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Imagine what it would be like if this was all you saw during a visit to Sherman College of Chiropractic. For one student, this is all she can see. Marcia, from Michigan, decided to fly down to visit Sherman this past week. She is a non-traditional, blind student interested in the health sciences and redefining expectations.
Marcia had always had the dream of being a doctor, but her blindness due to a childhood cancer had stifled her dreams. She was encouraged to do social work as a career since it was more socially acceptable when she attended college for the first time. She went through undergraduate and graduate school only to find out she doesn’t enjoy social work.
For the past two years, she has been working on her prerequisite classes to apply for a career in the health sciences. This was around the time I met her. We had a semester of statistics class as well as a year of physics together. During our studies together, we had an opportunity to learn from each other a lot of life lessons. For more on her how we met and Marcia’s story, read the article written by Calvin College.
Now that she has her sights set the application process, I pointed her in the possible direction of chiropractic care in addition to her interest in osteopathic school.
During her visit to Sherman College, she sat in on an Anatomy and Neuroanatomy lecture. Despite her disability, she enjoyed the classes very much. She actually loved Neuroanatomy which is ironic since it is one of the harder classes offered in the basic sciences curriculum. I think it is great that she has so many opportunities today that she lacked earlier in her life. I know from spending time with her that no one else is more motivated to succeed in the realm of academics despite having some difficulties in the formatting of information.
She and I also had some good times outside of the classroom. These sorts of events make the education process worthwhile. In 20 years, I might forget a lot of the muscle attachments or psychological symptoms/diagnoses, but I will always remember the time spent with both friends from home and those that I have met at Sherman College of Chiropractic.
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