I love love LOVE working as a medical assistant! It gets scary at times and I'm probably going to catch every virus that floats around campus this year, but I LOVE IT! The practitioners and GMAs are great. I couldn't ask for better coworkers in that environment. I'd work there for free if I didn't have rent to pay ( Read more... )

First day of Medicinal Chemistry and Toxicology... I am obviously the most uneducated of the 13 students in the class but somehow they still seem accepting. They are science geeks, talking about the molecular structures they find particularly amazing and I want to become one of them. Someday. Maybe soon ( Read more... )

Ever since I've been a Freshman at TESC, I've wanted to submit a comic to the Cooper Point Journal. Now, in what is likely my last year here, I still haven't drawn shit. I am at a loss for ideas... so can anyone help me out? Give me a random situation or character that I could work from... Thanks in advance!

SMA (student medical assistant) training is in full swing. I've already performed blood draws and am pretty familiar with doing all the vitals. In about half an hour, we're giving injections on each other. We get to try intramuscular, subcutaneous AND intradermal (we get TB tests for those), so it should be a pretty long afternoon. I'm not ( Read more... )

Today is my first day of medical assistant training at the Health Center. Five out of eight of us showed up at 8:00am, only to realize that part of the syllabus was misleading and we actually start at 9. That gives my anxiety another hour to grow. I absolutely hate the feeling of being new and not knowing what the fuck is going on. Oh well, it ( Read more... )

I'm starting to believe less and less in free will.

1. Go here.
2. Pass it on.
( my answers )

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I've been having those times lately and I hope they don't stop ( Read more... )

Today, Jerod and I are headed up to the Woodland Park Zoo to see not only animals but

The Decemberists!
and
The Violent Femmes!
I've seen the Femmes before (one of the best shows I've ever been to) but never seen the Decemberists. I am loving the Decemberists via CD, so hopefully they're good live too ( Read more... )