My name is Katy and I am a full time student at Salt Lake Community College. I am seeking my AS in General Studies to fulfill the prerequisites required to apply to the Bastyr University Department of Midwifery. I plan to earn my combined Bachelors/Masters of Science in Midwifery. Midwifery is something I’ve been passionate about for more than a decade, beginning with the birth of my first son. Through my years at SLCC I’ve found a love of helping my fellow students, and enjoy tutoring math and assisting in the anatomy lab.

I have the incredible fortune of being mother to not one, but two phenomenal sons. They are both great students, and provided my initial motivation to attain and maintain a 4.0. I am a pretty serious animal lover and on top of our own dogs and cats, we very often find ourselves fostering various animals for The Humane Society of Utah. Fostering is something we really enjoy doing, though it seems our foster animals always find us at the most inopportune times. Chalk it up to a lesson in patience and acceptance perhaps.

I am an avid reader and enjoy both fiction and non-fiction, though I discovered early in my first semester that reading for pleasure is largely impossible during the semester. Music is a critically important aspect of my life. I love to sing and do so constantly; you’ll never find me in a silent room or vehicle. Both of my sons play various musical instruments, and after many years of procrastination I finally learned guitar. A new enjoyment in my life is writing music with my son, and teaching my youngest son guitar. I love to listen to them sing and play music.

I enjoy spending time outdoors with my family in the desert (especially Moab), the mountains, and at the ocean. We enjoy hiking, camping, swimming & riding bikes together. I was a people-photographer by trade before I came back to school, but always preferred photographing things more than people. My eldest son caught the photo-but and really enjoys learning photography, and being a photographer for his school year book.

I came back to school with the misbelief that I both hated and was no good at math and science, and now ending my science requisites and having finished my math, I’m registered for both math and science classes in spring that I am taking just for fun! I’ve come to realize that the enjoyment of a subject is largely based on who is presenting it, and I feel extremely grateful for the professors I’ve had here at SLCC that have shown me the light! I now love math and science, and I wish I had the time and funds to take all the classes offered in both subjects.