I'M DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm done with x-ray school!!! My last day of clinicals was Aug. 5, I took the Registry exam on Aug. 10 -- and scored a 97% on it!!! *happy dance* Maybe now I'll have time to keep up around here!

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Firstly, happy holidays, y'all, whatever you celebrate. Yesterday was stuff-us-full-of-food at work (asiago chicken, wild rice, ginger glazed carrots, and chocolate raspberry Yule log….mmmmm!), last weekend was the annual caroling party (tons of appetizers, loads of liquor and then WE SING!!!!), and the Aqua Shocks swim coach bought the lifeguards ( Read more... )

All $700 that I took out of savings for textbooks and supplies is gone. Books were $530. I also needed a new printer cartridge, and I bought a new pair of tennis shoes ($100) which I'll need for my clinicals. And I've got probably another $100 to go. I still need one more book (maybe -- it's a medical dictionary which Mom's trying to find a used ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the first day of school for me. Two mornings of orientation to the radiology tech program, then classes officially start on Monday. So tomorrow afternoon, I'm gonna go buy textbooks. Place your bets on just how much $$$ I'm gonna have to cough up. I have four classes: Radiologic Exposures I, X-Ray Terminology, Radiologic Physics, and ( Read more... )

I GOT ACCEPTED INTO THE RAD TECH PROGRAM AT HUTCH!!!! *does a happy mai tai dance around the room* Waiting is never one of my strong suits, so the three or four weeks I've been waiting since the application deadline has been hell (except for the week of vacation at the beach). But the letter came today -- I'm accepted into the radiology tech ( Read more... )

From the depths of my anatomy class, I struggle to the surface ( Read more... )

Sheesh, amazing how life gets busy and ya don't have time to post much ( Read more... )

I talked to my biology teacher last night. If I can score a 93 on next week's unit exam, I won't have to take the final! Considering the lowest test grade I've gotten in this class is a 94, WOOT! I'm still gonna study my butt off, but a lot of the test is supposed to be genetics problems/Punnett squares, which is a piece o' cake ( Read more... )

Hope everyone had a happy Turkey Day. I had a busy one. I packed. For five hours straight. Then did homework, then went out to dinner with a bunch of "strays" from work (those of us with no family/etc. in the area....we went to one of the country club restaurants for a turkey dinner). And ( Read more... )