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i’m finishing my pre requisites right now, hoping i have a good shot of getting into the clinical portion of my school’s program. and ive been thinking about the future a lot lately. i live in NYC, and i’m married with a 5 year old. i keeo wondering what shift would be the best for me to still have adequate time with my child. Hes starting elementary school.

it feels like a 9-5 in a clinic might be the best choice sometimes because i would be home shortly after he is and i could possibly still drop him off in the morning. but then i think about how much of his school events i might miss, especially in the first year that i’m working because i know i won’t be able to take that much time off.

then i think maybe 3 12’s at a hospital, but theres the possibility i would be on call some days/nights (idk if u can opt out of this), and i would also miss family dinner and bedtime 3 nights a week.

then i think about overnight shifts at a hospital and still the possibility of being on call lingers, but i wouldnt miss any day time. but i would be exhausted, not sleeping at night and still having to be a mom during the day, only sleeping while hes at school.

tell me what has been the closest to perfect shift for you please? help me feel like i’m not making a choice that will hurt our bond. hes so used to me staying at home. ive been a stay at home mom since he was born.

I need the intro to rad text book 9th edition, and i know financial aid is supposed to be able to cover my books, so i dont wanna buy it if i dont have to. it’s also not on anna’s archive before anyone suggests that. i looked. but the city tech bookstore doesnt show the financial aid option. does anyone know how to do this? i haven’t had to do it yet for any other classes.

does anyone else get like this? i always get nervous before starting a new semester. mainly about how i’m gonna handle the course loads and what my grades are gonna be in the end. i’m only taking two classes in the fall. i’m doing my last pre req for rad tech and my last gen ed course but im just worried. theres so much pressure to be the best. i’m doing really good so far, but even knowing how well i’ve done in my other classes isn’t helping. i have like a pit in my stomach. on the flip side, i can’t wait to be back on campus at least. my summer classes were so boring being that they were virtual and i felt like none of it was real lol.

well, the time has finally come…

we’ve been living with my mother in law since our son was 6 months old. hes 5 now has always shared a room with us, his whole life. with his own crib and then eventually his own bed.

the reason he never transitioned into his own room is because my brother in law was also staying with mother in law, and his was the only extra room that we could possibly make a bedroom for our child, unless we moved out on our own. which if you know the situation with housing in NYC, is next to impossible right now for most people.

but brother in law was able to get his own 1br place eventually with a great new job. so now our son is going to have his own space. we are hyping it up in all the ways we can. talking about how we can decorate it, and how nice it will be for him to be able to play with his toys in there, and how hes gonna get a bigger, cozier, and cooler (house) bed. hes currently still in a toddler bed.

hes excited but hes also worried about sleeping all on his own at night. i told him i would come lay with him until he falls asleep and check on him throughout the night if i’m awake. but i can already see how much we’re going to be going through in the middle of the night with him probably waking us up, wanting to come into our bed, or him wanting me to come spend the entire night with him. he usually sleeps through the night but i understand that this transition is highly likely to disrupt that.

any tips for getting him settled as quickly as possible without putting pressure on him to be perfect at sleeping in his own room right away? i know this is gonna be something major for him developmentally even if it seems like a small thing.

Final grades are supposed to be up for summer session 2 and i still see nothing. Do the professors still have the rest of today? Like how our assignments are due at 11:59pm? lol. or should they have been posted already? idk i’m just wondering bc for my previous 5 classes all of my grades have been posted at least a day before.

My son is half dominican on his dad’s side and half italian on my side (ethnically). We live in America. My husband immigrated with his mom when he was 2. my family has been here for 2 generations. So i never learned anything other than english from my parents, and that’s the language i have to communicate with my son in.
My husband speaks spanish fluently. And although i’m picking up on spanish, my husband communicates with me in english, so my son has always known he speaks english.
my husband has tried only speaking to him in spanish though. and his grandma who lives with us too. but since the day he started talking, he has absolutely refused to say anything in spanish. he didn’t pick it up when he was a baby/toddler and now that he’s 4, almost 5, he seems like embarrassed? i don’t know exactly why. when asked he just says “i’m shy” or “i dont want to”.
most of his extended family speaks spanish only, so it’s really important to us that he learns. we’ve tried to take the pressure off, just say words casually and hope he starts using them but he won’t. so we’ve started to ask more often if he can say them, but he also won’t do that. i’m lost. idk how i can help. i’ve tried speaking in spanish too even though it’s not good, to motivate him. hoping he would want to do what mommy is doing. but still nothing. any advice?
also he does understand quite a bit of it. phrases like hello, how are you?, have you eaten?, what did you eat?, do you want…?, come here, here you go, thank you, your welcome, kisses, hugs, hurry, that’s mine, leave it alone, fart (lol of course), sleep, shower, etc.

My son wants a birthday party. He’s turning 5 in September. We can absolutely do a little party in our backyard with family and his cousins all around the same age. We will cook for it, we could even barbecue, and we will have cake. Problem is I assume by then he will have made kindergarten friends and want them to come too. He’s very social and loves including other kids. I would be open to inviting a few of them, but what if they tell the whole class and the other kids feel left out? I definitely cannot afford to feed 20-24 kids, nor do I have the space (very small house and yard and huge family already coming). Do i just wait till next year to start inviting friends, or should I invite a few if he wants? So far all of his parties have been family only. This upcoming part of parenthood with real and potentially lifelong friends already has me feeling so stressed LOL.

1. i got an invitation to apply today and i wanted to know from people who have done it or are doing it, what are the true advantages besides early registration and getting to graduate with an honors title? especially for someone who's going to be applying to the rad tech program because the email mostly mention advantages for other majors such as engineering. they say there is also opportunities to make connections in your intended field, was that true for you as a rad tech honors scholar?
2. what kind of events and activities did you do? theres a requirement for at least one event and one project each semester but it's vague what those things are.
3. I'm going to be done with all my pre requisite and general ed requirements this fall, so i will have a gap semester in the spring while waiting on application results for fall 2027. does this impact the honors scholar status? will i have to forfeit my spot and reapply once i'm attending the clinical rad tech program? or would filing a leave of absence keep it active?
   btw i do plan on calling or emailing to ask before i submit my application, i just know sometimes it takes a while to hear back from staff at city tech and it's due august 3rd so i dont have much time to decide.

i have two diff professors for a&p2 in the fall, isaac barjis and john babu. one for lab and one for lecture. their rmps are good enough for me but i’m wondering how it is having two different professors, is it hard to keep up? does the material get confusing? i’m really good at science but it was a struggle to get an A in a&p1 and i feel like it might be hard to stay organized..

I’m 25. I’m in a happy marriage. We want a child so desperately, but i’m struggling with infertility.

i know my options, ive explored them, not trying to sound mean but i don’t need advice, just a space to spill my feelings… for now we’re really just still hoping to get pregnant naturally.

i got pregnant 2 and a half years ago, and it turned out to be a miscarriage at 7 weeks. I was devastated. I didnt really get to process the grief. Still had hope though because at that point we had only just started really trying again after 2 years of just not being protected and not tracking.

Now two and a half years later (4.5 total) still nothing. Everytime my period is late i think maybe i could be.. i go to buy a test, take it, negative. Hundreds of negative tests.

My period is late again this month but i know realistically it’s coming sooner or later. I’m just really really sad about it.

My husband’s sister is newly pregnant with her third. his brother and his wife had their 5th a year after my miscarriage. his close cousins already have 3 and they had their first literally only 4 years ago. everyone gets pregnant so easily. i dont get it.

I pray and pray and try all the things, the supplements, the ovulation tracking… when is it my turn? my baby should’ve been almost 2…

sorry for the long rant, bless you if you read this far. 🩷

I’m 25. I had my first child at 20. I’m in a happy marriage with that same child’s father. We want another child so desperately, but i’m struggling with secondary infertility.

i know my options, ive explored them, not trying to sound mean but i don’t need advice, just a space to spill my feelings… for now were really just still hoping to get pregnant naturally.

i got pregnant 2 and a half years ago when my first child was two, and it turned out to be a miscarriage at 7 weeks. I was devastated. I didnt really get to process the grief while handling a toddler. Still had hope though because at that point we had only just started reallt trying again.

Now two and a half years later still nothing. Everytime my period is late i think maybe.. i go to buy a test, take it, negative. Hundreds of negative tests.

My period is late again this month but i know realistically it’s coming sooner or later. I’m just really really sad about it.

My husband’s sister is newly pregnant with her third. his brother and his wife had their 5th a year after my miscarriage. his close cousins already have 3 and they had their first AFTER my first. everyone gets pregnant so easily. i dont get it.

I pray and pray and try all the things, the supplements, the ovulation tracking… when is it my turn?

dont get me wrong i am so thankful for my first child. i love him more than anything and i sometimes think it’ll be okay if i dont have another. i’m very very lucky to have him. but he’s growing up so fast, and my second should’ve been almost 2… i mourn him or her… and i just want to experience it again.

sorry for the long rant, bless you if you read this far. 🩷

Hi guys, I signed up for WI A&P2 bc my degreeworks says i need 2 WI courses so i was assuming i would take that one and then take another one in my clinical classes (rad tech). What i’m confused about is that my psych professor posted an intro video for our summer class where he says his course is WI. but i don’t see anything anywhere on cunyfirst indicating that. for A&P2 it says it right under the enrollment info. i’m trying to figure out if this psych class is going to help me meet the WI requirement or not because it would be nice to not even have to think about it anymore but i can’t seem to confirm. Degreeworks doesn’t seem to be counting it as WI either. should i email to ask or is there another way to find out?

current student. my school offers a bachelors program for CT or MRI to students who’ve graduated from their associate rad tech program. should i do it like a year after i graduate? or would it be better to just cross train? does the bachelor degree really even matter? would it take me less or more time to cross train in a hospital?

(hes almost 5 in 2 months) and it’s confusing because we give him as much positive attention as is humanly possible. we try to sit down with him and do fun craft activities but he looses it if we don’t do something exactly the way he wants or if it has anything to do with education god forbid (like tracing, counting, etc), he says that stuff is boring and won’t even give it a try. which is hard to hear because hes not even in kindergarten and hes already sworn off learning (which we always talk positively about and never try to push) and i can just picture what we’re going to go through in grade school. we try to watch movies with him and if he didn’t decide exactly what we’re watching he screams about it. if we let him play by himself he’s begging us to join but gets so mad the second we go off script. we try to play music so he can dance and refuses to listen to anything except the same k-pop song 10 times in a row, we can’t play music we like without him sitting in one spot and complaining through every song. he hates drawing for more than 5 minutes. he never listens to directions without talking back a million times first. he keeps asking for things we’ve already said no to 40 times in one hour. he tries to find ways around our rules. tests hard boundaries. and again, we fill his cup with so much love and affection everyday. we give him praise for every good thing we notice. sometimes i wonder if hes just not bored enough. we’ve tried taking away screens to let his imagination run wild, same frustrations pop up in different ways. i don’t know what to do. he’ll even refuse to do something as simple as smile for a picture. ive considered that maybe he’s neurodivergent in some way (which trust me i do not want to put labels on him easily but it’s getting to a point). but his pre-k teachers dont have ANY of these problems. they do not think that’s even on the radar. he just seems to WANT us to get upset with him. and i feel like a horrible mom for getting upset about it. we’ve tried all the gentle parenting. but i find myself yelling a lot more often. my parents would have NEVER let this stuff slide and it’s hard to cope with a child that acts like he runs the show. please. someone tell me this gets easier.

weighing my options if i don’t get into rad tech fall 2027 cohort when i apply next spring.. dental hygiene seems to have more pre reqs, nursing seems to have less and i think i would have already completed them. it seems like i would just have to take the teas but i’m not 100% positive. maybe i’m reading the requirements wrong. can anyone tell me if you don’t mind?

It’s my last pre-req, so far have a 4.0. I would like to get familiar with the course material over the summer so i can ensure an A. can anyone tell me what i should study ahead of time?

From what I understand only a BLS is required but i was wondering if getting an ACLS certification would help me more with getting jobs after I finish the program and also if it’s really even worth it? How often are you actually performing life saving measures while doing an x-ray? also should i renew my ekg certification?

It’s been my dream to move to Italy for my entire life, I am a second gen Italian American and my parents fought like hell to keep the culture alive even though it was very hard being Italian in America when my grandparents came over here. I love who I am and where my family comes from and I feel like I would be so much happier and healthier in Italy, now that the opportunities my grandparents came here for have given me the ability to be financially stable anywhere I want. I am deeply grateful for them coming here, but America can’t offer me anything I want out of life anymore. I’m really considering making this move. I just need to learn Italian because it never stuck with me as a child haha. And theres one really big problem.

I know me and my son could probably get a visa fairly easily, especially since I still have extended family in Italy. But from what I’ve read, anyone with a felony is ineligible. My husband has a few felonies. And no I’m not trying to bring hardened criminals into your country, don’t worry lol. He is a completely (I mean COMPLETELY) changed person and all of his past offenses were non-violent. Is there anyway we can get around this? Is him being my husband enough or will we have to jump through a bunch of legal hoops to get him here if we actually went through with leaving the US? It’s also a little more complicated because technically he is a citizen of the Dominican Republic with permanent US residency. any advice is appreciated!!

Hi i posted yesterday about permission for rad 1124. still haven’t heard anything from the rad department and now my schedule builder says theres no terms available for me to register for?? im already registered for a&p2 in the fall… i’m so confused, idk if it’s related to the rad 1124 stuff or not but who do i contact to find out? registrar? like what is going on city techhhh

hi guys, i figured you might be able to give me some good advice as DIY lovers. i had to buy a size 5 suit for my child because that’s the only way the top half would fit, but the bottoms are HUGE. i mean they won’t even stay up. i’m planning on getting a belt for him but i’m wondering how i can fix the super long legs? i have no sewing kit or machine and i really don’t want to have to spend money on a tailor but if there’s no other option i guess i’ll have to. folding them up also looks really weird. his pre-k graduation is next wednesday so i have about 7 days to figure it out. thanks in advance!