Hello! My name is Samantha Stapleton. My favorite holiday is Halloween. My favorite color is green. I do not like the color pink. I like to listen to the rain and drink hot cocoa. I do not like sugar cookies. My family currently lives in Surgoinsville, Tennessee but we have also lived in Colorado, Kansas, and West Virginia. My father was a tanker in the United States Army and we moved about every three years. I have an older sister who is twenty six and a younger brother who is fifteen. I participated in band through middle school and high school but decided not to continue into college for fear of not having enough time. I played French horn and mellophone. In high school I also participated in FBLA, Mu Alpha Theta, Beta Club, and the Science Bowl team. I also decided to drop these activities upon starting college. I am eighteen years old and a freshman at UT. I am majoring in Biomedical Engineering, and I am very happy with my choice of major. I enjoy math and science very much. I like to read, but unfortunately have a bad habit of procrastinating when it comes to writing. I often find myself doing homework in advance for my chemistry or physics classes instead of starting my papers, but once I actually start writing my paper it doesn't take long for me to finish it. I am aware that my procrastination is a problem and I am willing to admit that I need help. Hopefully this class will help me face my fear of writing.
Wow, you sound like you were very busy in high school! I am glad that college has been a good transition for you, though, and that you are enjoying your major.
ReplyDeleteNo worries about the writing--we will look at way to get jumpstarted on the writing process and talk about ideas in class, so that should help everyone get started sooner on their papers.
*ways* to get started, I mean.
ReplyDeleteSee? The learning process never stops. We all have things we need to work on. Mine is proofreading, apparently :)
Wow, biomedical engineering sounds like something I would be scared to get into. Truthfully, I don't even know what it means. Does it have something to do with making vaccines or something? I guess I'm not really scared to show my ignorance, but I would really like to know more about it. Did your dad retire from the Army?
ReplyDeleteI am happy to hear that we will work on ways to get started writing. :)
ReplyDeleteYes my father is retired from the military now and biomedical engineering is more like designing medical equipment than vacines. I will hopefully be making prosthetic limbs and joints or machines that will make diagnosing medical issues easier or more accurate. I am not positive but I think vacines are under biosystems maybe? Biomedical engineering is a branch of mechanical engineering geered towards the medical field.
ReplyDeleteHey! I think it's awesome that you were in the band throughout middle school and high school. I've always envied people that could play musical instruments.
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