This is Public Health

This is Public Health, Cohort 3

A very very long story short .I decided to change my major as a 2nd semester junior. I completed my first semester of nursing school and something didn't feel right. As many nursing majors hear, “If you don't love and breathe nursing school it isn’t for you.” Well, I didn’t. It wasn't for me but little did I know I made the best decision of my life. Today I am a Public Health Major with an Admin concentration and a double minor in Emergency Disaster Response and Health Sciences and I couldn’t be more excited and in love with my major. Here’s why EVERYONE should consider being a Public Health major.

THE PRISON EXPERIENCE
The biggest joke in my friend group is we go to school in a prison. Well, we do. We drive 30 minutes to BFE Gray, Tennessee to a gated off prison like building we call home. Yeah, I’d venture out to call it home. Our cohort is split up into classes and we relive the high-school glory days of switching classes, talking in the hall, and eating in a cafeteria(Yup… a cafeteria). This is probably the best part of Public Health at ETSU. We have a campus just for us to learn. We get special learning experiences that students in other majors will never get. The prison experience is a 1 in a million experience.

THE COHORT
Incase you don’t understand what a cohort is, it’s a group of use that take the same classes and do the same things all throughout our 2.5 years in the program. This is something that other majors do offer but it's not quite like Public Health. This group is my rock, especially my friend group. I live and breathe Public Health but I have a crew of 40 cohort members including 3 amazing best-friends I am thankful for. With everything I am struggling with in life I can count on them to get me busy and to bring laughter to everything inside and outside the classroom. Not only to they bring joy they hold me responsible. I am so thankful for my cohort and my friend group within it.

ESSENTIALS, THE TUESDAY -THURSDAY NIGHTMARE
If you are friends with me on snapchat you might notice every Tuesday and Thursday I am in some crazy class building libraries, sawing wood, painting, and gardening. Well, it’s my essentials class. We are the only major that gets the benefits of this class. We are learning life skills that not many adults our age will have since technology runs our lives. We are learning how to survive without and reuse resources. This really teaches someone to realize how much we have, and how much we should be thankful for.

Lastly, this major is so diverse and is much needed all over the world. Just take some times and look into it, you’ll be surprised.