Student
Evaluations
A special thank you is extended to NMU-Academic and Career Advisement Center secretary, Lori Marshall, for her diligence in tabulating and typing this page.
Rating: 1
to 5 (5 being high)
Total Student Surveys - 426 of
Overall Program:
1. The information
provided was valuable and helped me think more about my career options.
1 - 3
2 - 12
3 - 18 4 -
166 5 - 227
2. I learned more about
the education and training required for my chosen career.
1 - 12
2 - 13 3
- 54 4 -
135 5 -
212
3. The amount of time for
presentations was sufficient.
1 – 3 2 - 7 3 -
47 4 - 138
5 - 231
4. What was the most
important and/or interesting thing you learned during this activity at NMU?
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Hands on demonstrations which made it more interesting.
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Follow your dreams, make sure the decisions you make now will satisfy you
in the future.
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How to get involved in my career and how to make it happen.
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How they use titanium components when fixing spines.
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How these people made it to where they are now.
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Being a Marine Biologist looks awesome!
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Important choices that lead to occupational chances.
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I am more interested in being a vet.
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Ways to get into photography.
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That you have to be an officer before a detective.
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I learned more about paying off loans and how long I will be in school.
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Architectural aspects
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Paramedics have to be able to save people in a matter of seconds.
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What would set me apart from other applicants and what I would be getting
into for the career I want.
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The discussion about the MRI dealing with magnets and metal.
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The most interesting thing was the taser.
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Need college degree.
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That I have to deal with all of this very soon…
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Different types of therapy.
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You don’t have to like people to be a psychologist.
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Lab tech because I didn’t know much about it.
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Job in music and where to look for a job.
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Interesting to learn most of the careers involve a lot of travel.
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More hands on for the secondary education.
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I enjoyed that every speaker enjoyed what they were talking about.
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That I want to be a nurse and learn more about that.
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To be a teacher you need 4 -5 years of college.
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How much paperwork you have to do to when you are a cop.
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Doing the CPR and saving a doll and then using the shocker to revive them
and giving shots.
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To be a photographer and run your own business. The speakers recommended
majoring in business management.
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I learned a lot about Pioneer Surgical.
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The importance of communication skills.
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There are many types of Engineering.
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Education and training required for certain careers.
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Commercial arts
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I should be in law enforcement at least 5 years before entering the FBI
training. Even though I’m female,
there are many jobs in law enforcement I can do.
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Science is cool!
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$20,000,000,000 goes to the cost of energy a year.
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There are a lot of different jobs in the accounting field - Many
opportunities available.
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All the different programs and ways to create and design graphics.
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I learned what exactly commercial arts are and I’m very interested in it.
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Work skills required.
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Pipe fitting and working and doing electricity.
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The amount of open jobs available and the courses needed to be taken.
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What my options are after high school and the opportunities that are
given.
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I learned how to do full examination on a dog and saw many surgeries on a
video she showed.
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Occupational therapy
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The most interesting thing I learned was about being a social worker.
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Radiology.
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How to get into the DNR.
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Culinary Arts.
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Large amount of money bricklayers make.
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It was interesting to learn that in the engineering field, one’s degree
does not necessarily correspond to their career.
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Getting un-paid experience is good.
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Networking.
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The Government presentation was extremely interesting and helpful.
It was great to meet with a Regional Representative to Senator Levin.
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I learned that contrary to my beliefs, mechanics have very secure jobs.
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Business takes a lot of skills.
Psychology/Sociology is a good field to join.
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I really enjoyed talking with Dr. Howard.
She was very informative and real with us about the process of going to
school and into medicine.
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In Hospitality & Tourism seeing how you have to put all different kinds
of things together. How you get to
work with others.
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Just about everything I needed to know about cooking and therapy.
The two things I wanted to know about.
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I found it interesting that I will be able to learn “hands-on” by either
internship or a part-time job.
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Psychology.
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The K-9 dogs and zoology fields.
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Massage Therapy
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The income that one gets when getting another degree like a masters or
PhD is worth it, even though it is expensive.
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How to work in a scientific profession in cooperation with a university.
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The most interesting thing was that weather control is government
operated.
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About geologists. They find
rocks and minerals that are worth lots.
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Learning to be a radio anchor.
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I liked to learn about all of the broad jobs that you can go into with
auto maintenance.
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It takes 9 exams to become an aircraft tech.
5. How could we improve
this event in the future?
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Keep the students involved.
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More time for lunch.
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It was awesome!
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Nothing. It was great.
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Free snacks and bring in lineman.
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Making sure that people really get their top choices when they fill the
form out.
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More hands on activities.
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Vegetarian meals for lunch because I don’t eat meat.
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Have more than just two careers available, many kids like me have several
interests.
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More visuals.
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More time and handouts.
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More time for the speakers or more than two choices.
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More organized.
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I wanted to learn more about pharmacy bit either didn’t get in or a class
wasn’t offered.
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Have it one school at a time and have them sit in on one of the actual
college classes; see a first hand experience of what the class is like that the
student is interested in.
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Marquette kids could walk.
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Eat at the cafeteria and not boxed lunches.
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Have class sign up at the event and have options to choose where students
want to go based on what’s there.
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Add more sessions.
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More sessions that could be shorter.
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Help people actually get what they signed up for.
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Lengthen it
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Have more time for the presenters.
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Do not need improvement.
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Spell the students name right.
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To be able to come and go to each session desired.
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Longer lunch and more choice of food.
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Have us pick classes closer to the date of the event.
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More classes, maybe an all day thing?
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Divide time more evenly, lunch was too short.
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Learn more about electricity and safety.
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Possibly have more instructors from the classes at Northern.
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Make more questions.
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Play a game during sessions.
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Have a greater variety of classes offered as in not just two classes but
3 or 4 so that we can get a broader understanding of career fields out there.
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Shorter classes and more classes, such as 4-6, so we have more things to
learn.
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Snacks in between classes.
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The presenters were excellent.
I personally don’t think that you need to improve anything.
Thank you for the opportunity to see how some of my future careers are going to be like.
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Make career day a whole day so we can see more presentations from a
variety of different professions.
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Make more careers have PowerPoint/handouts.
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Start earlier, give more classes.
Have fun! Maybe have projects
or activities.
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Maybe have more sessions for students that do not know what they want to
go into.
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The nursing careers course was alright but, I didn’t learn anything new
or really exciting. The hands-on
activities are fun though!
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After giving us all the information, have us each interact in some way
with a related activity.
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Three class sessions.
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Have longer presentation time and allow more time for questions and one
on one talk with presenters.
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