taking a break from studying I decide to blog about st ...
life of a pharmacy student is very simple. Beside some social occasions, we tend to spend our time studying or working. It is true that many of my classmates work (myself included). though some work in related fields, some don't. It's just a matter of reference, I supposed.
Very soon, we will set out to start our first rotation in the summer. I don't know what to expect. I have never been to a hospital pharmacy (not counting the time I need to pick up prescription). Hospital pharmacies I guess will be very different from regular retail pharmacies. The pace will definitely different. Formulary will also be different. (google can't recognize the word formulary!) :)
Anyway, it should be an exciting adventure. Before I can enjoy it though, I need to get over the next two weeks... of exams.
After a week of more or less relaxing (and obviously, none of us take advantage of that), we will be staying up all night until the wee hours to study for our finals in less than 4 days...
What a semester... up and down, up and down.. in the end it's the effort that counts. we have all come all the way until now, we can't give up yet, can we? :)
Good luck to you all! :)
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
another post
as much as I try to keep up.. things get delayed once in a while.
Things have started to slowing down recently because finals are coming. It's so hard to imagine that our first year is coming in to an end so fast. I have been in school again for another year and sometimes I wonder whether it is the right decision. As of now, I think it is. As of tomorrow, I don't know.
I still love new things everyday in class. I enjoy some classes more than others, who wouldn't? I can't enjoy all my classes as people would expected.
Therapy is becoming more bearable. Biochem not so much, I hope I can survive this class. I just can't understand the test questions or what is being asked. I understand life is not black and white... but sometimes teachers need to understand... their questions are ambiguous and they are no ways testifying the students' knowledge. I like dynamics as much as pharmaceutics. They are interesting topics. Contemplating taking more classes about that.
Life in pharmacy school has been good so far. Compared to other professional students, we might have an better study-life balance. We still get to do stuffs even though exams are next week.
Very soon I will become a rising PY2.
Time fly!
Things have started to slowing down recently because finals are coming. It's so hard to imagine that our first year is coming in to an end so fast. I have been in school again for another year and sometimes I wonder whether it is the right decision. As of now, I think it is. As of tomorrow, I don't know.
I still love new things everyday in class. I enjoy some classes more than others, who wouldn't? I can't enjoy all my classes as people would expected.
Therapy is becoming more bearable. Biochem not so much, I hope I can survive this class. I just can't understand the test questions or what is being asked. I understand life is not black and white... but sometimes teachers need to understand... their questions are ambiguous and they are no ways testifying the students' knowledge. I like dynamics as much as pharmaceutics. They are interesting topics. Contemplating taking more classes about that.
Life in pharmacy school has been good so far. Compared to other professional students, we might have an better study-life balance. We still get to do stuffs even though exams are next week.
Very soon I will become a rising PY2.
Time fly!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Stress.. unemployment... unrelated to pharmacy again
What the world that we live in...
Almost every week we hear about people die because of stress and unemployment.
We all face difficulties in our life and it has become more apparent that stress can make people do things that they don't normally do.
Over the past months, I have read news about normal family man killed his family. Unhappy man killed people where his wife worked. Angry immigrant became a killer that took life of more than 10 people. I wonder what I would be life had they learned how to cope with stress?
Some people are born to be able to handle stress better than others. I am not. I have to learn how to handle stress through practice. Last semester was extremely stressful. Losing an important person in my life in the middle of the semester was very hard. I lost my focus once in a while and it took a lot of effort to get them back. I did stress out over test but I also did tell myself that I would try my best in whatever it is and we will see what would happen.
We sometimes create stress for ourselves by prioritizing things. It is not bad to prioritize things but putting them in the wrong orders can be dangerous. If money is the most important thing on the list, losing a job would be detrimental to the people who now lost their only incomes. If having a family is the most important in the list, losing a wife or a child might detrimental to one's mind.
Our action is not defined by our reaction to our external environment. We tend to react to whatever come to us. And yes, sometimes it is just an instinct reaction. We might have thought it is not an instinct but it is.
My sympathy goes out to people who have lost their loved ones as well as those who have lost their life. We always want things to be different but sometimes things are not going the way we want them to go.
Be well you all
Almost every week we hear about people die because of stress and unemployment.
We all face difficulties in our life and it has become more apparent that stress can make people do things that they don't normally do.
Over the past months, I have read news about normal family man killed his family. Unhappy man killed people where his wife worked. Angry immigrant became a killer that took life of more than 10 people. I wonder what I would be life had they learned how to cope with stress?
Some people are born to be able to handle stress better than others. I am not. I have to learn how to handle stress through practice. Last semester was extremely stressful. Losing an important person in my life in the middle of the semester was very hard. I lost my focus once in a while and it took a lot of effort to get them back. I did stress out over test but I also did tell myself that I would try my best in whatever it is and we will see what would happen.
We sometimes create stress for ourselves by prioritizing things. It is not bad to prioritize things but putting them in the wrong orders can be dangerous. If money is the most important thing on the list, losing a job would be detrimental to the people who now lost their only incomes. If having a family is the most important in the list, losing a wife or a child might detrimental to one's mind.
Our action is not defined by our reaction to our external environment. We tend to react to whatever come to us. And yes, sometimes it is just an instinct reaction. We might have thought it is not an instinct but it is.
My sympathy goes out to people who have lost their loved ones as well as those who have lost their life. We always want things to be different but sometimes things are not going the way we want them to go.
Be well you all
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