Hi Guys!

While I am waiting for my last grade to post I thought I would give everyone an update on future plans.  I am taking the GRE this July (wish me luck) and I have to get a minimum of 1000 on it.  I am also taking two online classes this summer and will hopefully be moving into a house getting out of my moblie home on campus.  If that wasn't enough I am having to make some tough choices where I want to apply to GRAD school!  I have to start applying in October at the latest so I can make sure all of my required materials are "in" by the deadline not to mention giving my instructors plenty of time to write recommendations for grad school.  Currently there are 72 ASHA accredited colleges nation wide that offer the Au.D (doctorate in Audiology).  Here is a small list of the ones I am looking at!

1. Vanderbilt (Nashville, TN) ranked 1st in the nation

2.  University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) ranked 2nd in the nation

3. University of Washington (Seattle, WA) ranked 3rd in the nation

4.Utah State University where I am currently enrolled for my undergraduate degree in communicative disorders and deaf education

5.  University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO)

6.  Texas Tech University (Lubbock, TX)

7.  LSU Health Science Center  (New Orleans, LA)

8. University of Oklahoma Health Science Center (Oklahoma City, OK)

Each of these programs have the cochlear implant programs built in and these are places I wouldn't mind living for the next 4 years or so once I am finished with my undergrad degree.

So you think you FLUNKED your exams????!!!!!

These are actual answers from test papers and essays submitted to science and health teachers by junior high, high school, and college students around the world!!!

"When you breath, you inspire.  When you do not breath, you expire."

"H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold water"

"To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube"

"When you smell an oderless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide"

"Nitrogen is not found in Ireland because it is not found in a free state."

"Whater is composed of two gins, Oxygin and Hydrogin.  Oxygin is pure gin.  Hygrogin is gin and water"

"Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars"

"Blood flows down one leg and up the other"

"The moon is a planet just like the earth, only it is even deader"

"Mushrooms always grow in damp places and so they look like umbrellas."

"The body consists of three parts: the branium, the borax and the abominable cavity.  The brainium contains the brain, the borax contains the heart and lungs, and the abominable cavity contains the bowls, of which there are five: a, e, i, o, u."

"The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects."

"Many women believe that an alcoholic binge will have no ill effects on the unborn fetus, that that is a large misconception."

"Germinate: to become a naturalized German."

"Magnet: something you find crawling all over a dead cat."

"Vacuum: a large empty space where the Pope lives"

"To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose."

"For a nosebleed: put the nose much lower than the body until the heart stops"

"For drowning: climb on top of the person and move up and down to make artificial perspiration"

"For fainting: rub the person's chest or put the head between the knees of the nearest medical doctor"

"For dog bite: put the dog away for several days.  If he has not recovered then kill it."

"For asphyxiation: apply artificial respiration until the patient is dead."

"For head cold: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it drops in your throat"

"To keep milk from turning sour: Keep it in the cow"

"There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered.  Finding them all means living forever."

"Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil."

"Vacuums are nothings.  We only mention them to let them know we know they are there."

"Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother."

"We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation.  Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on"

"To most people solutions mean finding the answers but to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up"

"In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's."

"Clouds are high flying fogs"

"I am not sure how clouds get formed but the clouds know how to do it and that is the important thing."

"Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around and around.  There is not much else to do."

"Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man"

"A blizzard is when it snows sideways."

"A monsoon is a French gentleman"

"Thunder is a rich source of loudness"

"Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound."

"It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places"

"Wind is like the air, only pushier"

HAHAHAHA...  It was a cheesy laugh I admit but at least it was one!

HUGS!!!!

Courtney