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Whoever said grad school was easier than undergrad (Jenn! Sharm!), totally lied! >:/ haha no ok it's not quite harder, and very well may be easier, but the workLOAD is killing me! It's so difficult to finish all the readings, and then while some groups have made reading groups, so you just read a couple of articles, summarize and share them, it's not exactly conducive to many of our studying styles. I think I'd learn best by reading..then summarizing the main points. Ugh, there is just SO MUCH material! And then each week there's at least one (sometimes two) assignments due. Weekends are packed catching up on the previous weeks readings, reading for the following Monday at least (which is when there are 2 classes, so double the reading compared to the rest of the week) and working on assignments!
I'm trying my best though, and hopefully I'll manage my time more efficiently. No more sleeping in on weekends. I'm going to wake up early and work work work then try to take a break and then feel ok about it, rather than feeling like I'm cheating on school with fun, the entire time, which totally defeats the purpose of a break if you're thinking about all the work!
I've been wanting to make more posts but like this one, they'll all just be really quick and oh so to the point. But I do want to have something to come back to like I did during undergrad. I've got so much of that documented, so now I'd like to do the same with grad school.
I'm slowly getting into it, but I still feel a bit out of place. Less so than at the beginning as I've got one solid group of groups, and then a few other girls that I talk to often. They're all really great, though there are some that make you go 'umm...uh...what the ...? But overall, they're alright.
Oh and we had our first clinical interview test yesterday. After practicing on each other the week before. But it's a pass/fail type thing so it wasn't the biggest deal. And the client wasn't a real one (and uh, why would it be, they'd just think we were all on drugs and never want to see a real OT hah), so it was a good learning process. But I think I over prepared for it, to the point where I had so many questions laid out, but it totally depends on what course the client takes and what comes up as you ask your initial questions, so I basically had to throw my list away and just try to probe and do other things to facilitate the interview process. It was weird and awkward when the client started crying. I know we're not supposed to give false hope (so I couldn't say 'it's going to be ok!') so instead I just said, 'we will work on that together, to get you to be able to do..........'. Wow. She was a good actress.
And then there's anatomy. I actually have to retain what I learn in these classes (over the 2 years) because there will most likely be questions on the certification exam :( I'm not too bad at it, but it just takes so much work, to sit there with diagrams and half of it seems so abstract, the structures and this and that and ugh. It will make sense, I hope, once I go over it again (refreshers, etc., and then build upon it).
ANyway....so I don't sleep in too late, I should REALLY complete isha salat and then go to bed, so I'm able to wake up for fajr and then until 9am, MAX. It's gonna be hard, but I'm SO going to do it!!!
I'm trying my best though, and hopefully I'll manage my time more efficiently. No more sleeping in on weekends. I'm going to wake up early and work work work then try to take a break and then feel ok about it, rather than feeling like I'm cheating on school with fun, the entire time, which totally defeats the purpose of a break if you're thinking about all the work!
I've been wanting to make more posts but like this one, they'll all just be really quick and oh so to the point. But I do want to have something to come back to like I did during undergrad. I've got so much of that documented, so now I'd like to do the same with grad school.
I'm slowly getting into it, but I still feel a bit out of place. Less so than at the beginning as I've got one solid group of groups, and then a few other girls that I talk to often. They're all really great, though there are some that make you go 'umm...uh...what the ...? But overall, they're alright.
Oh and we had our first clinical interview test yesterday. After practicing on each other the week before. But it's a pass/fail type thing so it wasn't the biggest deal. And the client wasn't a real one (and uh, why would it be, they'd just think we were all on drugs and never want to see a real OT hah), so it was a good learning process. But I think I over prepared for it, to the point where I had so many questions laid out, but it totally depends on what course the client takes and what comes up as you ask your initial questions, so I basically had to throw my list away and just try to probe and do other things to facilitate the interview process. It was weird and awkward when the client started crying. I know we're not supposed to give false hope (so I couldn't say 'it's going to be ok!') so instead I just said, 'we will work on that together, to get you to be able to do..........'. Wow. She was a good actress.
And then there's anatomy. I actually have to retain what I learn in these classes (over the 2 years) because there will most likely be questions on the certification exam :( I'm not too bad at it, but it just takes so much work, to sit there with diagrams and half of it seems so abstract, the structures and this and that and ugh. It will make sense, I hope, once I go over it again (refreshers, etc., and then build upon it).
ANyway....so I don't sleep in too late, I should REALLY complete isha salat and then go to bed, so I'm able to wake up for fajr and then until 9am, MAX. It's gonna be hard, but I'm SO going to do it!!!