High school grads optimistic about future
Andrea Klassen and Alex McCuaig Medicine Hat News
After 12 years of lockers, lunch rooms, multiple-choice tests and after-school sports, upcoming graduates from Medicine Hat and Brooks say they’re looking forward to life after high school, even if they are a little nervous about it.
“It's a huge leap from here,” says Sarah Henschke, a senior at Eagle Butte High School. “You have so many different pathways you can choose. You're on your own, basically."
Henschke says she’s planning to start work on a Bachelor of Science at Medicine Hat College next fall and wants to eventually transfer to the University of Calgary, where she also hopes to go to medical school.
“I got to go to Haiti two years ago and we got to build a school, interact with the kids,” she explains. “I'd love to be able to go back and maybe have some skills as a doctor, and really be able to help people."
Calgary’s medical school is also a long-term goal for McCoy High School student Megan Grimm.
“I took Bio 30 last year, I learned so much about everything...” she says. “The research and the facts we got, it was so interesting to know more about the human body."
At Medicine Hat High, Keirsten Hickey is already working on her post- secondary education. As an apprentice mechanic, she gets class credit for working part-time at Sun Valley Honda. Once she’s graduated, she says she’ll continue with her certification by putting in more hours of work and taking classes at the college.
While Hickey says she’s been looking forward to graduation since she “was old enough to know what ‘graduation’ meant,” apprenticing has made her appreciate what high school has to offer.
"Working in an environment with people who are all older than me and seeing what it's like to have a real career, you see the difference,” she says. “You realize high school is kind of fun.”
Crescent Heights High senior Elizabeth Strange says she’s also a little nervous about her future, but it hasn’t stopped her from making some big plans.
Strange applied to three universities - Simon Fraser, St. Thomas and the University of Ottawa - and plans to get a degree in women’s studies and sociology. After that, she wants to go to law school, get a Master’s degree in international law, and eventually become a women’s rights lawyer for the United Nations.
“I originally wanted to be the Prime Minister or something like that,” she says. “Then I decided I could do more and help people around the world.”
All four students have done something to gain experience in their chosen field. Grimm and Henschke have both done work at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, while Strange volunteers at a local women’s shelter.
So far, they say they like what they’ve seen.
“I really liked that it was something different every day for the doctors,” says Henschke. “It wasn't the same monotonous thing, but you're still getting to interact with people, help people."
"I like working with my hands,” Hickey says of her apprenticeship. “I'd rather be doing that than working with math equations and stuff like that all the time.”
Jordon Bain, a senior at Brooks Composite High School, will be leaving his small city behind this fall when he heads to the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
“I want to study science and then maybe dentistry,” says the 17-year-old.
And like his four fellow graduates in Medicine Hat, there is one thing Bain says he’ll miss about high school.
“I’ve spent my three years of high school here and my whole life in Brooks,” says Bain. “One of the best things for me has been the opportunity to go to school with the same bunch of kids you’ve known your whole life.”
Adds Henschke of her fellow Eagle Butte graduates, “Next year I don't know how much I'll see some of these people. So I'll miss that part of it, definitely."
NEWS PHOTO IAN SORENSEN
Crescent Heights High
School senior Elizabeth Strange plans to go to law school, get a Master’s degree in international law, and eventually
become a women’s rights lawyer for the United Nations.
NEWS PHOTO IAN SORENSEN
Sarah Henschke will be graduating from Eagle Butte High School this spring. Henschke plans to begin her post-secondary education at the
Medicine Hat College and eventually transfer to the University of Calgary to attend medical school.
NEWS PHOTO ALEX MCCUAIG
Brooks Composite High
School graduate 17-year- old Jordan Bain will soon to be leaving the city he has called home for his entire life to head to
Edmonton's University of Alberta where he plans on studying science and perhaps dentistry.
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