Dreams and Reality.

I chose to attend Xavier University because it has always been my dream to become some type of doctor. When I was asked what I want to be when I grow up my response was always… ” A Doctor.” In high school  I wanted to be either a Dermatologist, an Onocologist, or a Pharmacist but My junior year of high school I decided that I would like to be a Pharmacist. The summer before my senior year I started researching colleges that I would like to attend. I knew that I did not want to be far from Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Xavier University had everything I needed in a university. I wanted the university to be close to home yet far enought to get away, I wanted small classroom sizes, I wanted a personal and supportive learning environment. All of things plus much more define Xavier University perfectly.

My expectations are to overcome the obstacles that are necessary for me to succeed. As Dr. Adams said in class I now know the question is not ” Can i do this” the question is “How can I do this?” I know I can do anything that I put my mind to.  I expect to be on the deans list for every year that I am here. I expect to graduate and be able to be successful wheather I decide to be a  retail Pharmacist or I go on to study Pharmacology. I expect to be an african american woman who can carry herself with grace, poise, and eloquence. I expect to do anything in my power to reach my dreams and do great things. The next step is not to just Talk about it, It is to BE ABOUT IT.

Why did you choose to attend Xavier?

I, R. C.M., chosen to attend Xavier was because my whole life my dream is to become a doctor. I thought Xavier would be the best school for me to attend since, I am an African-American and they are number one in the country in getting blacks accepted into medical school.  Other reasons I attend Xavier is because they are family orientated, and I believe that their staff care for every student that comes to Xavier. The reasons I dream of becoming a doctor is because of watching and know people who had surgery’s, the type of doctor I wont to be is a plastic surgeon. when I receive my goal in life I hope I would be able to give back to my city, like help others that are not as fortunate as others to afford what they wont done. A reason I also choose Xavier is because I think I will receive the best and most Knowledge to excel in medical school and become one of the best plastic surgeons. other reasons that made me wont to be a doctor is because of hearing family members talking about what they wont done to their bodies as the reach a certain age like for example “face lifts” and much more. The last and final reason I wont to be a doctor is because people today say “that’s were all the money is”.

Why Xavier?

Why I chose Xavier University? Since I was a little girl all I was told was that I had to become a doctor. Doctors have respect, the lifestyle, and no worries. They don’t have to live “hand to mouth” as my parents say who have come from another country. They don’t want their kids living that life. They want their kids to live a comfortable and happy life.

When it came time to choose the college that I would be attending my next four years, it came down to three choices: Loyola, LSU, and Xavier. My mom didn’t want to send me to LSU, so that was out of the question. Loyola is a good college but not a great college for people who are interested in medicine. I had so many of my older college friends transfer from Loyola to Xavier. They all told me that Xavier was an excellent school. Xavier cares for their students unlike other colleges. The teachers are really nice and so helpful. So, I made my decision and Xavier was the college for me. Xavier has a great med program, people and teachers are nice, the campus is easy to navigate, and its close to home.

Some of the things that I expect is making the best possible grades I can, succeeding in everything I partake in, making a couple of friends along the way, come out of my comfort zones, and become a better person for myself and the community. My biggest expectation is getting the help and utilizing that help to enter med school.

Coming to Xavier

It all started when my high school basketball teammates and I came back from Christmas vacation and saw a young lady and a man using our shooting machine in our gym. As we got dressed and came into the gym, the man monitored our practice and made a few jokes. I really didn’t think anything because there were always different people coming in and out of our gym. The next time I saw the man and the young lady was after one of our games not too long after. He wanted me to sit talk to him and then he introduced himself as Coach Robert Browder, head coach of Xavier Gold Nuggets women’s basketball team, he was with one of his players (also from Shreveport). He asked me different questions about my grades and if I was a hard worker. Then he asked me the question that I’ll never forget, “Would you be interested in coming the Xavier?” At that point I was happy with going anywhere out of my home, so of course I said yes. After that day I began looking into Xavier and the courses they had to offer. I was very impressed with the academics as well as with the team. A month or two later, I received a call from my former coach telling me that I had receive a full scholarship to Xavier University and of course I accepted it  without any hesitation.

My expectations are getting the best education I can get. I expect to learn everything that I need to in my field before I graduate and go to medical school.  I know that the road will be tough especially playing a sport and trying to maintain a high GPA, but I know that I can and will do whatever it takes to succeed. I expect to leave Xavier a better person than when I came.

Blog 1

I chose Xavier University for a multiple of reasons. The most significant reason is its obvious known prestige for being the number one undergraduate school for putting black students into medical school.  My goal following graduation of college is matriculating to medical school. I also have various advisors/mentors who also have directed me to this school because of their own knowledge of the richness of culture and academic empowerment that Xavier University of Louisiana provides.

Initially, I was expecting college to be somewhat completely unbearable, when my family and I had seen the courses I would be taking this year. I was constantly told that three chemistry classes and two biology classes would be too much to handle. But after arriving and realizing the setup of how Xavier educates its students academically, I realize that it is evenly proportioned well enough for me to be challenged, but still successfully function. I love how everyone here is just not eager to prosper, but willing to fulfill what it takes and carry out the necessary duties to do so.

My expectations socially, have also been fulfilled. I will admit that coming to Xavier, I like many others, was aware of the female to male ratio. People might find this comical but it is true. College is supposed to be some of the best years of your life. I feel with this beautiful environment around me, this will be evident. I am also glad to have meet friends, because another one of my expectations was that there would be little time for social gatherings amongst friends due to the rigorous curriculum. I do expect times to get rough academically, in the near future. But I am assured that with the help of the staff and tutors, and being around newly made friends with the same goals and career paths, we will all achieve.

Blog1: My Reason for Xavier

All my life I had dreamed of being a doctor and up until last year, my career choice changed. I knew I still wanted to work in the medical field and I knew that my calling was to help others in such a way that will glorify my God.  But I knew myself, and though I wanted a medical profession, I know I didn’t want to be in school for ten plus years of my life. Besides school, my goals include having a family and being able to travel abroad on missions before I’m thirty and medical school and residency for many of these medical professions would just be too much and too long. That was when I wanted to be a pharmacist: easy job, good pay, and best of all only six to seven years of school.

In my senior year of high school, I started reviewing different colleges to see which one would fit my need. My cirteria was that the collge would be close to home and had its own pharmacy school. I am from New Orleans and I have lived here seventeen years of my life. I love our culture down here, I love the food, the people, my family and friends; I knew I wouldn’t be able to leave them and Xavier was the opportunity I had to stay. Xavier was right for me because it only takes thirty minutes to get to school, twenty if there’s no traffic. The campus is small and very intimate which makes it easy to navigate . The best thing about Xavier is that it has it’s own college of pharmacy so that in two years, I still won’t have to leave my family or home.

My expectations for Xavier are very very high. As it is a university founded on catholic foundations, I expected a friendly, Godly atmosphere which I have experienced so far. A lot of the staff and even students are very helpful and friendly when I have approached them with questions. I’m looking to make a lot of new friends at Xavier as well as familiarize myself with the staff on campus. I know that Xavier will provide good tools for me to finish my schooling here and that it will prepare me for my career later on.  I hope it will give me a unique, pleasant college experience.

Why I Came to Xavier

I decided to attend Xavier University of Louisiana for many reasons. Honestly at first I did not know about Xavier until my uncle recommended I should attend. When I did finally look up the information I decided that Xavier would be an excellent school for me to enroll into. My first reason for wanting to come to Xavier was because it is a well known university that is ranked number one for getting African Americans into medical school and or other professional graduate schools, and that is exactly what I am trying to do. My goals are to get into medical school and become a doctor. Another reason is because they have a very high success rate, and I definitely want to be successful. Also I liked the fact that Xavier is a private school and relatively a small university, which means it, has smaller class sizes and the teachers can better interact with the students. At Xavier the students can actually be more than a number in the system unlike at large universities. I was also interested in the fact that Xavier is the only school that is black and catholic and it is a HBCU. Mostly all the schools I have been to throughout my educational career have been predominately white, and I am glad that now I will get a chance to be in a predominately black community. One at which I am more likely to succeed in and will have more support. Those are the reasons why I decided to attend Xavier. My expectations, now that I am enrolled in Xavier are to be successful throughout my whole time here at Xavier. I hope to get exceedingly high grades and that I get into medical school. I think that I will have a lot of support and encouragement and when it is time for me to go to medical school and I get in I will do good there to and go on to be a good doctor, helping out the community and giving back to other people.

Choosing Xavier/My Expectations

I chose to attend Xavier because I wanted to further my learning at a respective school that I knew was capable of giving me all of the knowlege needed to succeed in my future careers and indevers.  I wanted to go to a college that was close to home, rich in history, and had a pharmacy program.  In my opinion, Xavier was the only school that fit these requirements.  I know that if I put my mind to it, I can achieve whatever I want to accomplish and I believe Xavier is the school that will try their hardest to help me achieve these goals.  I have many expectations.  I expect to graduate at the top of my class with no regrets and jobs begging me to work for them.  I expect Xavier to be challenging but I know I can pass the classes I need.  I expect to become a Pharmacist by the year 2016 and have a job within 6 months of graduation.   I expect to join a fraternity and become a part of Xaviers unique history.  After graduating, I want to be a successful pharmacist, hopefully with my own pharmacy business.  I expect to have the money that my family never had and help my siblings get into college with the information I never had.  I also want a wife and I want to have the money to give her what she needs.  In all, I expect to be the most successful person I can be and it will all be because of my hard work and dedication and Xavier will be the school that will get me to that petsitile.  I know with my work ethic and Xavier’s committment to my success, it won’t be long before I am coming to Xavier as an Alum and showing love to my fellow Xavierittes.

My ultimate goal at Xavier is….

Choosing which college is best for you is definitely not an one-minute option nor it is an insignificant decision that can just igonore its late-on outcome: Rather it’s a critical process especially when you’re short in time.

Harvard, John Hopkins, Tulanes are the top ranked choices in the nation if your goal is to earn a doctorate degree. Beside the fact that these colleges are known for their ability of producing top-quality education, their high tuition is also a known factor as well. It’s a lie if I say that Xavier was my first choice because it wasn’t. Xavier was indeed belong to the second group of my choices. However my final decision has unexpectedly turn out to be Xavier. The two main reasons were because of its offer to me of a full scholarship and its campus location which allows me to travel from home and back hom in a reasonable amount of time. In addition, I surveyed some people who are currently Xavier students. From them, I came to know that the university has adopted several plans in hope to boost up the advancement level of their pre-med program, and some results have obviously be seen or acknkowledged by public and other colleges.

Within the four years spending at Xavier, my hope is to expand my knowledge upon several fields such as science, literature, and public communication skill. Furthermore, I want myself to get use to the complexity of the learning and understanding porcess expecting this to help me with my further study in medicine school and my career in the future.

Dr. Calvin Macki, the author of A View from the Roof– Lesson for LIfe & Business, has an inspiring quote which said “There is Honor and Dignity in Whatever You Do as Long as You Are Adding to Society and Not Taking Anything Away From It.” I believe this is the mind-set that each and every one of us college students should carry with us as a word of encouragement during any time of failure. Whether we do well in college or not it’s no longer the matter of individual but others’ as well. And hopefully Xavier will be the light that can shine our way through, to a better future–I hope.

Mackie, Calvin. A View from the Roof. United States: Acanthus     Pub, 2005.

Ambition

I really didn’t choose Xavier, it choose me. When I decided to become a pharmacist, I really didn’t have a choice and choose Xavier. I would have to apply to The college of Pharmacy eventually, so why not start at Xavier from the beginning. I really didn’t think I would get into Xavier. I’m not the smartest person. Most of the time I’m lost and confused. If I really think of the real reason I choose Xavier, it would be so I could prove myself. See, when I was in high school I got expelled. I really liked that school and it was picky with who comes into the school like Xavier. Since that expulsion I have been trying to prove to myself that I could keep up with the best. I never got the opportunity untill now. Just getting in isn’t going to cut it. I would like to be able to do well in my classes. Another reason I choose Xavier was because my foster-sister went there. She’s extremely bright. Also a good friend of mine, I think of  as my dad went here. If they could do it, why not me? I don’t really expect much from Xavier, just to teach me what I need to succeed. I expect more from myself than anything. I would like to be the best at what I do. Who knows I might be a research pharmacist and discovery the cure for HIV or cancer. In the mean time I’m going to try to not fail. That’s all I can do. When I choose Pharmacy. People told me I was ambitious. Indeed I am. I tend to always fall short somewhere but I already know that things will be difficult for me. If things being difficult  stopped me then I wouldn’t be alive today.