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so i'm two weeks into my program and...well....the jury is still out.
classes are good for the most part. as of right now it is all mostly review of undergrad. no big deal. it's interesting enough and so far not very hard. we've gotten all of our assignments for the semester already, so that is nice to be able to plan that all out....
clinic is a little bit scarier. we aren't given very much direction and i'm finding that frustrating. overall i'm a little bit scared that i'm not going to like it. i have three clients, and they are all 5-6, mild-moderate expressive/receptive language delays and articulation. good kids, nothing very hard or complicated to say the least. I need to start working on scoring the assessments i've given them and on the initial reports, which i think are due on thursday. it kind of sucks because i just found out that our undergraduate "assistants" are taking over for us in less than a month....so i'm not going to worry too much about getting attached to these kids. i hear we are going to be transfered to a head start, which i think will be pretty cool...and probably better than my current outpatient placement. and we won't have to wear the icky blue lab coats.
the girls all seem nice (well, girls at 3 guys). they actually organized an SLP bar crawl for last week. so.....i went on my first bar crawl. i got water spilled on my pants and left after dinner. HOWEVER, i'm glad that i went because as much as it made me feel like an outcast i'm 99.9% sure that it was just in my head and i would have regretted not going at all because it was good to get some face time with them. and i do like making friends, which i am!
overall, it's still hard to judge how i really am liking it. some parts of it are still really awkward for me, but i can say with certainty that i am glad that i am just doing it, because there would be no way that i would have been happy taking a year or two off before grad school. i don't think i ever would have gone back.
in other news, yesterday was a really great day. stefan and i went to the victorian festival back in northville, which i hadn't been to in probably five or six years. no walking tacos, which was disappointing, but a good time nonetheless. we went to parmenters and ate cider and donuts back by the giant dirt hill where we watched the ducks and kids ruin their pants. then we went to steph's grad party, which was fun. she gave me back some cds, which i am listening to now. i haven't heard them since i left state, so needless to say it is very weird, because anything associated with that time in my life brings up weirdness for me. and i would rather just not think about any of that.
i need to go transcribe to check for gliding and stopping. see ya.
classes are good for the most part. as of right now it is all mostly review of undergrad. no big deal. it's interesting enough and so far not very hard. we've gotten all of our assignments for the semester already, so that is nice to be able to plan that all out....
clinic is a little bit scarier. we aren't given very much direction and i'm finding that frustrating. overall i'm a little bit scared that i'm not going to like it. i have three clients, and they are all 5-6, mild-moderate expressive/receptive language delays and articulation. good kids, nothing very hard or complicated to say the least. I need to start working on scoring the assessments i've given them and on the initial reports, which i think are due on thursday. it kind of sucks because i just found out that our undergraduate "assistants" are taking over for us in less than a month....so i'm not going to worry too much about getting attached to these kids. i hear we are going to be transfered to a head start, which i think will be pretty cool...and probably better than my current outpatient placement. and we won't have to wear the icky blue lab coats.
the girls all seem nice (well, girls at 3 guys). they actually organized an SLP bar crawl for last week. so.....i went on my first bar crawl. i got water spilled on my pants and left after dinner. HOWEVER, i'm glad that i went because as much as it made me feel like an outcast i'm 99.9% sure that it was just in my head and i would have regretted not going at all because it was good to get some face time with them. and i do like making friends, which i am!
overall, it's still hard to judge how i really am liking it. some parts of it are still really awkward for me, but i can say with certainty that i am glad that i am just doing it, because there would be no way that i would have been happy taking a year or two off before grad school. i don't think i ever would have gone back.
in other news, yesterday was a really great day. stefan and i went to the victorian festival back in northville, which i hadn't been to in probably five or six years. no walking tacos, which was disappointing, but a good time nonetheless. we went to parmenters and ate cider and donuts back by the giant dirt hill where we watched the ducks and kids ruin their pants. then we went to steph's grad party, which was fun. she gave me back some cds, which i am listening to now. i haven't heard them since i left state, so needless to say it is very weird, because anything associated with that time in my life brings up weirdness for me. and i would rather just not think about any of that.
i need to go transcribe to check for gliding and stopping. see ya.