I aspire to work in the field of healthcare and I have always been constantly reminded of that decision every day of my life by my peers or classmates.  I was reminded of the fact as a young woman struggling to be taken seriously by male classmates and I was reminded every time someone questioned my intelligence based on my “girly, fashionable” appearance. Many classmates never hesitated to label me as someone that wasn’t “serious” and “intelligent” based on superficial matters and this continual belief that a woman couldn’t be simultaneously interested in physiology and handbags was ingrained in the system. My lab partner for freshman year chemistry lab told me that he doubted that I would even pass the class. I got a higher score than he did and my future career is literally lab based. No matter how hard I worked, it seemed that no one would believe that I was capable of intelligent thought or success. To to this day, I still remember one of my coworkers giving me fully unsolicited criticism …

Blogging is something that is immensely personal, whether your subject matter is or not. Each and every blogger has their own approach to blogging. There are things that other bloggers do that some don’t. There are certain things that I do which other bloggers would never even think of doing. Some approaches that other bloggers do are things that I wouldn’t personally do. There’s no right or wrong way to do things. Each and every individual is going to have a unique take on things and their own process. Just because we all have similar blogging resources doesn’t mean we’ll do things the same way or utilize the same ones. So, I thought it would be interesting to do a post about things that other bloggers do that I don’t. This isn’t me trying to be presumptuous or condescending, this is just me sharing my input and views. I’m not saying that this is the right way but rather I am just saying that this is how I do things. You’re allowed to disagree with …