i'm in physical therapy school, which basically means i spend my life learning. constantly. there's always a test or a practical or a clinical or a something else that you'll feel dumb in if you don't know the answer. i study A LOT.
when i try to describe my particular situation to those outside of my department, they don't really believe me. they make a face like i told them i'm 6'5" and play for the denver nuggets and say something like,"there's no way you study that much" or "you have to go out sometime" or my favorite "no one studies on saturday night!" au contraire, my friend. welcome to my world.
don't get me wrong, we have a good time. i have met a group of wonderful people who make me laugh to the point of crying at least once daily. seriously--we are funny. and if you think jokes about overpressure are great, then you'd probably find us hysterical as well. someone should give us a reality show. i can see it now..... "true life: i'm in PT school." you think you know, but you have no idea. it'd be like grey's anatomy (minus the hot doctors) meets friends (minus all the guest stars) with a dash of survivor. dr. walker would naturally be cast in the jeff probst role. "the tribe has spoken, as they did it to vote it as to where we are in the jungle."
i digress.
and when i look back at how far i've come in the past 5 months, it's actually pretty incredible.................................. that i haven't failed out of school. no, in all seriousness, i have grown. and just so you don't have to go through the pain and suffering and emotional turmoil like i did, here are some tidbits i've been learning about lately.
1. it is possible to sleep with your eyes open.
2. normal range of motion for wrist flexion is 80 degrees. (normally this would be expressed in a pseudo-homosexual type voice......"ayyyyyyyy-ty")
3. the christian student center provides 2 dollars worth of lunchtime goodness every monday and wednesday.
4. i never make decisions, and that's not really a good thing.
5. catch phrase = hours of instant fun.
6. greenville, sc is a great city and i miss it a lot.
7. a semester can simultaneously fly by and drag on forever.
8. DO NOT leave your purse in your car.
9. california is a dumb state that keeps stealing all my favorite people. (same goes for london and mexico)
10. dr. dale has approx 5 "non-dr. dale" voices. (my personal favorite is "ah-nold")
11. distal attachment of the iliopsoas is the lesser trochanter.
12. i am hypermobile, hyperreflexive, and have terrible balance.
13. God's timing is different than we'd often wish, and it's hard to run a marathon when you've only trained for a 5K.
14. urbandictionary.com is the authority on key terminology such as fire hazard, facebook rape, and thousands of other gems i'll allow you to discover on your own.
15. you (unfortunately) never realize how lucky you are to have people in your life until they aren't there anymore.
16. the big chill = approach with extreme caution. it cannot be beaten and has claimed many victims.
17. the long thoracic nerve is commonly injured in a knife fight. (i swear, it's in my anatomy book)
18. hi, my name is danielle and i am a youtube addict.
19. courtesy of donald miller: life is not a story about me. (it sounds simple, but it'll blow your mind if you really think about it.)
20. life is short, and made shorter if you don't stop and enjoy it every once and a while.
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