Rotations suck and other things.

It seems that Children's National Medical Center (hereafter abbreviated CNMC) really likes to torture Howard pharmacy students. It has been only recently that the student's got access to the intranet of the hospital network. I mean, they need to print out the reports on the patient's medications so they can participate in their treatment. At least, they are supposed to be learning how to treat patients. It seems as though CNMC is about as coordinated as Howard University, which is to say: never. My rotation there is more or less paper pushing or administration if you will. I've had to do some things that the hospital pharmacy basically pushes onto whoever comes in to work with them. It sucks, it sucks badly. At least I've got two more weeks of this BS, and then I have August off. Considering I've had to wake up at about six in the morning, it'll be worth the month of doing nothing.

I was reading the Washington Post Express periodical, and it seems that tweens (those between 11 and 14 years old) are not only dating, some of them are in abusive relationships. I think that's way too young to be dating and stuff. Think about it, these kids (and honestly, they are still kids) are bedding each other. What next? Kids having sex by the time they hit kindergarten? But what really pisses me off is that, apparently these kids have cell phones. Now what's so bad about that? I don't know if these kids will be responsible enough to learn cell phone etiquette (actually, a lot of people don't have cell phone etiquette, but that's a topic for another time). I remember when mobile phones were about a big as a lunch box. Nowadays, they are about as wide as the index and middle fingers of a normal human hand. Kids could be text messaging in class and I'm sure that would piss teachers off. Pretty soon, land lines will go the way of the dodo bird. But, kids that young should not have cell phones. When I was in high school, it was prohibited from bringing them to school. It should be that way right now but it probably isn't. At least if they had an iPod with them, it wouldn't be as bad. But it would have to be the iPod nano, the regular iPod would have me looking at them and thinking "Jeez, their parents must be loaded".

Time to go, but I shall return.

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.