18-year-old to graduate in May with associate degree
伊莉斯克鲁斯, an exceptional 18-year-old from Tecumseh, is wrapping up her time at the JC / LISD学院这是一段始于中学的旅程.
“The more I learned about it, the more I felt like this was the right experience for me,”她说。.
She immediately appreciated the small class sizes 和 dedicated professors.
“我在这里找到了一些我最喜欢的老师. I formed some pretty good connections with a lot of them so that has been a wonderful thing,”她说。. “The sort of curriculum that I feel focuses on the success of the student, rather than trying to make it as hard as possible. 他们真的很关心你的学习.”
这次经历给伊莉斯留下了不可磨灭的印记. Although there were disruptions caused by COVID-19 p和emic she credits the academy for fostering her growth in unexpected ways.
“They try to establish team building 和 personal growth like soft skills, basically your ability to interact with other people,”她说。. “考虑到当时的预防措施, it was definitely delayed for me being at home but I eventually came back 和 I was able to grow a lot which I thought was never going to happen because I’m such a shy 和 introverted person.”
但是，你不能从她的志愿者努力中看出. 志愿服务是她生活中不可或缺的一部分. 她担任学生大使, 年鉴俱乐部的主席, Phi Theta Kappa荣誉协会的成员, recipient of the TRADES award for exceptional work habits, 团队合作与责任, 一个是化学导师，一个是学生雇员 全球网络赌博平台@ LISD 在TECH校园担任办公室助理.
“That has been a really good opportunity for me to grow because I really didn’t have many people skills,克鲁斯说. “尤其是在打电话的时候. In this generation where everybody texts, I never really had to do that. While it was nerve-wracking at first, that has helped me a lot.”
She has dedicated more than 100 hours of community service participating in a beautification project between the JC @ LISD Tech building 和 the Tech center, 清理当地公园的垃圾, participated in various food drives along with volunteering at Child Life at the 托莱多儿童医院 和 克利夫兰儿童医院 还有一个猫窝.
“我真的很喜欢帮助别人，”克鲁斯说. “It’s one of the things that I’m most passionate about. 例如, at the cat shelter being able to see people who are getting to adopt a new cat how happy they are. A few people have hugged me because they were so excited 和 it fills my heart with joy.”
Elise is set to graduate in May with an associate degree in science aspiring to launch a career in the medical field. 一个她从小就有的梦想.
“I can remember wanting to be a doctor,”她说。.
她早期的经历, including being born prematurely 和 spending time in the NICU, as well as witnessing a schoolmate battle cancer in the first grade fueled her determination to enter the medical field.
She plans on going to a four-year university 和 majoring in either chemistry or neuroscience. Elise hopes to pursue a pre-med curriculum 和 go to medical school. She completed the Health Care Career program at the LISD技术中心 她在哪里学到了基本的医学术语, 如何测量生命体征, became CPR 和 Basic First 援助 certified 和 completed three different clinical rotations at an Adrian-area hospital.
“I have a lot of things I want to accomplish,”她说。. “I just want to become the most successful version of myself that I can 和 make a positive change in the world somehow.”
For any middle- or high-schooler considering joining the academy, 伊莉斯鼓励他们迈出这一步.
“If there’s anybody out there who feels they really need more independence, who wants a little bit more of an academic challenge I would strongly just taking a look here because it was really wonderful,”她说。.
Jc @ lisd tech位于1372 N. 阿德里安的大街.