By: Celeste Gonzalez

Pltw (Project lead the way) in 8th grade is helping us choose our pathways. Here at ARS we take a pathway course. That means we will take a class based on Biomed, Engineering or Media Tech. In PLTW we are doing Modules. A module is a series of challenges based on Biomed, Engineering, or Media Tech while still being in relation to PLTW. Biomed is the study of natural sciences. Its basically, studying to be a doctor. Engineering pretty much explains itself, its the creation of something. Media Tech is working on computer, cartoons, designs, all having to do with the creation online.

I am going to be honest, computers and I have a complicated relationship, but I still love to surf the web. I don’t understand them and I don’t think I would have the patience to learn. I am very bad at math and Engineering has a lot of math and measuring involved, so I really don’t know about engineering. In Biomed you look at blood and integrons and sometimes I twitch at that.

 

These pathways have their pros and cons I have interviewed two of my sisters about their pathways (not really sisters, but upper class girls. At ARS we call each other sisters because we are family to each other). Jennifer, a student in Engineering, said, “You need to have a lot of patience and also be willing to learn from you mistakes.” So, Engineering involves a lot of time to think, plan, and solve which is quite troubling for me. My other sister is in Biomed and she said, “Biomed is something you would really use in life. Biomed helps you in everyday, whats hard about biomed is retaining all that information.” The thing with Biomed is that knowing, and perfecting is important, like really important because someones life could be depending on your skills and knowledge. I am really bad at putting attention to details, so that would be a skill I would need to learn. Now, I haven’t interviewed one of my sisters from MediaTech, but I have a ‘sister’ (ARS sister) Lizeth, and she is in Media Tech, and she says what is hard is getting use to knowing the software and all the parts of the computer. I am terrible at computers and pretty much anything related. I do not understand it, I just don’t.

 

These three pathways are hard, but luckily we have amazing teachers to show us the way, that’s why I haven’t eliminated any of the three from my choices because as an Ann Richards girl I will persevere and be determined to what I do. So honestly I could be good at any pathway if I work really hard. And that is what the Ann Richards girl is all about and anyways, at least I have the rest of the school year to choose.