To Do List

In the months before this program begins, the program coordinator has sent all the students an informative email with important dates, a tentative schedule and all the requirements we must fulfill prior to our start date.  I quickly made my own to-do list, as I like to cross off my completed tasks.  This list has included registering for a parking permit, my student ID card, getting a drug screening, FBI fingerprinting and a child abuse background check.  I am had to take a CPR course through the Red Cross.  (That was a very beneficial course and I learned a lot…this is, of course, after I got over the hilarious fact the two instructors could have totally had their own SNL skit.  Picture Cheri Oteri and Will Ferrell; add 30 years and some arthritis mixed in with bad hearing. They were awesome!) I also ordered my stethoscope and blood pressure cuff.  When I picked them up at the meet and greet, it all of sudden became that much more real.  I will be using these tools on actual people!  Deep breath.  Of course, all these little tasks cost money and it is quickly adding up!  I just received my textbook list for the summer.  Good-bye money and hello more anxiety!  Slowly but surely I keep crossing off items one by one, with just a few more to go! 

20 days until I begin.