Madeline's Blog

     This week I started my sophomore year at NDSU. I felt a lot more comfortable being familiar with the campus compared to my freshman year. I am taking more complicated and challenging classes this year because it is my last year on campus. I am going to apply to the sonography program this fall and then I will hear back from the program in the winter. I am going to prioritize some of my classes this semester because I need to get good grades in the challenging classes to maybe set me apart from other students who are taking the same classes. Since the sonography program here at NDSU is very competitive, I need to make sure that I am focusing on my academics and spending more time on the challenging ones so I can get a good grade in them. I am a little more nervous this year about my academics this year compared to my freshman year because the classes I am taking now are more oriented towards my specific major.      Although I am feeling a little more stressed about my sophomore yea

     My name is Madeline, and I grew up in the small town of Ashby Minnesota. I am currently in my second year of college at NDSU, and my major is radiology. I chose to major in radiology because I want to work in the healthcare field, but I also do not want a super demanding job. I specifically want to specialize in sonography because I want to do imaging on pregnant women. I don't think that I would enjoy radiography as much as sonography because radiography is basically just taking the picture and then sending it off to be looked at by specialists. I want my job to be more hands on and involved which is also another reason why I chose to go the sonography route. The program at NDSU for sonography is very challenging and competitive because they only accept around 4-5 students each year for the internship. You also can only apply to the internship twice, so if you get denied twice, you have to pick another route to go. I am a very determined person, and I am going to do my best t