Day #2 of Student Life

Day #2 as a college student was quite boring actually....  as it was spent doing mother duties rather than student activities.  First and foremost on the agenda was to get Tori enrolled at Prairie Point 9th Grade Academy.  We made it to south Cedar Rapids in spite of the blizzard, and Tori took her placement exams and she was able to get her course schedule in place.

While Tori was placement testing, Liz (my daughter and fellow college student ) and I went to the University Book store and purchased our books!  Liz bought Biology and so forth, and I purchased my book for one of my other courses "The US Health care System", which is an overview, soup to nuts, of our healthcare system. This course is one of the first courses of the College of Public Health at Iowa that covers the basic structure and operations of our US Health care System, just like the course title says.

I am also taking a SAS course, which is a statistical package used for data analysis, but was unable to ascertain if a book was available for this class or not, as the instructor had not yet posted anything on ICON, ICON stands for Iowa's Course Online system for students, and is the portal for professor/student communications at Iowa.

I meet with my advisor on Wednesday morning, as it appears I'm charting new territories with 'Health Management Analytics' as a major at Iowa, and I need to understand the prerequisites for a course I'd really like to take which is "Health Insurance and Managed Care".  And, I could not find any courses with the topic of 'marketing' for health care in the college of Public Health, as marketing is offered by the Tippie College of Business; (and I already have a master's degree in business.....) so we need to chat about that too.