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- Jul. 4th, 2009 at 10:55 PM
Been kind of busy, had a couple of job interviews, the one at Di Bruno Bros went well and they are going to call me to go in for another one sometime. Haven't been doing much else, I want to find a place to swim around here this summer, or go to the beach this summer, it's been so hot recently. Still have more but I might do that later...
Edit: And they have something really loud going on upstairs, and they're being loud...still better than the apt below me, not sure if there's anyone in that one anymore, haven't seen anyone in there or going in and out for a while. Trying to drown out the sound from upstairs now...not sure how much longer I'll be up though.
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- Jun. 10th, 2009 at 8:57 PM
I'm also kind of getting my information on my own, since we have fieldwork 2 students as our supervisors, and we're mostly observing them. So I guess it's good since in some situations and jobs I'd have to get my own information and take on my job without much supervision or direction. And I guess there are some people I would find it easier to work with than others, depending on the people or the diagnosis. It's also been good to practice the notes and documentation stuff we learned about, it's cool to apply some of the stuff we covered in class.
Today I didn't see the other students who are there with me much, we came in later and stayed later. Wonder if they'll change our schedules tomorrow and Fri also like they did today. I was thinking one of them might have gone home, she lives close to where we're doing our fieldwork now. Should get to see them tomorrow and Fri, it's fun having other students with me there, since we get to be together when we're on breaks and stuff. It's busy but I like it, keeps me occupied and I don't know what I'll be doing during the summer, I guess keep looking for work and stuff like that.
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Jun. 9th, 2009
- 8:21 PM
( Belmont )
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- May. 31st, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Still want to look over my psych notes and also maybe in the book so I have an understanding of the different disorders before I get there. Not sure if I'm going to go out there before I start either though I feel like I want to see how long it takes before the first day. Although in June I don't have a pass so I'd have to pay for tokens. I already got tokens for next week and the week after but not any extra.
We only have two more days of classes and then our test, and then fieldwork the week after. It should be interesting, the psych part of the class (at least this teacher's part) was interesting. Then on Wed and Thurs I think I'll go back to the glasses store to check out the prices and also drop off my applications at the coffee shops, not sure what else. Also have to study for Fri, should do that soon. And go over my notes for fieldwork, and I'm thinking of going to the gym 4 times a week, every other day, more when I'm free or I can put it into my schedule.
May. 30th, 2009
- 8:56 PM
Not sure what I'm doing tomorrow, thinking I will go to the gym tomorrow but don't know what else. We have our class on Mon and Tues this week and then our test on Fri, and next weekend I think we're planning to go out for another friend's birthday, I won't stay out the whole time, but it should be fun. Not sure when we would do the game night for my other friends birthday but we'll see. Both would be fun, usually fun when I've gone out with them. Also maybe I will see if any of them want to see the new Disney/Pixar movie...
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- May. 24th, 2009 at 12:08 PM
The older adult class might not be as hard, since it will be like this one, with the three different teachers, so with two of them it should be pretty good. All of the people I've talked to can't stand our third teacher for that class, I wonder if anyone will go and talk to the person in charge of the dept/program...
The one class is over, so now we just have this adult course to focus on, though I do kind of just want to get everything done. The fieldwork stuff will be cool though, especially since I'll be at the same place as the teacher I like. Looking forward to that, but we still have a portfolio due, and we still need the instructions for it, and a final test, the access survey is pretty much done. I guess we're almost done with the coursework. We have two more weeks of the class and then our fieldwork, should be fun. I still haven't heard back about the fieldwork either but it took him a while to respond to people about their participation grades...
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- May. 22nd, 2009 at 8:19 PM
It would still be interesting to go over especially his part to see what the answers were, and also the first part since I did better than I thought I would. I guess I did do well and I felt like I knew the material going into it. Would be interesting to see though. I did email this teacher to see if we could go over them, and also about my next fieldwork placement since I'm where he works. Not sure about the participation grades from the other class though, it could be that the other teacher did them, the one who we had at the end of the course.
And we were (or people were) talking about her last night, talking about this test, and I did think it was hard and that I did worse. I guess this is what happened with the others in the other classes when they thought they did worse than they did. But I'm just happy about this, now I don't have to worry as much, these tests are worth 30% of our grade. I guess now we just have this test in the fall that apparently everyone fails, but if it's like this one, maybe it won't be that bad, or maybe it's harder...
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- May. 22nd, 2009 at 3:19 PM
Maybe I'll write more up later, it was fun though. Ran into another friend from our class while we were out, hung out with him for a little...
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- May. 19th, 2009 at 7:15 PM
Looking forward to it though I don't know the specifics yet. I was thinking about my two placements so far, CHOP for my first one and now Belmont as my second, and both are good. Wonder where I'll be for the third one and where others will be. And for fieldwork II but I was talking to someone else in my class who thought we would just get put wherever. That could be the case, I think the coordinator looks at our location and stuff like that for the fieldworks, but some people travel to get to their places and stuff. I'm thinking it might be nice to be close to here for fieldwork II, wouldn't have to be up as early, and wouldn't have to travel far, stuff like that. I guess in any location I'll be unsure of stuff, so I'll learn too. I still want to go over the psych stuff before the next fieldwork too. Thought about going out there one day too before I start to see how long it takes, maybe I'll do that next week when we have a day off if I can. It was fun in those classes, and doing this case study, it will be interesting to see people with these conditions and see what is done in treatment.
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May. 19th, 2009
- 4:43 PM
Still looking forward to fieldwork I, although I was thinking about it this morning, and I'll have to get up really early that week. And I thought maybe it's good to do this fieldwork at this time, since it's just a week, and we won't have classes and I can just focus on that, and also I'll just have to observe and stuff. Not sure how it would be for three months doing it, so I can see how I like it and what it's like. Still should be interesting.
And this past weekend or few days we've had off I've been going around handing applications in or looking for jobs, and I went to the T bar and the Marriott gift shop on Mon to hand in applications, and the woman from the T bar called me back. I'm going over to interview there tomorrow, so that will be good. I was hoping I would get something there, it has good hours and I like tea drinks and seems like a good fit. I guess I'll be working a lot over the summer, not sure what else. Making money and hanging out I guess.
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May. 15th, 2009
- 3:59 PM
Hopefully I can find something soon, and something I like, at least for the summer which would keep me busy and also I'd get some extra money. I feel like I'm pretty much done with my part of our case study and the other people in my group are still working on their things, so I guess we'll get it put together and everything later this weekend and see what we have for Tues.
Grades from that test still weren't posted, I'm thinking they might be on Mon. Also I haven't emailed my teacher about our fieldwork I which I want to do soon. Maybe on Mon also. We're going to our fieldwork places in like a month so I guess they'll let me know when to be there and stuff. Still thinking I'll go over my psych notes and look in the book before I start. Hoping to see a lot during that week, should be interesting...
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- May. 14th, 2009 at 11:16 AM
The splinting grades are up, so we have those and clinical conditions and professional concepts. I did really well in splinting, and also professional concepts although everyone probably got about the same grade in that class. It's just these teachers, or one teacher, the test questions are hard and I guess next time I'll really study all the different things we go over. Can't really do anything about it now...
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end of the first year
- May. 13th, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I was thinking about this other test we just had, it should be ok because we still have a lot of assignments due so if I do well on those it should average out. And everyone was saying they felt the same way, and apparently last year in the fall course (our second year) there's a test everyone failed...I guess even with the two teachers materials on it, that makes sense. I'll just focus on the stuff we have coming up. After the test on Mon though everyone was talking and we still have those course evaluations to do, and one person was saying he's going to be adding sheets of paper to the evaluation...we'll all probably end up writing similar things about one teacher too.
Not looking forward to part of the fall class, but I like 2 of the teachers that are going to be teaching it, I wonder how long we spend on each topic and what the different topics are that we learn. Although the research and management courses don't sound very interesting, although management is with the teacher I liked when he did the psych stuff...
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- May. 13th, 2009 at 5:53 PM
The class today was good, our teacher did get our fieldwork placements for our next fieldwork I for June. I and two others are at Belmont which is where one of our teachers works, so that will be cool. I'm looking forward to that. The teacher would talk about it and some of the patients and stuff, so it will be interesting to see it in person. Also I've never seen a psych hospital so that will be interesting to see, and also what the OTs actually do there. It will also be nice having some other students there, so I can see what they think of it and stuff. Wonder who's going there next semester if anyone does and if people go there for fieldwork II.
Although now I'm thinking about what I'd do for my fieldwork II, I guess I'll see, I've liked my two fieldwork placements so far. Others are going to different hospitals or rehab settings or psych settings, should be interesting now that we're going to see adults. I'll have to go back through the psych stuff we learned, maybe even the different conditions too, and now I can check out their website as I've wanted to do. I guess now I'll see if I like psych and if I could see myself doing it, it's sounded interesting when this teacher would talk about it.
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May. 12th, 2009
- 2:53 PM
I'm thinking of asking if we can see the tests we just took on Mon, at least the second part with the teacher I do like, we can probably do that if we go to their office which I'm thinking about doing. Then we do have the case study and other stuff coming up in this class.
And the test and checkout today were pretty easy I thought, I'll do well in this adult class although I'm not sure how I did on this last test. But a lot of us were waiting for a while to get in, it was actually kind of funny what some people said...I guess they were talking about things they could do-"buy groceries, sew a quilt," stuff like that. Trying to think of the other stuff too. Now I'm not sure what I'll do with these splints...
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- May. 11th, 2009 at 10:06 PM
So for this one, the groups have different people but some of us have the same one. So we did the ITP (individual team treatment plan) and we also have our assignment to write up, and these progress notes which I'm having a hard time with. I think it's because we just make stuff up, so I'm not sure what to write for it. It'd be easier if we had an actual person and could see something going on. And there's not much information in the description of the person, so it's a little hard to figure out what to write on them.
I definitely think it would be interesting to see what it's like at a psych hospital or in a psych part of a hospital; I haven't really seen people with mental disorders before. I kind of have through people I know but that's different. Though I think there are people with some disorders it would be hard to work with. The fieldwork coordinator tries to put everyone in some psych setting though at some point, which is probably good so then we get to see what it's like. I'm still not really sure exactly what I'd be doing with those clients though. Still looking forward to some parts of next semester, and some others not but then we're almost done. This program goes by fast.
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May. 11th, 2009
- 6:26 PM
And our test on Fri was with her, and a lot of people didn't do well, so maybe they would do something if everyone doesn't do well? I also was thinking about seeing if I could see the answers to the test we took today, at least on the second part with the teacher I like. Stuff about what is going on if the person is doing or not doing a certain thing, etc. I am kind of disappointed we don't have this teacher anymore until the fall, but we will have him for part of the older adult course and for management which I'm not sure about. Wonder what that's like, the course itself doesn't sound interesting...
But after the test this morning I went with a few people to Kevyn's restaurant, they wanted to get a drink, so that was fun. We ended up getting back to the class late but it was ok, and I guess they were kind of drunk or so since they had margaritas and took a shot before we left. And the ride back was fun. The people in my class are fun, I do like being in this year with these people. I forget if I wrote a post a while ago about the teachers in this program, that might be fun...
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May. 7th, 2009
- 4:13 PM
I do like the teacher we're going to have again soon, and we'll have all these teachers again next semester, but I will miss these classes. Like now I can see how the ideas relate to life, and to myself and stuff like that which is cool. I like the interaction and the style of teaching a lot more. And I'm still interested in seeing these things in practice, so now I'm happy I told our fieldwork coordinator I might be interested in mental health, I've heard a couple other people are too, so it will be interesting to see how it turns out. I know there are a lot who talked about stuff like hand therapy, or some people are going back to where they're from, and I've thought about that. It will be interesting getting experience in different areas to see what I like and don't like. And it would be interesting if I did end up going into psych eventually, which could happen. I guess I'll see, and I can work in one area for a while and move around to other areas in the field which is nice.
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Cinco de Mayo
- May. 5th, 2009 at 9:22 PM
We do have him again in the fall although I'm not sure how much, but that will be good. And I wonder where we will get put for our fieldwork, the rest of our fieldwork I and our fieldwork II. And I'm not sure exactly how it works, but we have a research class next semester and we work in groups with a professor, I'm not sure what else we do but I'll find out. I think the teachers come in and talk about the areas they are working on and we pick, although it does seem like a lot of us will pick the same teachers for it.
And I'm now thinking psych seems like an interesting area, or I'd like to see it at some point since it does seem different than physical medicine and I don't have experience with it. Oh and I'm thinking about who is going to be in next years class, and how my class will be the second year class, and I want to get to know the people in the new class, and maybe do something like what the current second year class did with us...and I was trying to remember what classes we had in the fall...our first year is almost over and then we only have another semester before our fieldwork...
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May. 4th, 2009
- 3:25 PM
I'm happy these courses are over, especially since we don't have this one teacher until next semester, and she's teaching part of the older adult course and I think that's it. Apparently for research we are in groups and pick a professor to work with, so I started thinking about who I would pick, and I wonder who people would pick. There could be a lot of us picking the same people and not picking the same people, so we'll see. It's good though we still have some of the professors next semester since I like them...
And tomorrow I think my friends from school and I are still going out after class, hopefully from class because then I'll go for cinco de mayo, to this place in Manayunk. I guess I'll get work done tonight, and Wed I have time, and Thurs. Not sure what I want to do this weekend, I'm going home for Sun for Mother's Day but Fri and Sat I'm not sure. Maybe I can watch the Phillies games? Go out Fri night and watch?
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