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| Tuesday, September 4, 2007 |
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91.6% on my first test. That rounds up to an 'A'. I own ;o)
I don't know how I did it, but...I did?
Now hopefully I can keep doing it.
PS: new layout. |
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| Monday, September 3, 2007 |
| first test |
We have our first test tomorrow and I'm pretty scared. I don't feel like I'm studying right. Nothing is really clicking or sinking in. I'm going to feel like a complete moron if I bomb this test tomorrow. I don't know what I'll do. All the second year students raved about our professor, but I don't know. I'm not sure if I 'get' him. He goes off on tangents and the class is long enough as it is. I don't know how well this is going to work for me.
Good news, if you want to call it that, is that pretty much everyone else in my class feels the same I do and the second years said they felt that way at the beginning too. I guess I'm just afraid I'm going to be one of those ones that it really IS a problem for.
I suppose we'll see after I take the test and get the grade back. |
| posted by Courto @ 5:08 PM |
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| Friday, August 24, 2007 |
| the first two days |
I had my first two days of classes this week. I don't have a whole lot to do as of yet - just chapter one out of the medical terminology book and brushing up a little on what we went over on thursday before returning to class next week - but I'm sure it's going to pick up the pace VERY quickly.
$360 worth of books:
Luckily only two are hardback, otherwise it would have been a ton more.
Class time seems to drag EXTREMELY slow though. It's bad enough that it's scheduled from 9-4, but 50 minutes seriously seems like two hours. At least we get a break every 50 minutes, but still. Hopefully it's just something we need to adjust to.
Some not-so-good news though - Some of the clinicals are all the way out in Boo-Foo Egypt, aka Lakeland and Brooksville. Hillsborough county has at least five hospitals - is that REALLY necessary? NOT looking forward to doing that twice a week during those semesters.
Otherwise, so far, so good. |
| posted by Courto @ 7:44 AM |
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| Wednesday, July 18, 2007 |
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12:38AM
Why can't I have these strokes of genius during the daytime? Most of my thoughts and the majority of my motivation come at night time after everyone's gone to bed. Blogging. I've been doing it for years now. I'm coming to a point in my life now where, after two years of life being stagnant at best, the ball will finally start rolling.
I was recently accepted into my college's respiratory therapy program. Orientation is the 27th and class starts late August. It had taken me 4.5 years after graduating high school to figure out what I could possibly do with my life, but I finally narrowed it down to this one. That's mostly what I plan for this blog to be about.
So why respiratory Therapy? Never in a million years would I have thought that this is what I'd end up choosing. i had wanted to be an astronaut in kindergarten, at least until my mother informed me that 1) She had noting astronaut-y for me to wear for "dress up as what you want to be when you grow up day" and 2) I had to do a lot of math. Forget that. I also went through that "I want to be something nearly impossible" phase, which included a pop singer (I'm tone deaf despite eight years of playing violin), a choreographer (I can't dance), and a famous writer ( i couldn't tell you what an adverb is off the top of my head)). I started getting a little more practical - instead of writing award winning novels, I'd have a newspaper column instead! - and eventually found myself interested in a medical career. Not just any medical career though - the less school needed, the better. My first though was EMT, but I seriously got laughed at for that one. Scrawny little Courto lifting a 400 pound man who just had a heart attack onto a stretcher? Pure lolz! After that it was radiation therapy, but you need a 3.75+ GPA at the very least to get into the program and, well, I don't have that. So I wound up at respiratory therapy. Researched it, didn't sound half bad and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do it. I had the prerequisites, I have the grades, so I went for it. And I got it. |
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