EMT Class

[medichopeful]

Sorry to make a new thread for this, but I just wanted to share.

Once I get a signature tomorrow from the instructor, I will officially be enrolled in EMT-B class. I had been auditing it for now, but I decided I wanted to actually do it and get college credit for it.

In addition to that, I will also be taking psychology (honors), sociology, biology, and English (honors) this semester, so I'll be fairly busy. But I enjoy most of those subjects, so it could be worse!

I'll change my training field when I am officially enrolled.

 

[spisco85]

Congrats. I always liked psychology and it taught me a lot.

When I took sociology in High School we had an excellent teacher that was neutral on views so you could develop your own. When I took it in college the professor was very one sided and preferred to lecture instead of actually engaging the class.

I hope you get some awesome teachers.

 

[Seaglass]

Congrats! You'll be busy, but it's doable. I did my EMT-B while taking the maximum number of credits allowed and working part-time. I found that good organization and taking care of my health were all that really let me succeed. Not having any sort of social life really helped, too...

I hope you get some awesome teachers.

Same here. If I hadn't taken upper-division courses before intro psych, and known there would be better courses later on, I'm pretty sure I would've dropped the major. Brilliant researchers can make for some horrible teachers, especially when they resent teaching beginners.

 

[bunkie]

Have fun! You get kudos from me. No way I could handle that work load along side my EMT class.

 

[Cory]

So are you taking the course at your high school? (you're in high school, right? :unsure

I was always told that if I wanted to take the course now, then I would have to transfer to a trade school.

 

[medichopeful]

Congrats. I always liked psychology and it taught me a lot.

When I took sociology in High School we had an excellent teacher that was neutral on views so you could develop your own. When I took it in college the professor was very one sided and preferred to lecture instead of actually engaging the class.

I hope you get some awesome teachers.

I have actually started classes. All of the teachers are pretty good B)

 

[medichopeful]

So are you taking the course at your high school? (you're in high school, right? :unsure

I was always told that if I wanted to take the course now, then I would have to transfer to a trade school.

Nope, I'm actually in college. They are offering the course there. It will give me 4 credits.

I don't know if you would have to transfer, but there may be a work around.

 

[EMS_Junkie]

I was in my senior year of high school with 6 classes a day and decided to take an EMT-B course. It was fun but boy was it tough! Good luck!!!

 

[Lifeguards For Life]

you/re getting 4 credits for you're emt? i took my EMT class via dual enrollment at the local community college while I was a senior in high school. we went to class for two hours a day for two full semesters. We also got to leave high school for those two periods. I got 11 college credits, as well as EMT counting for two advanced placement classes on my high school gpa and transcript. I think the credits were split 4 didactic, 3 lab, and 4 clinical.

 

[Sasha]

Good luck with class, you will do great!

 

[medichopeful]

Good luck with class, you will do great!

Thanks!

Good luck with your testing!

 

[Sasha]

Thanks!

Good luck with your testing!

Gracias

 

[medichopeful]

you/re getting 4 credits for you're emt? i took my EMT class via dual enrollment at the local community college while I was a senior in high school. we went to class for two hours a day for two full semesters. We also got to leave high school for those two periods. I got 11 college credits, as well as EMT counting for two advanced placement classes on my high school gpa and transcript. I think the credits were split 4 didactic, 3 lab, and 4 clinical.

Holy crap, I wish I was getting as much credit as you did. My class meets 2 times a week for 3 hours each day for a full semester, and then there are also labs and clinicals.

 

[Lifeguards For Life]

your clinicals and labs should count for credits additional to you're lecture. good luck and let us know how it goes

 

[Thindian]

you/re getting 4 credits for you're emt? i took my EMT class via dual enrollment at the local community college while I was a senior in high school. we went to class for two hours a day for two full semesters. We also got to leave high school for those two periods. I got 11 college credits, as well as EMT counting for two advanced placement classes on my high school gpa and transcript. I think the credits were split 4 didactic, 3 lab, and 4 clinical.

That sounds like the jackpotiest of all jackpots. I didn't get any college credit for my EMT-B class, forget about AP credit. 11 weighted credits for doing something you WANT to do? Consider yourself luckier than leprechaun turds my friend.

 

[Cory]

I'm not directing this at you medichopeful, because obviouly you don't know yet (although I would be happy to hear your opinon) but wouldn't it be very overwhelming to do both? I mean, the University I'm looking at (well, sorta looking at) has an EMT-B class in the trade school dvision (technical college I think is the term) but I still think it would be overwhelming. Any input? People who have done it? [sorry to distract from OP, delete if you must]

 

[medichopeful]

I'm not directing this at you medichopeful, because obviouly you don't know yet (although I would be happy to hear your opinon) but wouldn't it be very overwhelming to do both? I mean, the University I'm looking at (well, sorta looking at) has an EMT-B class in the trade school dvision (technical college I think is the term) but I still think it would be overwhelming. Any input? People who have done it? [sorry to distract from OP, delete if you must]

I know it wasn't directed towards me specifically, but you can't stop me from answering!

I do feel a bit overwhelmed, but I'm interested in the subject, so it's not that bad. Plus, the workload at the college I am going to is not like that of Harvard or one of those schools. At least, it's not first semester...h34r:

 

[medichopeful]

It's official

Just got back from the registrar's office, and it's official. I am now an EMT-B student, not just an auditor ^_^

 

[Shishkabob]

What the crap is an EMT-B auditor?

 

[medichopeful]

What the crap is an EMT-B auditor?

Well, I was originally just going to sit in on the class this semester, and then take it next semester, but I decided to just take it this semester instead. The main concern was the workload, but it won't be too much of a problem.

So basically, I was just auditing the class until a few hours ago, which I was officially enrolled. The word "audit" comes from the Latin word "audire," which means "to listen".

I knew 3 years of Latin would come in handy!