Although I probably should have by now, I have yet to begin the application process. I am relatively concerned regarding the diversity of my extracirricular activities considering that I do not have too many outside of the fire/EMS world since most of my time is consumed by that. Here is a quick run down of my extracirriculars. Please tell me if you think I need to add more diverisity. Thank you.
EMT: 5 years and counting. Have done everything from volunteering in my hometown to working a paid service in a large city seeing gunshots, stabbings, overdoses on a regular basis. I work ~40 hours a week while finishing undergraduate degree. Hopefully by time of application, I will have finished paramedic school.
EMS Task Force: volunteer with a state EMS Task Force working with physicians, nurses, paramedics, EMTs to establish continuity of care during a large disaster. There are alot of drills and such.
Fire Dept.: I volunteer with a local fire department responding to many different types of calls from smoke alarm activations to auto extrications to structure fires. I have completed Firefighter 1 and Firefighter 2 courses plus many other fire related courses. All told, I probably have 500 hours worth of training under my belt.
The top three activities along with my undergraduate work takes up ALOT of my time. Therefore, I only have had time to do the following school related activites:
Tau Beta Pi: national engineering honor society...haven't really done much with other than get the certificate.
My school's biomedical engineering honor society: same description as above
My school's biomedical engineering society: served as student senate representative for ~3 semesters
Volunteered in a lab at a local medical school for the summer (last summer).
So thats pretty much my life in a nutshell. Does anyone think that my extracirricular activities are too fire/EMS focused? If so, what would you suggest I go about doing to change. Thank you.
EMT: 5 years and counting. Have done everything from volunteering in my hometown to working a paid service in a large city seeing gunshots, stabbings, overdoses on a regular basis. I work ~40 hours a week while finishing undergraduate degree. Hopefully by time of application, I will have finished paramedic school.
EMS Task Force: volunteer with a state EMS Task Force working with physicians, nurses, paramedics, EMTs to establish continuity of care during a large disaster. There are alot of drills and such.
Fire Dept.: I volunteer with a local fire department responding to many different types of calls from smoke alarm activations to auto extrications to structure fires. I have completed Firefighter 1 and Firefighter 2 courses plus many other fire related courses. All told, I probably have 500 hours worth of training under my belt.
The top three activities along with my undergraduate work takes up ALOT of my time. Therefore, I only have had time to do the following school related activites:
Tau Beta Pi: national engineering honor society...haven't really done much with other than get the certificate.
My school's biomedical engineering honor society: same description as above
My school's biomedical engineering society: served as student senate representative for ~3 semesters
Volunteered in a lab at a local medical school for the summer (last summer).
So thats pretty much my life in a nutshell. Does anyone think that my extracirricular activities are too fire/EMS focused? If so, what would you suggest I go about doing to change. Thank you.
