Who I Am

Well, my name is Wilette Hibbler and I am a new student at Mercy College- I just completed my first semester there. It was always my dream to attend Mercy College to obtain my bachelors degree in Clinical Laboratory Science. Before Mercy college I completed two years at ASA College where I obtained my Associates degree in Medical Assisting. Although there have been a lot of bumps in my college career path I was offered the prestige opportunity to be apart of the Honors program at Mercy College. For my honors course I chose to pick up Environmental Science but what I didn't know was that I was going to have such an outstanding professor by the name of Dr. T.H. Culhane. My first day meeting Prof. Culhane I found that he was an emerging national geographic explorer, so already I knew that I was going to acquire a great deal of knowledge from being in his class. When you hear Environmental Science the first thing that probably comes to your head is the science of the environment, but in a 3 hour class with Dr. Culhane I found my self learning everything from religion to how the educational system has stolen our creativity as free thinkers to actual environmental Science. In this course we were encouraged to think freely and to learn in a way that many of us are not so use to. Being in that class I felt like I was being educated and not just taught. In High School I feel like I was striped of my creativity because we were being taught to learn the way the system wanted us to learn, and I feel like this is a large reason why many things did not stick with me. They expect everyone to learn the same way when not everyone is the same. So now when I was encouraged and given the opportunity to to do things in a way I feel better suites me- I was stuck. I didn't blame myself because for so many years the wrong way was right, so you forget how to think freely, you forget that learning can be fun. So, what I am trying to say is that Dr. Culhane has made me a believer again. I left his class feeling more well rounded and confident than I have felt in years. 

Left to Right: (Prof. Culhane, Derrick, Wilette(me), Mitzy, Sonu, and Vinnesha)
In this picture Prof. Culhane is showing us how to save Biogas in an inner-tube, and we also had potatoes that was cooked using Biogas.. mmm good!