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My name is Kaitlyn Patterson. I attend Faith Lutheran Jr./Sr. High School. I have been at this school since the seventh grade. I moved here the summer before seventh grade started. I am now a junior in high school. I plan on graduating in 2009 and attending college at UNLV. I used to want to be a pediatrician but my desires have changed. I'm not entirely sure what I want to do anymore but I believe it will have to do with engineering which will use a lot of math and science. I first took this class because I thought that I was going into the medical field. My sister told me that this class would help a lot in college just as it helps her still. This was all before I changed my mind.

The reasons that I first had for becoming a pediatrician were: I liked little kids, I like helping people, and they are payed well. All in all I decided that it would be a great career for me. Not only would I have a decent income, but I would be helping little kids. It would be a job that I not only enjoy, but a job that would help me live and support my family. Although there is a lot of schooling involved in the medical field it would be worth it. I first planned on going to UNR because it was far away enough from home that I could be independant and experience the whole college life, but close enough so that I could get back if I was needed. I also heard that there was an excellent medical program up at UNR and that the they had four seasons unlike the two that I have where I currently am. Another bonus was that my sister attended UNR. I'm one of the few that really get along with their sister so to be around her in college would have been great. The snow would have been great up there and I would already be familiar with it and have some friends from high school there as well.

Even though that idea sounds really grand...my mind was changed for many good reasons. First, the three main reasons that I wanted to become a pediatrician changed. I still like little kids, but now some ages bother me. I'm sure I would get over that, but for now they do. I still like helping people in general so that hasn't changed. Now the pay. That has really changed. Because of society and new laws coming in, the pay of doctors has decreased greatly. Some of the new health laws has made it so that dostors do not get paid as much for a visit or just in general. As it was pediatricians didn't get paid a gerat amount. They were better off than most, but not completely rich. Now their pay is significantly lower than before. The whole distance idea is out as well. My sister no longer goes there and I found out that it would be way more expensive to attend UNR than UNLV. If I stay here then I know where everything is, I can live at home if I want (which I wont). Having the option is good. The classes are less difficult here and my new desired career moved down here. The snow I heard is horrible. People get snowed in and driving on it is horrible. Even worse I don't have a car so I would walk in it. All around UNLV is sounding better and better. I would be able to visit my family whenever and I wouldn't be far away from my family in California.

Even though I no longer desire to be a doctor, I still feel that taking Anatomy and Physiology was the best choice for me. I am usually horrible at science (which was another reason I decided a doctor was not the career for me), but this class has shown me science in a whole new way. This class allows us to learn as we do things such as projects and labs. I am one of those people that do not learn by cramming for a test. When I do that I do alright on the test, but I forget the information right away. By being able to learn and discover things by myself as well as being taught I feel that I am going through a grand experience. Even though i'm not going to be a doctor I still feel that everyone should know about their body, how it works, whats on it, and whats inside it.

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