April 2010

Stuff, Stuff, and More Stuff

  Since the semester is slowly coming to a close (still a few more weeks until finals), every week seems pretty crazy with group assignments, projects, presentations, and quizzes.  Also, since school isn’t free, we’re all in the middle of trying to get our Financial Aid stuff in order.  Most of us use subsidized, unsubsidized, and Graduate PLUS loans to pay for school and stay alive, and each year we have to re-fill out information and come to terms that we’ll be paying this off for many years to come (plus interest, of course. . . I wouldn’t want it any other way, right?) 

For a Neuromanagement assignment, 2 groups of 4-5 students were assigned to provide Physical Therapy to a volunteer patient (the majority were current/old patients from our faculty) with a neurological disorder (TBI, stroke, SCI, to name a few). For each patient, there were 2 groups, as this picture depicts, so as to have an oral discussion from a faculty "neuro panel" to talk about the different ways each group approached their particular patient.

  Although I don’t know much about the new bill President Obama passed recently about loans and education, what it means right now is the process is a little slower since the Financial Aid Office here is trying to transition from us “getting” our loans from our own lenders (mainly banks, such as Wells Fargo, US Bank, etc) to a centralized lender.  Not a big deal or anything, just new.  If only school was free.

Here we are posing right before the Easter Egg Hunt. Although Spencer made a quick dash towards the eggs, he wasn't quite sure what to do once he got to them.

  Other than that, not too much going on.  Easter, of course, was fun with Spencer.  He had a blast collecting Easter eggs at a park in the morning, painting eggs in the afternoon, and getting lots of candy the next morning.  We even had gotten that Friday off from school.  It was a fun weekend.

Here's a picture of the baby shower for one of our classmates, Dani. She's pretty close to her due date, but I think she's hoping to make it until finals. For those curious about our class, of the 54 students, 12 are married, 3 are currently engaged, 4 of us have kids (5 kids in total), and one soon-to-be mother. Good luck Dani.

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