so what's your excuse? radiology isn't for everybody, but everybody has the posibility of becoming a great tech. some people need more attention than others, and sometimes, it just doesn't work out. personally, i think that anybody who has an interest in it should go foward and just look to see if they like it or not. "but i hate math"math
basic math skills. can you multiply? can you divide? add and subtract? basically, that's all the math you really need to succede in radiology. some people think that it's a very technical and precice field, and that they'd not be any good in it because "i hated math in high school".
the hardest formula you'll use will be mAs = mA x s. if you can get around that, you'll do just fine. "man, this stuff is boring..."we get through it together. all carreer based programs have their boring stuff to them. i started to go for a computer science degree when i first started college. now that stuff is boring. you just got to get yourself over the fact that this is a lot of knowledge that they have to cram into your brain. once you start your clinical sites, you'll find yourself going "so this is what they were talking about!". when the light bulb over your head comes on, it's really worth the effort. | "it takes too long..."ok, yeah, it's a 2 year program. 2 years. if you go to a community college, they give you an associates degree. i knew someone in high school who gave me a hard time about going to a community college. yeah, i grew up in one of those "wealthy" parts of town, where mommy and daddy buy you a mustang for your 16th birthday. i was not one of them. my choice was either community college, scholerships (with my grades? yeah.. right..), or military. to me, military wasn't that great of an option. the community college i attended gave me an associates degree, and since i put my heart into my clinical sites, i was hired by my first site. looking back 10 years ago when i started the program, i never could have imagined that i could get this far by going to community college. 2 years of school for the 10 years of memories that i have and the thousands of people i've helped? yeah, it's worth it. "i really don't like science"heck, neither did i. the only science i liked in high school was chemestry. the only reason i liked that class was because the teacher let us blow stuff up. ..... thermite...... boy that was fun..... anyway. in the day to day processes of being a radiology technologist, you really don't think about the science portion of it all that much. the majority of the science nature of radiology comes in the classroom where you learn about the different types of radiation, and what they do to the cells of the body. stuff that you need to know, but doesn't come up during the workday all the time. |
how do i know if i'm cut out for radiology?
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