I know I'm late, but this is what happens when you spend most of your waking day away from the computer. So sue me. I currently go to a technical college. I'm going for my phlebotomy certificate, so that I might gain some solid clinical experience before I try to reapply to medical school. I've noticed over the course of the past nine weeks, though, that I am not a typical student in this class. I am 21, I have both a high school diploma and a bachelor's degree. I live with my mother (sort of), and help raise my two little sisters. I'm not planning on using this certificate to access a career in phlebotomy; I'm using it to become one of the most powerful people in the hospital. I have good health insurance (at least for as long as I'm in school), and my mom can afford to send me through this program without any difficulty. However, I opted to put myself through the program because she's already put me through college (though I still paid the bulk of that through scholarships). The rest of my class? Well, we have one girl younger than me; she's 19, and has a GED. She's pregnant and married, and is on medicaid. We have another girl, probably in her early 20's, also pregnant. The father of her baby is her ex-boyfriend who goes around treating his girlfriends like crap, and has taught is 4 year old son to call his mother a bitch. Needless to say, she has no intention of listing him on the birth certificate. Another woman in the class is m ...
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