Monday, June 30, 2008

My weekend

I had an opportunity to head down to Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia for the Indycar Series Suntrust Indy Challenge race. It was a pretty decent race. Personally, I don't really know much about cars, but I do like when cars race each other. I used to be a fan of NASCAR, before it became practically castrated of characters, and all the races became a four hour informercial. I remember an August night race some years back when Terry Labonte actually won a race at Bristol International Speedway in Tennessee, and Dale Earnhardt (Sr.) ran into his rear bumper on the last straightaway. Labonte crossed the start/finish line in first but had to drive into Victory Lane with a messed up front end of the car. As for the IndyCars, 26 cars started the race on a 3/4 of a mile track. I think this may have been too many. If it was 22 cars I think it would have been okay. Considering that much of the early part of the race was run under the yellow caution flag, I was thinking about going to the bathroom at some point in the race. I didn't get to and saw Tony Kanaan win. My friend Dan actually bought a Tony Kanaan hat that had his sponsor on it (7-Eleven), and Kanaan won. Guess it must be lucky for Dan since Tony is now his favortie driver. As for me, I just enjoyed to racing for the show, and it was pretty good. Some of my friends who also came down didn't like the race, but I think it wasn't their cup of tea. I did have a great time though, and I hope to upload some pictures I had taken while I was there.

Currently, I am doing a practice experencial program for my pharmacy school at Children's National Medical Center (http://www.cnmc.org/). I'll hope to put up my opinions on it sooner or later. I attend the Howard University School of Pharmacy in Washington, DC. Apparently, historically black universities can accept non-black students for their professional schools. I've already put up some opinions on that "institution". Right now, I need to get back to work. I might put up a new post later.

Monday, June 9, 2008

I hate Howard

It seems as though the Howard University School of Pharmacy finds new ways to fuck over students as much as humanly possible. When I went for my colloquium (which I figure I'm not going to go to during the summertime, more on that some other time), my dean of the school (acutally the assistant dean of the pharmacy school but whatever) comes in and mentions that out of 91 students currently taking the pharmacy practical experience program, about 7 are compliant with all of the medical requirement (vaccines, titers, physical exams, etc.). Naturally, I was pissed. I blurted out loud that this was unfair and then I get chewed out for being unprofessional. It would have helped if the pharmacy school would have informed us ahead of time if a student is medically cleared before going for their work experience program. But since this is Howard, Howard and coordination are comletely incompatible with each other. I did make an appointment with the Student Health Center. But it would have been better if I was informed ahead of time, instead of scrambling to get this shit done. Its the principal of the matter that counts, and the school was unprofessional in this case.

I might post later if I feel like it.