Dr. Park at Swedish Covenant Hospital (773)878-8208

The NPO owner (s): George Randazzo (george@niashf.org) (312) 226-5565 and Warren Chapman (312) 355-0422

DJ B-Man or DJ Bonsu are the DJs: (773)575-7262 B-Man, (708) 612-2752 for Bonsu

Comedian: Donnell Rawlings Donnellonline@gmail.com

the teacher : Sarah Shallwani (630) 709- 9559


For the third part of the assignment... 

I said that I love to go places where I have never been before. So this past weekend I went skiing, in Vermont. The name of the ski resort is Mt. Snow, which is a few hours away from New York. I went with a few of my friends from high school. It was a pretty good experience.I left Friday and got back this morning.  At first I was a little nervous about skiing because I'd never done it before. Because of this I decided that I wasn't going to ski at all.  So I just stuck with tubing. I did eventually gain enough confidence to to ski (actually,  lost a bet) and I did get comfortable enough to where I didn't feel so bad about falling.  I was surprised at myself because I  made it down the mountain one time without falling. Once I did that I was done skiing for the weekend! The rest of the time was spent partying. Barn parties, resort parties, bar parties, cabin parties... we did plenty of partying.  I didn't really get a chance to see much of the state outside of the mountains, but it was cool to get another visit to a different state under my belt. 

1 comment:

  1. My first dream was to become a pharmacist myself... I quickly noticed once i game to UIC that it was NOT for me lol... Had to go with my first Passion, Music! I never been skiing, actually plan on doing it next year.

    Great Blog as always.

    Ben O.

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