Well, almost.
I have a 4.0 in two classes and 3.8 in the other!!!
Can I just say how frickin
EXCITED and
PROUD of myself I am?
Completely!!
Do you remember my
posts from before the quarter started? I was scared out of my ever-lovin-mind! But
I survived that first day and I survived every day after.
On my Intro to Health Care final, I got 45 out of 50. On my Medical Terminology final I got 118 out of 122
(only 2 questions wrong!) and on my Human Body final I got 71 out of 83
(ugh! I was not confident for this test, at all!). Over all,
SO HAPPY!!!My overall GPA is 3.9333333
(you get the picture).
SO CLOSE to 4.0!! GAH!!
Anywho...
Do you remember me telling you about the loud, obnoxious guy that was in a study group with me? He became increasingly annoying and also a
MOOCH!!He "borrowed" money from a couple of the ladies in the group and never paid them back.
He asked one lady if he could have her coffee cup and then proceeded to basically beg another girl for her coffee that she'd brought with her
{in a thermos} right after. My friend
{Megan} offered *part* of her sandwich to him because she's just nice like that and he had
NO problem accepting it, which is fine...that was just the first instance of his moochy-ness.
We all learned our lesson with him.
He's taking Intro to Health Care this next quarter and I've just finished that class. He offered to buy my book from me
INSISTING that the college bookstore wouldn't give me as much for it as he would.
Now, I paid $68 for this
USED book. I was hoping to get at least $50 for it. Mooch offered me $40 and I wasn't sure what to say so I said,
"sure." Another friend
{Danielle} told me that she got $45 from the bookstore for her Intro book. I debated for over a week, and especially on Friday morning, if I was going to still sell it to Mooch for $40 or if I was going to lie and tell him someone had offered me $60. I didn't want to be a bitch
{or lie}, but I also wanted more for my book. I was going over my conflicted feelings about it with Danielle. When we finally saw him before our final on Friday, he asked me if I'd brought it for him to buy. I said that I had. He started in
again about how the bookstore wasn't going to give me more than he was offering and both my friends, Megan & Danielle, told him that I'd sell my book to him for $45. And when Mooch was getting rather insistent that I wouldn't get any more than $40 for it, Danielle yelled at him and said that she got $45 for her book at the bookstore. I felt kind of bad for him, but he was just being an idiot. So he was like
"Ooookkkkk, $45 it is. So glad you brought your manager with you today!" LMAO!! I'm glad that they spoke up for me because I felt stuck since I'd already told him I'd sell it to him for $40. Ahhhh.
D-R-A-M-A!! I'm so glad that I have no other classes with him!
The new quarter starts on April 5th, but I think my classes start on the 6th since I've only got two classes and they're both on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We haven't been able to register for the externship yet. They're doing it different this next quarter and the instructors have to go through all of our paperwork first. Meaning, they have to make sure that we've taken all the pre-reques that are required, we've had all of our immunizations and we've passed our background check. Once that's all been OK'ed, then we'll register and figure out where and when that'll start and take place.
I ordered my scrubs, shoes, stethescope and
gait belt the other day. So excited. Is it weird that I'm excited to wear scrubs? LOL We have to wear them to class as well as to the externship. I bought two different "styles", I guess, of scrubs and I bought some "nurse" shoes. Wanna see? Ok, twist my arm...
{My Netbook screen isn't very big so I had to cut off part of the pictures...but you get the idea...and our color is Hunter Green.}
Cute? Sure, for scrubs. LOL
Getting my immunization stuff figured out has been a bit of a chore! A couple weeks ago, I called my doctors office to find out which shots I had gotten since I'd started going there, and when I had started going there. Come to find out, I started going to that doctor in October of 1999. And I've had
NO shots since then!
Crap!So, I had to call the hospital I was born at. I had to send in a letter requesting my immunization report from birth to October of 1999. It's now been probably three'ish weeks since I sent the letter and I've heard
NOTHING.Because I wasn't hearing anything from the hospital I asked my mom if there was
ANY CHANCE that she still had my immunization report and if so, if she knew where it was. Turns out that she
DID still have it,
THANKYOUGOD!! and she was able to find it and give it to me. Even if she hadn't had it, there's a blood test to find out if I have the antibodies for the different immunizations, but I'm trying to do this as inexpensively as possible.
The inconvenient thing is that when I was born, they didn't give the Hep B vaccination. So I have to get that. And it takes 6 months to get the whole series. Thankfully, I've had two MMR's already so I don't have to worry about that. But now I also have to get a tetanus shot because it's been more than 10 years since I've had one and I have to get the 2-series TB shots. And the worse part of all of this is that I have
NO INSURANCE so I have to go to the Health Department to get them and they charge you each time you go in plus the amount of the shots. It's going to cost me a couple hundred dollars to get up-to-date for school! Oh and because the Hep B takes 6 months to get the whole series, we can still start our externship with proof of having 2 done. But they have to be completed within a month of each other. And the externship is supposed to start on week 7 of the quarter so I'm a bit pinched for time! So much to do, so much to think about!
Whew!
That's my school update, I guess. Other things have been happening as well, but they'll have to wait for a another day.
