Scholarship
After three years at Longwood and two years as a kinesiology major, I find myself asking “where has all the time gone?” I mean that in more ways than one. Of course, there is the cliché sentiment of “Junior year is the hardest!” which I have found to be true – I’ve been left with very little free time. Perhaps more significantly however, is the sheer speed with which my time here at Longwood seems to be rushing by.
Two years in, I am still satisfied with my decision to change majors from photography to kinesiology. It better suits my interests, gives me a much clearer path towards graduate school & a career, and I simply feel more prepared to face the world (although this last item is likely somewhat a symptom of normal growth). I have become the only student-tutor in the entire department, I have been unofficially offered a TA position for next spring by one of my professors, and I am staying on campus for the summer to work on repeated-sprint-fatigue research as part of the PRISM program. In addition, I am completing my virtual study abroad as a hospital intern in India, helping to prescribe exercise treatment for patients with fibromyalgia.
The classes that I have completed at Longwood and their corresponding grades are:
- ART 120: Foundations of Two-Dimensional Design – A
- ART 130: Drawing 1 – A
- ART 131: Life Drawing – A
- ART 155: Basic Principles and Processes of Photography (Honors) – A
- ART 223: Three-Dimensional Design – A
- ART 254: Color Photography (Honors enhancement) – A
- ART 261: History of Western Art – Ancient to Renaissance – B
- ART 262: History of Western Art – Rennaisance to Modern – B+
- BIOL 206: Human A&P I – A
- BIOL 207: Human A&P II – A
- CHEM 111: Fundamentals of Chemistry I – A
- CTZN 110: Bodies and Citizens (Honors) – A
- ENGL 215: Frontier Adventures – A-
- KINS 205: Intro to Kinesiology – A
- KINS 210: Intro to Health Professions – A-
- KINS 215: Exercise is Medicine – A
- KINS 218: Motor Learning and Control – A
- KINS 276: Nutrition – A
- KINS 316: Essentials of Strength Conditioning – A
- KINS 370: Health Fitness Management – A-
- KINS 386: Biomechanics – A-
- KINS 387: Physiology of Exercise – A
- KINS 404: Principles of Coaching – A
- KINS 486: Exercise Testing & Prescription – A
- KINS 490: PRISM Kinesiology Research – A
- Phys 120: General Physics I – B-
- RELI 342: Religion and Literature – A-
- SPAN 110: Beginning Lang & Cult – B+
- SPAN 210: Beginning Integrated Lang & Cult – B
- THEA 101: Issues in Theatre – A-
My cumulative GPA at the end of my Junior year is 3.774.