Brenda Thompson: Recipient of the Bronze Scholarship

 

          Brenda Thompson thought it was great to receive a scholarship to help pay for tuition and other expenses.  She said, "Receiving this scholarship has helped me a great deal.  Being a college student, working 40hrs a week for clinical time and taking night classes doesn't leave much time for a job.  Although I have recently started working as a temporary technologist at Clarkson Hospital it is hard to find enough hours in a day to work (for money).  All my weekends and week days are packed full of studying, homework, and clinical time."

          She is happy with her experience at Clarkson College. "I enjoy the atmosphere on the campus. All the teachers are great and eager to teach and help the students when needed. It is especially helpful since I live at the Clarkson dorms. It reduces travel time that I don't have," she stated.

          She chose Clarkson so she wouldn't have to move away from family and friends and it was everything that she had been searching for in a program. She always knew that she wanted to be in the medical field and chose the RT/MI program. "My mother is a lab technician and she helped me learn about all the different opportunities in the medical field.  I decided upon radiological technologist because of the wide variety of possibilities with this field," she said.