juststartingnow

i currently atten Gary job corps in San Marcos Tx. it is not as bad as some people make it seem, you just have to be determined to get through it. my trade is cna, no it is not self paced anymore, they only allow you to test once a week unless you have permission from your plc coordinator to test more, and i do, so instead of 10 weeks i have been in cna for 23 day and will be done before my 30 day mark. after general course study i will have skills and clinicals for three weeks and then certify. i am applying to the lvn program at the Casadega job corps in New York but it is not the only one. All job Corps don't have them but i know for sure Hawaii, Virgina and Pensylvania does offer Lvn as an advanced trade. you have to be Cna certified to even send the application in. You have to have gotten a trade at a previous job corps and you have to be transferring from a job corps. Class is easy and i have a great Cna instructor. this is my second trade at Job corps and ive only been here 4 months. my first trade was self paced and it was MAIC. Cna trade is no longer self paced becaus eits really easy to complete and most students get done before they can actually graduate seeing as how you have to be here for a certain amount of days. dorm life is livable. im the manager at my dorm and i have been just a student, so i understand both sides of the spectrum. they do have roll calls in the morning, afternoon and night. we do have curfew 8:00pm on mondays, 9:30 on tue-thur, and 11:00 friday and saturday, its also 9:30 on sundays. they expect you to clean, and clean good. we buff our floors everyweek and clean up everynight and morning even if its not messed up. but you get out of it what you put into it. there is also a lot of recreational things to do on campus. our campus has a gym, pool hall, game room, art room, music room, and movie theatre.we also do stand up comedy and poetry in our Panther den(which is a cafe like store) i dont take advantage of any of it but most students actually enjoy it. i stay in the dorm to ensure that my girls and i are in a safe and clean environment. STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. they will terminate you, if u fail two drug test you will go home(the first one they put you in TEAP which is a drug rehabilitation program). if you have too many negatives you will go home. if u are on the cdo report often you will go home. i can say they are strict but its for a reason. this is a great program and some students don't deserve to be here, so yeah they weave out the bad. true... i want to go home sometimes but i know this is a change for me and something i will have to adapt to in order to get what i want out of life. know why you came or why you are going, set goals for yourself and don't stop until you succeed. if you are a good student like me, you can get far...even get an on campus job that actually pays you to work.