{"id":26561,"date":"2019-05-23T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T12:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=26561"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T15:02:42","slug":"mother-grandmother-and-wife-balances-life-and-work-to-earn-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/mother-grandmother-and-wife-balances-life-and-work-to-earn-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, grandmother and wife balances life and work to earn degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"608\" height=\"900\" data-attachment-id=\"26564\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/mother-grandmother-and-wife-balances-life-and-work-to-earn-degree\/stephanie-west\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West.png\" data-orig-size=\"608,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Stephanie West\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West.png\" class=\"alignright wp-image-26564\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West.png 608w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West-203x300.png 203w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West-580x859.png 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West-135x200.png 135w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2019\/05\/Stephanie-West-270x400.png 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><strong>\u201c<em>You didn\u2019t come this far, to only come this far.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the wall of Stephanie West\u2019s office in the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Department of Athletics hangs a poster with those words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was how I got through the next class when I thought I couldn\u2019t do it anymore,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s come a long way.<\/p>\n<p>A wife, mom, grandmother and full-time employee in Athletics, the 46-year-old West has juggled multiple responsibilities while working toward her degree in dietetics. On Saturday, she\u2019ll walk across the stage at McKenzie Arena and says it\u2019s finally dawned on her that everything she has worked for over seven years is about to come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I catch myself smiling when I\u2019m thinking about all of that chemistry behind me.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Educational Interest<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>West has been interested in nutrition since she was in high school. Her boss from a job she had in high school gave her a cookbook years ago that held important scientific facts about nutrition. Since then, she has used that information when she cooks, especially when making meals for her four kids and husband, Danny West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI appreciate how important food is to fuel your body,\u201d says West, who works as an administrative assistant in Athletics. \u201cI do believe that food is medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While working in UTC\u2019s nursing program as a grant coordinator, West saw first-hand the important role dieticians play in the healthcare field. She knew she would go back to school someday to study dietetics; she just didn\u2019t know when.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cwhen\u201d came after all her kids were either in college or closer to an age when they could take care of themselves.<\/p>\n<p>And now that she\u2019s about to officially earn her degree, her kids and husband tell her all the time how proud they are of her. She hopes she is an example to them\u2014and everyone around her\u2014to keep moving forward even when it isn\u2019t easy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hoping because they know how hard this has been for me, that when they face hard things, they can remember how I pushed through and finished,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>But she is equally proud of her family and says she wouldn\u2019t have been able to do it without them supporting her when the load seemed too heavy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to quit a lot,\u201d she says, \u201cbut they would encourage me and tell me I couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The hardest part about being in school hasn\u2019t been the studying, the long nights or busy schedule. It\u2019s having to tell her grandkids she can\u2019t do something with them because she has school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow they ask me, \u2018Do you have school?\u2019 I\u2019ll be glad when I don\u2019t have to say \u2018I do\u2019 anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Classes<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Even though some of her classmates <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">\u00a0<\/span>assumed she was the professor instead of the student the first time they met, she quickly fit in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just treated me like every other student,\u201d she says. \u201cI never felt any different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But being closer in age to her classmates\u2019 parents, she feels a sense of pride for their accomplishments and is one of their biggest cheerleaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just impressed at how hard they worked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West says she stayed focused on her tasks by thinking only about her next test or next paper while avoiding thinking about all the upcoming projects beyond those.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust get through this next test and assignment,\u201d she says, \u201cand not try to be overwhelmed by the magnitude of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dietetics degree required her to complete five chemistry courses which required a lot of math, a subject she\u2019s never liked. She waded through, but admits there were times when the periodic table wasn\u2019t her friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter working all day, you don\u2019t always have the brain power to come home and learn about chemical equations,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Still, she encourages anyone contemplating whether to go back to school to go ahead and take that leap.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to encourage people to not form barriers in their mind,\u201d West says. \u201cWe have a lot of resources today that make the process a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s achievable and worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wife, mom, grandmother and full-time employee in Athletics, Stephanie West has juggled multiple responsibilities while working toward her degree in dietetics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/05\/mother-grandmother-and-wife-balances-life-and-work-to-earn-degree\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1364,"featured_media":26580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,61,7712,8244,64,661],"tags":[83515,83514],"class_list":{"0":"post-26561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-faculty-and-staff","10":"category-honors-and-awards","11":"category-news","12":"category-students","13":"tag-dietetics","14":"tag-stephanie-west","15":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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