Sadness and anger.

Recently, my friend George W. Quinn suffered a tremendous loss in his family. His mother, Janet, had been diagnosed not all that long ago with stage IV lung cancer. After hearing about the condition from my friend Dan, I had figured that George might want to start thinking about saying his goodbyes. Its not that I was trying to be a dick or anything, its just when that sort of cancer has hit that particular stage, it would take a medical miracle for her to pull through. Janet Quinn died this past Saturday. There was a blog that covered her treatment and eventual death located at this address: http://janetquinn.blogspot.com. Its sad what happened and her funeral (actually it more of a mass gathering because she was cremated) is supposed to be today. But that's not what pisses me off.

I would like to give a big fuck you to Howard University. Apparently, during rotations, a student has to show up for their thing no matter where their site is. I had recently contacted them about going to the funeral, and someone there basically said that I had to show up to my rotation site because the death was not in my immediate family. I would like to consider my friend's parents sort of like family, at least because I had worked for Safeway as a cashier and I would occasionally see them come through my line. But Howard policy states it has to be immediate family. I think I'm going to try to skip the rest of the day and show up anyway.

More later.

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.