School starts up again tomorrow and I can't say I'm happy about it. On the one hand, I'm ecstatic that I've made it to the halfway point, but on the other...it's only halfway???? Seriously?
I've spent the past few days grocery shopping, cleaning, doing laundry, and getting organized. I was supposed to be studying, but I just haven't been able to bring myself to do much. I'm sure I'll pay for it later. But even the fear of impending immense stress cannot tempt me into opening up my books. I guess that's the difference between the first semester me and the me that I am now....tired, stressed, broke...the list goes on.
Frontloading starts tomorrow...Monday and Tuesday are an all-day lectures for OB...Wednesday morning is a breastfeeding workshop, then we have Wednesday afternoon off! Bliss! Thurs and Fri are all-day Peds lectures. Fun Fun. The rest of the frontloading (which takes up the first two weeks of the semester) is more-or-less the same, with some hospital orientations thrown in for good measure. Then our regular schedule kicks in with lectures on Friday, labs on some Thursdays and clinical 1-2 days a week. We also have to do a boat-load of community health and service. So I guess that will get sprinkled in here and there.
As for clinical, I'm starting out in the Peds rotation which is Wednesdays for 12-hour shifts. I've never done a 12-hour shift before, so we'll see how that goes. OB is my second clinical rotation...and one of the great things for this is"no patient prep!". So, technically, I'll be done doing patient preps in 8 weeks...as in DONE FOREVER! Yayayayayay!
Another positive is that I have heard that this semester isn't nearly as bad as 1st or 2nd...so I'm hoping that holds true. I could use a break.
