[carson-berry]

Hello, everyone!  I am a Junior at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC majoring in Marine Science with a concentration in physical oceanography, and I am also minoring in German.  If all goes smoothly, I plan on graduating in May 2019! After that I will either end up looking for work or put myself in more debt and go to graduate school with the hopes of making more money with a graduate degree.

 

I lived on campus my freshman and part of sophomore years and had a caregiver agency help me out in the mornings and evenings, which was an experience within itself and eventually led to me moving back home to be a commuter.  Currently, my mother is paid by the state to be my assistant and she follows me to class and all that good stuff.  If anyone has any questions about transitioning to college life with SMA, especially about going into the sciences with such a physically limiting condition, I’m all ears–or eyes in this case.

 

With my graduation upcoming, I would be interested in hearing from others who have graduated about how they transitioned to the workforce, as I know there are many obstacles and things to consider when it comes to insurance, social security, etc., or even transitioning to grad school if anyone has done that.