Introducing Christine...AKA Mo

Hi everyone!  I'm Christine, but my friends all call me Mo.  I got that nickname in middle school thanks to my friends.  They started calling me monkey because my ears stuck out and I goofed around a lot.  They shortened it to Mo, and it stuck.  I was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, which is where most of my extended family live.  I attended nursery and first school here.  When I was 6 I moved to Buckinghamshire, England, which is just outside of London.  This is where I attended first and middle school, and immediately gained an English accent.  My whole middle school had a population of about 100 students, so it was a shock when I moved to San Diego when I was 12.  Bernardo Heights Middle School had a population of about 2,500, so it was a difficult adjustment.  I gradually gained an American accent, but still use my English accent with my family.  I attended Rancho Bernardo High School, where I was on the track team doing long and triple jump.  Then spent way too long at Palomar College, and am now at CSUSM learning to be a speech therapist.

As far as being up-to-date on the latest technology, I understand the minimum of what I need to know.  I'm capable of learning new things, but really am not that interested in it.  I like to stick with what I know, so when I need to learn a new program I usually get frustrated.  I've been living with my boyfriend for the last 6 years and he's a computer wiz, so I've gotten quite used to him doing everything for me.  He's good at fixing things, which works out well, because I'm good at breaking things.  If the computer doesn't do what I want immediately, I usually want to throw it out the window, so hopefully that won't happen in class.

The CSUSM/COE mission statement did not play a part in my decision to apply to this school.  One part of the statement that stood out to me talks about life-long learning and innovative research.  I feel, as a student, that I am always learning new things, especially from the experiences my teachers have gone through.  Also, through all of the different research studies going on, we are often learning new ways of teaching.