Bobby- The first segment in today’s episode of Calm Before the Storm, Aiden, Lizzy, and myself will be discussing our selected majors, why we chose what we chose, and to see where our future paths may take us.

Bobby (transition)- So Lizzy as we were talking backstage, you told me that your major is social work. Can you talk further on why you chose it?

Lizzy- well i chose… 

• well I wanna do social work but with the 4+1 program. Which is getting your bachelors and masters in 5 years.
• I plan on going down the path of being a children’s therapist for ages 10-14. 
• I work alot in elementary schools with kids and notice that I connect more with the kids and that they need to have a lot more help. 

• Being a freshman with classes (is hard because you don’t learn any social work stuff until sophomore year)
• Being a therapist
  • My goal is to eventually have my own practice 
  • As much as children can be a tad bit annoying which they are,you have to understand they are just navigating the world still
  • I rather do kids than teenagers because I feel like if you get at them at the early age in life it will make a big impact in the future going forward

Lizzy (transition)- just like me Aiden is also in the social work major, tell us more about your path in social work

Aiden- Just like Lizzy…

-the 4+1 program, master’s in social work

-social work program at UNE is structured very differently compared to other programs at other schools (more healthcare focused)

-sophomore classes are different (have more social work classes)

-want to work in healthcare (my mom works in healthcare, LNA, perinatal birth registrar)

-wanted to help people since a very young age, excited to see what the future holds

-want to be able to help parents/families in need

-I was a premature baby and my parents needed that point person

-want to work in peds ICU, which leads us to Bobby 

Aiden (transition): Bobby, what do you want to do?

Bobby-

Major and Why 

• My Major is Medical Biology  
• 3 big reasons
• I’ve always wanted to have a career in which helping others comes as part of the job 
• My mother was a pediatric nurse 
• Fascinated by human anatomy 

Classes 

• Lot of sciences, more medical based classes coming junior year   
• Heavy workload but highly rewarding when effort is put forth

Things Med-Bio has taught me 

• Definitely still interested in medical work
  • Like it when courses correlate material to medical side of things 
• Not a fan of the more analytical side of science, research wouldn’t be bad but not my favorite, showed me that I am a hands on learning as labs increased my knowledge of the classes 

 What I want to do after undergrad

• Like Aiden I am very interested in working in Pediatrics. 
• I am looking into the orthopedic field as well to potentially work with athletes

• Go to more school 
• Internships 

Lizzy- we all might have different majors with different career paths we do still have one thing in common which is we wanna help this society grow and be better.

Aiden-So, I guess that we’ve learned that our majors can go together! There are also a lot of differences, which is super interesting as well.  

Bobby- Don’t go anywhere as when we come back, special guest blah blah will be joining us to talk about blah blah. Stay right there…