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It’s past 24 hours when I saw this on Facebook and no one has reached out nor confirmed if this is the same patient I extracted blood from for transfusion last January 08. Even my direct supervisor hasn’t replied to me yet to confirm if this was my patient. It’s just all the details posted here matched the details of my patient.
This has been bugging me since the moment I did the phlebotomy, while processing his blood and after. Iniisip ko kung ano gagawin ko if magpositive ‘to. I can’t believe nagpositive nga!!! Now that it happened, I don’t know what to do.
To say I’m scared is an understatement. Results only came out on the 14th but the specimen was collected on January 8. What if he was already highly infective at that time? Considering the onset of illness was January 6???
I wore PPE, a combination of surgical mask + N95 and a faceshield. Was it enough to protect me???
Except the fact that there is a wooden divider from the regular ward, the patient’s room was nowhere near from being isolated because the window was wide-open (I can see the road en route to Cathedral). Were the nearby residents aware that a COVID Ward is in front of their very own residences? The virus must have already fled and mixed with the wind already since the patient wasn’t wearing a mask due to oxygen (at the time of my extraction). The relative was also just wearing a cloth mask by the way and my workmate said the relative was walking freely inside the hospital.
I always do proper handwashing. Is this enough to protect me?
Yesterday, I felt something in my throat. I can’t account it because my throat is normally dry. Today, as of writing, my head is throbbing like it’s being cracked open. I remember seeing a post before that it was also a symptom. When I told my mom, she said it’s probably just psychological… which I pray it’s just it.
Tik… tok…
Bakit wala pa rin nagre-reach out? Nasaan ang contact tracing? Maghihintay pa ba ako ng ibang symptoms?
The hospital is nowhere near from being equipped and ready to handle COVID19 cases yet you all pushed for it.
If I am positive… This is all on you, CNPH.
Edit: My boss confirmed it’s the same patient.
Not to be whiny but it just saddens me whenever I see posts from Batch 2019 wherein they were being hyped up by the Dean as they review for the board exam. I know I should move on but I juuuuust can’t help but feel… jealous?
How does that feel?
How does it feel like not being looked down upon?
How does it feel like not being constantly reminded how lacking you are and doubt yourself if you are capable of taking the September boards every minute?
I can never forget the struggle and pain my batch (or I alone… but I doubt it’s just me) had to go through emotionally when it was us, reviewing last year. I mean who would forget that time when we were yelled at (and embarrassed) by her whilst those students who were reviewing for PAMET-PASMETH Quiz Show sat in our review classes? I remember her telling them to “"tell your batch mates to review harder as early as this day so as to not end up like this batch during board review”“. I can clearly remember when she told us how our batch is "just an average batch” so we had to triple our efforts. How many times we were reminded how excellent previous batches were compared to us? I lost count. Earlier during the review, she was so ecstatic claiming a Top 1 Performing School but during the latter months… she just “hoped and prayed for the best”. That’s how they just lost faith in our batch. We also received news from friends from other review centers how the Dean told everyone that no one would take the boards from TUA. Not sure how true though. When the results came out, they thought it was just “a strategy” to surprise everyone. Little did they know, she just doesn’t want anyone to expect so high from us and be disappointed in the end. Last but not the least, I will never forget that time when our Academic Head talked to us and cried, almost begging, just so some of us wouldn’t take the board exam because they don’t trust as fully.
But of course, maybe we were just really slow and average. Numbers don’t lie right? But I had to defend, we never lacked effort. We did the best we can do individually.
Taking into account the three important things the college was coincidentally facing when we took the boards. We had to garner 100% to:
1) Maintain the Level III PAASCU Accreditation.
2) Maintain the Masters in Medical Technology in TUA.
3) Maintain the International Clinical Internship Program.
Apparently, these are more important than our batch’s self-esteem and mental health… but that’s okay, it’s in the past already anyway meow. Everyone passed and we were blessed to be able to bag a Top 1 Performing School recognition… and they were suddenly proud ha ha (okay I know I know who wouldn’t?) but the emotional scars we got just to reach that??? it won’t go away. Very dramatic but it really won’t… at least for me.
They said we needed that much pressure for us to strive harder. “Pressure makes diamonds”, they said. Ha, look at me! Do I look like a diamond? I actually became a mess after I passed the boards and got my license. I suddenly didn’t know what to do with my life looool
Reviewing for boards while living alone? It’s no joke! I had no one to talk to. Remember the nights I had to cry and ask myself if I am worthy to take September boards, self? I literally almost didn’t because of the immense pressure I felt! There came a point where I already told my mother I’m not taking the boards and was ready to go back to Bicol had people from Student Affairs Center did not talk me out of it.
Nonetheless, my alma mater did not lack in honing our skills and further our theoretical strengths… they even went to greater extents just to ensure we know everything… to the point that it’s taking toll in our mental health. That’s what they lacked, is all I can say.
I’m not sure where this post is going. This is just me pouring what I feel.. in raw and at the spur of the moment. Probs like my version of “felt cute, might delete later”; mine would be “felt mad, might delete later”. I don’t know if I’m making any sense, I’m probably exaggerating and plainly whining but I really felt the need to vent. You wont probably understand anyway if you didn’t experience it yourself.
Anywayyyy, I’m hoping for the best to Batch 2019! Wouldn’t say anything that would pressure anyone because I know first hand, it won’t help but I hope and am praying y'all finish strong! Never let external voices get into you. Always remember that you are taking the boards for yourself… not for anyone or for anything. Everything else is just an incentive!
PS: we only had an In-House Review.
Yesterday, while I was wrapping up the cross matching I was doing, my senior told me there’s a “PCV patient”. Couldn’t hear it clearly at first so I just shrugged it, thinking he was just telling it just because. Then he asked me if I wanted to bleed the patient; turns out it was the P C V as in Polycythemia Vera, a low-growing blood cancer in which your bone marrow makes too many red blood cells (© Mayo Clinic) and it was her schedule for Therapeutic Phlebotomy.
Had to check her CBC result and it really matches the theoretical criteria of the disease. Her blood was indeed thick!!! Yikes, I miss Hematology.
Okay, I had to post it!!! Can’t believe I was only reading/ hearing from my clinical instructors/ imagining this case two years ago and now, I just encountered it irl!!! Again, every day is a new learning experience!
2018 was totally my year! I’m so glad to have received so many blessings in just one year. Here’s a little rundown of the ride I have had in 2018. A little late but here it is anyways! 💗
Internship kills dreams
I was never one of those kids whose wings were cut by their own parents before anyone else could. Mine never interfered with what career path I wanted to take and rather tirelessly supported me with big proud eyes which surely is something I am truly thankful for in this lifetime. Being a doctor has been a childhood dream and I have come in terms with its long process as early as Third Year High School. From then on, I already decided to take up Medical Technology as pre-medicine course which was also supported by my NCAE result.
The almost four and a half years I have dragged myself to school as an undergrad was a sweet memory; I experienced transferring schools because I felt like the former wasn’t doing the job properly and I wanted to be the best version of myself as a then future Medical Technologist which the latter did in all its effort and capabilities; I left the province, braved the big skirts of Metro Manila and lived alone for four years just to seek my great perhaps. For four years, I have yearned for the three letters to be mine and made it my motivation. I did what every dreamer had to do… strive hard to reach my dreams. Every day is a life lesson and the more I have progressed as a student, the more I wanted to reach the zenith. Come clinical year, my excitement to work in the lab grew four times than the “basal levels” and even led me to a decision to practice the profession first before continuing the ambitious dream that I have.
“This will soon be over.”
“ All of these will be worth it in the end.”
“Remember why you started.” are just some of the many words that comforted me and brought back whatever hope I have lost whenever faced with a downfall. Long story short, I ardently pursued for the R, M and T.
I got my diploma. I also got my license but why do I feel afraid to even step foot in the laboratory which I have long dreamed of to work in?
“Didn’t you have your internship at ***? Why don’t you apply and work there?”. Many times I have been asked. I didn’t need to think twice why I never wanted and intend to. It’s always clear and fresh to me; the wounds that having my internship there gave me.
“It’s such a good hospital, why must you let an opportunity pass?” I can only cringe. As if like a reflex, I would always answer, “It’s not what you think.”
If you ask me what I have truly learned during my *drumroll* 1-Year Internship, it is to be wary of people. If you ask me what skill I have developed, it is to shut my mouth and keep my confusion and questions to myself because you’ll only get ridiculed, more so, get a demerit. If you ask me what moral lesson I took out of it, it is to watch out and to fend for yourself.
I always have my eyes open to the fact that the world and its people is not pure and could be evil. I also know that the workforce is a competitive realm that ‘weaklings’ have no space in. But I never would’ve thought that I would get a taste of this bitter reality as early as the first day of internship and as if it’s not enough, throughout the entire year to conclude the supposed “on-the job training” with my dreams torn to pieces. There, of course, were good times and good people. I can never thank all of them for making the seemingly hell of a year bearable. But the bad seem to have overpowered the good ones that when weighed, the scale would fall to the side of the bad in a jiffy. It’s emotionally draining and petrifying that there came a point that the only thing that made me go to hospital duties is for it “to be over already”. Some did have similar experience as me and even tried to raise the matter but was dismissed and was told to just “let it slide”, “get used with it” and that it’s a “normal” thing in the lab. When I heard it, I was… scared? Isn’t internship a glimpse of the real thing? So does it mean, it’s what I were to face as I enter the profession? Do I also have to feel uneasy thinking what my colleagues talk behind me when I’m not around or be clueless about being roasted by someone who seems very friendly to me just how some of my then staff do to their colleagues? I remember so many people.
It’s tragic that I would be told that “it’s human nature”, it’s “normal” and I can’t do anything about it. Let me ask… why must we normalize evil? Why must we conform to people doing us wrong? Why must we feel wronged when we only want to learn? This long-running superiority issue that creates an internal discrimination in the healthcare, when will this end? Why instead of telling people to “get used with it” why can’t you be kinder? be more understanding that you were also once a junior who knows nothing?
The emotional trauma of getting yelled at in front of people at 6 am for not knowing what to do and for asking ‘too many questions’ on your FIRST DAY and be sent out; the feeling of being wrongly endorsed as someone you are not because of your senior’s personal opinion about you which left me nothing but discomfort and could only wish the six months would fly by in a blink; the feeling of being blamed for something grave as not exactly getting a timed-blood collection when you are not even allowed to extract in the first place or even as ridiculous as forgetting to NOT say “po” which you have been grown used to as you age just because some higher-ups didn’t like being addressed as such and many more have scarred me that when I am asked to fill-out three job position preferences, working as a Medical Technologist in Pathology Laboratory would be on the third spot or even not included. At present, I am currently trying out other careers I could make out of being a Registered Medical Technologist because I was too scared yet to be a real “medtech”.
I know it’s not a guarantee that the same thing wouldn’t happen to the new career path I’m trying to steer. It could really be a “natural” thing in the workforce and that’s a sad reality I had to learn to gulp. But I am praying and hoping for the best that there’s more good than bad in this world. I don’t know how long the wounds would heal but I’m really wishing that there will come a time that I would fully get over my “fear” of the laboratory and revive my dream. And am praying harder that people would realize to think twice before doing things that may inadvertently internally crush someone. Also, I may have to use this time to reflect on myself and “be more mature and stronger” as some people say because maybe I am just weak-hearted who’s making a mountain out of a molehill. Apologies if these are all too natural for you. For me, it’s not. I can always shrug physical assault but emotional injuries drill holes deeper in the core. Of course, I can’t wait to get an opportunity to practice the profession I have ‘worked’ so hard for and be a nice senior to my juniors and interns so they won’t experience the same trauma I have long harbored which hindered me from taking a step forward this profession and hopefully prevent yet another dream to be killed.
You don’t have to argue with me if your internship experience was bomb and I sound ridiculous to you… that, I can only envy you.
HI GUYS!!!! Oh my, it’s been a looooooong while. I actually went through my blog and re-read everything and I’ve noticed that I was always saying how “I don’t know what to and how to do blogging anymore” in most of my previous posts but I PROMISE THIS TIME, I LEGIT DON’T KNOW WHAT TO WRITE OR HOW DO I DO THIS ANYMORE because I haven’t done this for like forever. It felt like I’m starting again!!! Okay sige, I’m not gonna babble more. Let’s just hop right into my post.
Okay, so as what I’ve mentioned on my previous posts, I’ve entered Third Year or the Medtech proper last school year 2016-2017 and that’s (also) the reason why I was gone for a very long time. Idk, I just found myself being swallowed by acads and all that jazz that I never really had the time to write a single blogpost. There’s so much that has happened in my entire Third Year life and I wish I could’ve had written any of’em and immortalize the memories on this blog and hark back to those times… but sadly, I didn’t. Anyway, as you can probably tell on the title, this post would be a “rundown” of my experience as a Third Year Medical Technology student.
(Wait, how do I start?)
We started the school year earlier than the normal students in our university due to the reason that we were trying to chase the schedule for the 1-year internship so everything would fit and we would end just right on time for the graduation (yikes chills) because as you all know, we are one of those pabibo schools who embraced the academic calendar shift. So the clinical subjects I took this year are as follows:
1st Semester
MIC111 – Bacteriology
PAR100 – Clinical Parasitology
GPHC100 – General Pathology, Histopathology and Cytopathology
CC111 – Routine Clinical Chemistry
HEMA111 – Hematology 1
MTLBE100 – Medical Technology Laws and Bioethics
LMS100 – Laboratory Management and Supervision
2nd Semester
MIC112 – Mycology and Virology
UBF100 – Urinalysis and Body Fluids (Clinical Microscopy)
HEMA112 – Hematology 2
SIM100 – Serology and Immunology
CC112 – Continuation of CC1/ Special Chemistry
CC113 – Endocrinology, Toxicology and Drug Testing
IMH100 – Immunohematology (Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine)
I can’t believe I already passed all these subjects let alone the first sem subjects!!!! Personally, I think First semester is harder than the Second Semester idk maybe because it’s the time when we were just and still adapting to the new and toxic environment of Third Year life and the transition is quite overwhelming. Also, the passing rate was raised from 60% in Second Year to 70% in Third Year. I CAN’T EVEN!!! Plus the laboratory practical exams had an upgrade to like 5x that of the Second Year pracs. There’s legit a time when I went back to my dorm during lunch break just to cry because of a practical exam and a fair share of tears were shed at nights when I have no idea how to fit and finish everything before the sunrise. Also there’s a day when, for the first time in my life, I called my mom after I got back in my dorm from school and cried for my dear life because EVERYTHING WAS SO HARD.
- It’s also during First Semester when I learned how essential it is to know the time difference from night (let’s say 7pm) to 5am the next day and how to utilize it very well because your life literally depends on how you manage and distribute it to sleeping and studying because you know, you’ll only have to read 1-3 chapters per subject and you only have like 3 quizzes the next day for the lecture and probably a practical exam or a long quiz for the laboratory in the afternoon. JUST HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PREPARE FOR THAT IN LESS THAN 10HRS???— is all I was thinking then. That’s how resentful and pitiful I was back then.
- We were taught the laboratory skills we need— Venipuncture (of course! the freaking highlight
and a must), Blood Smearing, Staining, Pipetting!! Oh God forbid, I loathe
glass pipetting so much! Direct Fecal Smear… and all medtech-y skills. I love
Bacteriology so much. It was the subject I got the highest grade during First
Semester. The lecture and laboratory were both the bomb.com. But ofc, I wouldn’t
forget the anxiety the Unknown has
given us. For our finals in the lab, we were given unknown organisms and we
were to identify it via Biochemical Testing and everything we were taught of on
how to identify such. It took me so long to decide what my organism was because
some of the biochemical test results weren’t at par with theoretical information
so imagine my anguish. Our grades basically depended on it so… yeah.
but in the end, I decided it was Enterobacter cloacae.
- Another memory from First Semester is the time when we were to submit Enterobius swabs as additional points for our Parasitology laboratory. I took my bestfriend with me to hunt down possible patients. It was such a memorable experience, I have no more words. I poured all the feels on this Facebook post.
- Also, I’ll never forget about First Semester is the day when we had our Grand Practical Exam in our laboratory subjects and it was the time when 3rd Floor HSC was in a total dishevelment. We were taking turns and rotating in different labs to have our moving practical exams simultaneously— one section is having their Histopath moving pracs, the other is having their Bacte moving pracs, then another section is on the roil in Hematology moving pracs while the other one is having their Parasitology Moving Pracs and the like. That was the most intense day ever imaginable.
- Also on that day, was the first time I was able to extract blood on a practical exam!!! I can never forget how stupid I may have looked for shouting “Hala may dugo” when blood oozed out from my partner’s vein. I was never able to bleed my partner in almost all the practicals we had due to my infamous phobia with needles and I was legit surprised and awed when a blood came out that day!!!
For the events of Second Semester… I’m not really sure?? lol even though it’s the more recent semester, I can’t remember much from it coz it went like a blur to me. It was so fast it was so unreal that it actually happened!!! (and that I passed!)
- Okay. One thing I could say about Second Semester is that I fancy UBF hahahaha I’m not sure if it’s the subject itself or teacher factor hahahaha but to be honest, it was so fun to study and probably the easiest of the panel of subjects for second semester (or so I thought).
- The
laboratory learning and insights this semester gave me more of the medtech
feels because most of the experiments/tests we did in the lab were the ones
that are being performed in the actual laboratory setting. I will never forget
the struggle of dilution in Serology lab. We aren’t allowed to use calculators
during the entire semester and of course as someone who absolutely hates math
and computation, that’s. the. worst. nightmare. ever. So given that situation,
imagine our surprise during the Final Laboratory Written examination when our
instructor finally allowed us to use calculator. Everybody in the class was in
awe because that’s super unexpected. We didn’t have much of moving practical
exams this sem compared to the numerous ones we had on first semester. The
practical exams this time were more like skills-based and principle application. Slide
identification-kind-of-moving practicals was surprisingly nakakamiss.
Self-pity time: Two semester have passed and no one was able to extract blood from me huhuhu do I even have veins??? :——(
Just to give you some insight, there are:
- 4
major examinations in each lecture subjects
- 2
major written examination in each laboratory subjects
- (100-item identification)
- Moving
Practical Exam in each laboratory subjects
- Skills/Application
Practical Exam in each laboratory subjects
- Pre
and post quizzes in every meeting in each lecture subjects
- Pre
and post quizzes in every laboratory experiments
- Long
Quizzes every after chapter
- Long
Quizzes before major examination in each lecture subject
- Long
Quizzes before major examination in each laboratory subjects
- Surprise
quizzes whenever the professor would like
- Not
to mention the drawings of each specimen in laboratory manuals in each
laboratory subject
- 2 Journal readings in each lecture subject
So ayun, hindi po kami OA and nag-iinarte. Our lives literally revolve in exams and quizzes.
Moving on, last May 09, we had our Pre-Internship Program which is a prerequisite before you can proceed to the actual internship. On that exact day,we took a 700-item Diagnostic Examination without any notice and I literally just came back from an 8-hour trip because I went home in Bicol so I was sitting for like 14 hours straight!!! We had series of practical examinations for two weeks, a Phlebotomy seminar with BD Philippines, a tour in a National Reference Laboratory which is the National Kidney Institute and an Oral Revalida.
CAUTION: Photospam ahead.
I’m not sure if this is enough to summarize everything because I can feel that it’s not even in the slightest bit justified on this post. Maybe it’s one of the wonders of life that cannot be really put into words. (But you tried, self what are you doing hahaha)
Suffice to say that all these experiences; the nerve-racking and heartbreaking quizzes, no-sleep days, tears, sweats, blood (hahahaha legit), cramming moments and all other hardships are the variables which played significant roles in this endeavour which lead me to where I am heading right now. I’m so happy and proud to share to you guys the next step I’m taking in this career path. I am now officially a Medical Technology Intern at St. Luke’s Medical Center – Quezon City under the Institute of Pathology. I know, I can’t believe it myself that I was able to pass through the needle-hole like hurdle you call “Third Year life”. SLMC is actually my first-in since we are to undergo 1-year internship and we will be having our second-in next semester in another hospital.
I will be forever thankful to Trinity University of Asia especially to Dean Rodriguez for always making sure that the quality of education/ training is there. Thank you for a super hands-on laboratory experience and our very own DIagnostic Laboratory in the 4th Floor. It’s like a simulation of the environment that we will be facing in the near future. Would also like to thank our Clinical Instructors:
- Mam Majo
Liao
- Sir Jude
Anthony Trinidad
- Dra. Mary
Anne Isip
- Sir Mark
Francisco
- Sir Mel
Destacamento
- Mam Gigi
Dayrit
- Mam
Violie Bascao
- Mam
Suzzette Lumanga
- Mam Rona
Gonzaga
- Sir
Joshua Descamparado
- Sir
Nikko Onate
- Mam Krystal
Tio
for gearing us up with all the lectures, wisdom and skills that we would need to be the Medical Technologists that we are aiming to be.
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Other significant life events during the course of Third Year life:
- I became an Altar Server at the Shrine of Jesus the Divine Word. Hashtag dream come true.
- I was elected Medical Technology
Councilor in the University Student Council. Hashtag unreal.
All glory and praise to the Lord God above. Thank you for guiding me in almost everything I do. Thank you also St. Jude Thaddeus for interceding for me. Forever grateful and blessed.
That’s pretty much how I can sum up my Third Year life. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed writing it! Thank you so much for reading yet another long blog post of mine. See you on my next post (hopefully there’s a next)!!!
Hi guys! It’s been really long since I last talked to you. I think I aged just by calculating how long I have been MIA. To top it all, I absolutely honestly seriously don’t know how to do this anymore. I’ve also noticed that I lost some of you already and that’s sad. Anyways, I’m here to give you guys a short (?) update on my life lately and all that jazz.
As you can tell, I’m done with Second Year. The second semester was really— idk how to describe it but it really made me a fumbling mess. My subjects were slightly clinical and gosh, Basic Histology made me nuts. IT WAS SO HARD like I even had 4 as a midterm grade. GUYS THAT’S BELOW 75 WHAT THE HELL!?! Plus I have Biochemistry and Physics. These three subjects literally made me pray for my life. When it was the release of grades, I was really anxious because I feel like me and my grades were on a cliff because THEY WERE SO HARD I’M CRYING!!! I’m not kidding. I think my mother and I bet my friends were annoyed with my continuous blabs about me not passing the damned subjects. I also had Cytogenetics, Basic Pharmacology and Community Public Health. I only had Oral Communication and PE104 as minor subjects. (Well technically, Histo, Pharma and Cyto were also minor subjects in terms of units but THEY. ARE. NOT.)
BUT BY GOD’S WILL, I PASSED EVERY SUBJECT. Seriously, when I went to view my grades, my eyes went straight on searching for 5 and when I see none, I then searched for 3 BUT AGAIN I SEE NONE!!! I WAS LITERALLY AWED BECAUSE I WAS WHOLEHEARTEDLY ONLY ASKING FOR TRES BUT I GOT MORE. I honestly can’t believe how I was able to get those grades like seriously I thought I’d fail these three subjects. Up until now, I still can’t believe I passed Physics and Histology per se.
Then last
June 13, I had my summer slash midyear classes. As you guys all know, I didn’t
enrol last summer because my father was home so it is only this year that I got
to enrol myself in the required summer subjects. I took Sociology and
Philosophy of Man. It was really overwhelming because these two subjects are
the remaining minor subjects I had and I was like savouring everyday thinking
it would be the last aka the calm before the storm. The midyear classes ended last July 19 and
I actually went home in Bicol but I went back here again in QC last July 26
because I had to take our Battery Exam. Then, last July 28, we had our
Laboratory Exam. Is it bad that I felt so relieved because Sir Anthony wasn’t
the one who did Phlebotomy at me? Idk but there are students who keep on saying
their arm hurt so badly and a whole bunch of violent reactions. It scared me
because as you guys know (or not), I am scared of needles like I always pass
out whenever I get in touch with it. Lol I know it’s weird for a Medical
Technology student but when I donated blood, that’s only when I knew that a phobia certainly exists because the people from Philippine Red Cross told me so after having to
pass out twice after I donated
blood. I also had a few experiences years ago and I thought it was only because
of lack of sleep and hunger. Anyways, I brought a juice during the lab exam (as
per advice of the Red Cross people back when I had my “passing out” sesh during
the blood donation). I was drinking it before, during and after I had to sit
for the blood extraction. It was cool because it actually worked. I didn’t feel
nauseous at all.
Sooooo guys, in just few days, I’M FINALLY A THIRD YEAR STUDENT. As you guys know, I am supposedly graduating this school year if it wasn’t because of me transferring schools. Anyway, I have yet to take my Medical Examination on August 1 and the Values Seminar Workshop. I’m actually stoked and nervous at the same time because it’s already the MedTech proper and there’s no “minor subject” anymore. The price of the textbooks makes me cringe because they were all so pricey and I feel really guilty because I am going to eat a lot of my parents’ money this school year.
On a lighter note, I moved in to another dorm last April because I got fed up with my old dorm. It was so noisy in there that I had to wait for mid-night before I study because that’s only the time when everyone shuts up and it’s really discommoding for me because there’s a lot of time that’s being wasted. I also chose this dorm because it’s more quiet and serene and it’s a lot more spacious than my old room that I was able to create a little study nook. Plus there’s no Wi-Fi. I specifically like it because I chose to avoid myself from distractions because you know, when there’s internet, there’s YouTube and when’re there’s YouTube then there’s no sleep lol hash tag obsessed. I also wanted to tell you my developing obsession with medical dramas. I am so in love with House MD. I am already on the third season and it was so lit! Gregory House is a total goals. It was suggested by our Anatomy and Physiology prof during first semester and she told us she used to watch it while reviewing for the Physician Licensure Examination way back on her time. Also, Dra. Polido, my Cytogenetics professor last semester, kept on mentioning House during class discussions and imagine my delight. I was so giddy when I continued watching it after the second semester because EVERYTHING MAKES PERFECT SENSE. Thanks to histology, cytogen and pharma I can understand them… medically lol. I’m also watching I Heart You Doc and Doctors. Yep, both are Korean Dramas and they were sooooo good!!! I’d like to give special emphasis on Doctors. Yay, Park Shin Hye is bae. But I Heart You, on the other hand was underrated but it was actually very comprehensive like for me it’s a Korean version of House MD.
I also had my hair cut… yep not a trim but a cut after several years. As you guys know, I haven’t had a proper haircut since I graduated high school and that was on 2013. I decided to cut half of its total length and so far, I like it. It’s not short but is long enough for me to have it up in a ponytail. Did I already tell you that our department has implemented a rule that the girls are required to always have our hair in ponytail?
Also, I think I might be joining the #studyblr. I’ve been following this community since 2013 and it really looks promising. I’ve thought about this for a long time already and I haven’t tried because I have no courage. I’ve been making my notes in a #studyblr way for a long time and I think there’s no harm in finally engaging in it. My soon-to-be-posts are not the best one could see over the internet but hey, what’s there to lose if I try? lol I also wanted to try sharing my study habits in hopes of helping other students.
That’s pretty much it! I hope you guys enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. Oh, the photo above is my little study nook here in my dorm and I thought I’d share it to you guys. Hope you are all doing great at school as well as in your lives. See you on my next post, bye!
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