Orientation was boring as hell. Not entirely unexpected, as community college students typically want to go to class, go to work, and go home, not join clubs, though lately the population has been getting quite a bit younger than when I started. It was a relief to see that, when they pulled the parents and other family members out for a separate workshop, not all the folks my age or older left. Most, however, did.
Next time, we so need to do better by our table. We could've done sooooo much more with it. I wanted to shred our brochure. So many spelling and factual errors, which were fixed at the last meeting but apparently that version of the file was lost. Would've been better not to print it at all. I get the sinking sensation I'm about to be sucked into the soon-to-be-vacant VP position, because I have too many ideas of what we could be doing besides spending 75% of our meetings thrashing out our constitution. (And if I need to explain one more time the difference between a quorum and the majority needed to carry a vote on something, I'm going to rip my hair out.) Meanwhile, I'll be lucky to make most of the meetings, considering clinical finishes up at 3:30 and the meetings start at 4. My current plan is to just go late, but that's assuming I don't start completely freaking out over care plans for the next day. I dunno. We'll see. In any case, accepting a position of responsibility would be a Very Bad Idea. I may need reminding of this. Feel free to poke me with sharp objects if I seem to forget it.
Also, Student Services needs to brief us better on how the tours work, because I think the group led by our rep didn't get the full tour. Seems there were eight discrete tour groups and they may have been supposed to switch off as each one finished. Or something. But nobody really explained it.
While we were setting up, I also discovered that I apparently still have "Dear Abby" tattooed to my forehead, as my 19yo helper decided he needed my input on his love life, which ended up boiling down to, "If xyz is making you feel like crap, don't do it next time you're in that situation, but just chalk it up as a learning experience instead of beating yourself up over it." As if I have any business giving anybody relationship advice. *facepalm*
Heading in to the tutoring center soon. My one chem student is already taking her final right now, so there won't be tutoring, but I've volunteered to set up the appointment docs for Spring semester. That might take an hour, maybe. Other than that, I guess I'll be working on dosage calculations and trying to work out why everybody's so wigged out over it. Last semester threw far more curve balls, besides which I still maintain that doing everything via dimensional analysis is a bazillion times easier than memorizing a bunch of separate formulas. One method, works for everything. Yes, even titrations, so long as you understand what you're doing, which I gather is the problem in several situations. A couple of classmates said they may stop in to work on dosage stuff together, which would be cool. Hopefully, either they can help me see wtf is so intimidating about it that everyone is freaking out and I'm apparently missing or else I can help them see that it's the same old stuff just looked at a bit differently.
Managed to get an H1N1 shot last week. Last semester, the deal was that if the hospital we were doing clinicals at wouldn't vaccinate us, we wouldn't take their H1N1 patients. The hospitals aren't having that this time, and while the shot itself isn't yet mandatory (seasonal is), our options are get it or get fit-tested for N95 masks. Either or. So vaccinated people won't be wearing them apparently. Um, considering the rate at which viruses mutate, I'm a bit horrified at the idea I'm going to be wearing less protective gear solely on the basis of having had the vaccine. On the other hand, I am glad to have had it as I'm more than slightly surprised I've not caught the damned thing yet.
Babbling and procrastinating, yeah. Time to get my butt in gear. *waves*
Next time, we so need to do better by our table. We could've done sooooo much more with it. I wanted to shred our brochure. So many spelling and factual errors, which were fixed at the last meeting but apparently that version of the file was lost. Would've been better not to print it at all. I get the sinking sensation I'm about to be sucked into the soon-to-be-vacant VP position, because I have too many ideas of what we could be doing besides spending 75% of our meetings thrashing out our constitution. (And if I need to explain one more time the difference between a quorum and the majority needed to carry a vote on something, I'm going to rip my hair out.) Meanwhile, I'll be lucky to make most of the meetings, considering clinical finishes up at 3:30 and the meetings start at 4. My current plan is to just go late, but that's assuming I don't start completely freaking out over care plans for the next day. I dunno. We'll see. In any case, accepting a position of responsibility would be a Very Bad Idea. I may need reminding of this. Feel free to poke me with sharp objects if I seem to forget it.
Also, Student Services needs to brief us better on how the tours work, because I think the group led by our rep didn't get the full tour. Seems there were eight discrete tour groups and they may have been supposed to switch off as each one finished. Or something. But nobody really explained it.
While we were setting up, I also discovered that I apparently still have "Dear Abby" tattooed to my forehead, as my 19yo helper decided he needed my input on his love life, which ended up boiling down to, "If xyz is making you feel like crap, don't do it next time you're in that situation, but just chalk it up as a learning experience instead of beating yourself up over it." As if I have any business giving anybody relationship advice. *facepalm*
Heading in to the tutoring center soon. My one chem student is already taking her final right now, so there won't be tutoring, but I've volunteered to set up the appointment docs for Spring semester. That might take an hour, maybe. Other than that, I guess I'll be working on dosage calculations and trying to work out why everybody's so wigged out over it. Last semester threw far more curve balls, besides which I still maintain that doing everything via dimensional analysis is a bazillion times easier than memorizing a bunch of separate formulas. One method, works for everything. Yes, even titrations, so long as you understand what you're doing, which I gather is the problem in several situations. A couple of classmates said they may stop in to work on dosage stuff together, which would be cool. Hopefully, either they can help me see wtf is so intimidating about it that everyone is freaking out and I'm apparently missing or else I can help them see that it's the same old stuff just looked at a bit differently.
Managed to get an H1N1 shot last week. Last semester, the deal was that if the hospital we were doing clinicals at wouldn't vaccinate us, we wouldn't take their H1N1 patients. The hospitals aren't having that this time, and while the shot itself isn't yet mandatory (seasonal is), our options are get it or get fit-tested for N95 masks. Either or. So vaccinated people won't be wearing them apparently. Um, considering the rate at which viruses mutate, I'm a bit horrified at the idea I'm going to be wearing less protective gear solely on the basis of having had the vaccine. On the other hand, I am glad to have had it as I'm more than slightly surprised I've not caught the damned thing yet.
Babbling and procrastinating, yeah. Time to get my butt in gear. *waves*
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