My name is Joel Hircheck and I'm going to school online to Regent University School of Undergraduate Studies. My major is Professional Communication with a minor in Organizational Leadership. I work at Safe Harbor Animal Shelter and Hospital. And I've been a veterinary technician and surgery technician for about three years or so now. And we do a lot of pit bull rescue and rehabilitation of animals, along with being a full hospital too, so it's a pretty neat job. I usually like to try and go work out in the morning. Usually get to work early in the morning... "Safe Harbor, this is Joel." What I have to do is get all the clients who are bringing their dogs in for surgery, get them all checked in. Tell our surgeon what we're doing for the day. Then we go ahead and get started with surgery. And basically work all the way through until the end of the day when I send the animals home and give the clients their instructions. I usually head home, eat some dinner and then spend some time with my roommates, my girlfriend if she's got off work or if she's not in class herself. And just enjoy my time at home and then go to bed and get ready to start the next day. I really had no plan to go back to school. I was thinking my opportunity to go to school was done' cause now I have to work full-time and I have so many other activities that I need to be a part of. Then I thought about online school and read about the program at Regent it got me really excited. I had been always thinking that "Man I really need to finish my four year degree." One of the great things about going to class online is that my school and my class is anywhere I want it to be. My classroom is sitting in a coffee shop. My classroom is at work on my lunch break. My class is wherever. Going to classes online is really cool because I can set my schedule according to whatever I need to do at whatever time, and then fit school in along side it yet still make it a primary purpose in my life. With going online I'm still able to hold a full-time job, which I need right now. I have to be able to have a full-time job to support myself. My whole focus is school but it still gives me the flexibility to be able to pursue other things and be active in other things and do the things I really want to do without having school dominate my life. The flexibility is definitely a big plus. In my time going to Regent online, it's been really a great experience. I can tell when I'm going to class that I'm going to be challenged. When the professors say something will be one way, that's the way it is. The main thing is the quality of education. Because that's the whole point is to get a good education and actually learn something and to be able to be set up for success in the future for whatever God may have for you. I would be very quick to recommend Regent University to one of my friends or anybody that was trying to decide what they were going do for college. And I wouldn't hesitate for a second to strongly encourage someone else to go there. The primary reason is the education you receive.
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