Week One Assignments

Hmmmm, my bio. Ok.



I am 47 years old, single mother to a 24 year old son - Jason. I spent most of his childhood and adolescence going to night school and taking community college courses as much as was possible - did some prerequisites to get into nursing school, and then ended up in a trade school to get certified as a medical assistant instead...long story.



After graduation I worked mostly in an administrative capacity for over a decade - did 5 years or so at UCSF, and ended up finally as an office manager in a local hospice. During my last year in the western medical profession, I enrolled in and compelted an accelerated BA program at New College, and graduated in 2006 with my BA in Humanities, with an emphasis on Activism and Social Change.



The job at hospice ended up being a complete nightmare, and once I left there I began to consider returning to school. At the same time, I began to have some serious health problems that western medicine was unable to help me with. I was referred to ACTCM and their community clinic, and one of the interns there encouraged me to consider their program....again, long story sort of short - here I am. :)

Chemistry Quiz Results:

1) I knew that burning wood and crushing a rock were physical changes; I also knew that rusting iron was a chemical change; I was wrong about dissolving sugar in water being a chemical change....

2) I didn't know about milk, or salt, or sugar - :(
I did, however, know that steel was a mixture.

3) I totally guessed that coffee was homogenous and impure....tee hee

4) I was wrong about the boiling of water being a chemical/chemical change.....