Well that went fast. Way too fast. On the up-side I have a job I like and have learned a ton of things for it. On the downside, I'm going to be tested on those things in a week or so and need to make sure I do well enough to keep the job.
Between that, my move, and my adoption of a new cat/kitten (Her name's Ema, and she needs to go to the vet soon too...) I really haven't been able to get my "real" studying done. I've also had multiple problems with companies thinking bills are late because my change of address apparently didn't work properly, and my insurance company is now saying I owe some 30,000 dollars for my surgery (which I don't....) I have a lot of excuses, and feel that they're "good" (or as good as excuses can be) since all the stuff that's been keeping me busy lately has been necessary, but this is still starting to get problematic a bit; it's beginning to get worrisome at the very least.
At any rate. The plan is to keep focusing just on job stuff until my exam for that in a week, because I really couldn't deal with loosing this job through being unprepared. After that I'll turn my attention back towards my real studying. The upside here is that the necessary learning for my job started off steep, but really plateaus and I can relax once I get it all down. It's true that there's plenty more I can learn /through/ the job, but that's more a perk of the job than anything needed to /do/ the job. So if things work out here I know I'll need less time to study my for job, and will have that time back to study for my MCAT.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
My Move
Well, I haven't posted in awhile, but it's not for lack of happenings this time. It's just that I was without internet access until today while I waited on Comcast to get things set up in my new place (and it's still not entirely set up right, but I do have my cable now. Only need to figure out how to use the wifi to connect it to my tv and other things).
Anyways, I've been very busy lately. Moving in was pretty exhausting. There were a lot of boxes that had to go up three flights of stairs, which was a huge pain, although it will be worth it later. It's nice being on the top floor of places, and having no one thumping on your ceiling. My apartment is pretty well located as far as neighbors go, actually. To one side is a cable/satellite/mechanics room so I have no one on my right to bother (or who'd bother me), and because my apartment is in the corner of the building in a sort of broad V angle, I don't have anyone directly opposite me either. There's even a hallway to my left, so no one is on that side as well. The only people who'd bother me/I'd bother are those living below me, and that apartment could be empty for all I know.
The downside to all this is that my apartment lacks light. Because of the weird V shape it's forced into, it only gets direct light from 7-11 in the morning or so. On one hand that means I'll never have the glare problems of my old place. On the other hand... it does get a bit dark. It's ok though. It's a nice enough place, and would look great decorated. Decorating it is being postponed a bit though, because I drove my car into the sidewalk (don't ask how...) and will have to pay for a new bumper. The bumper's not damaged nearly so severely that it /must/ be replaced, but it looks tacky and I can't have that.
The moving process was tiring and exhausting, but when my family left afterwards, and nothing had to be moved anymore, it got so oddly quiet by contrast. It really felt pretty lonely and depressing that night, although everything is better now (although I'm still kind of living in the middle of nowhere).
I had a meeting at the hospital on the 10th, and got my ID badge, so I'm now officially good to go. I hadn't started real work yet because I was out of touch due to the move, but I expect I'll be able to get moving forward with that any day now and am looking forwards to it. I've been working on my MCAT studying as well, although a little bit less than I might have hoped. It's just been really busy lately though with the move, and I've been making a 4 hour round trip twice a week as well for physical therapy for my shoulder. But I have been getting some studying done. I've decided to go over physics first, since that was probably my weakest point.
I'm hoping to have my review of that done by the middle of October if possible, so I have enough time to get in a good overview of the other subjects as well. Then I'll start really narrowing down my studying in late winter/early spring, prior to the actual exam. But I need to start with a really broad overview of everything before I can find my weakest points.
That's it for now I think. I still have a lot of studying to do for my job as well; there's still 200 some terms and abbreviations I need to learn for training, along with all the procedures and forms I ought to familiarize myself with.
Anyways, I've been very busy lately. Moving in was pretty exhausting. There were a lot of boxes that had to go up three flights of stairs, which was a huge pain, although it will be worth it later. It's nice being on the top floor of places, and having no one thumping on your ceiling. My apartment is pretty well located as far as neighbors go, actually. To one side is a cable/satellite/mechanics room so I have no one on my right to bother (or who'd bother me), and because my apartment is in the corner of the building in a sort of broad V angle, I don't have anyone directly opposite me either. There's even a hallway to my left, so no one is on that side as well. The only people who'd bother me/I'd bother are those living below me, and that apartment could be empty for all I know.
The downside to all this is that my apartment lacks light. Because of the weird V shape it's forced into, it only gets direct light from 7-11 in the morning or so. On one hand that means I'll never have the glare problems of my old place. On the other hand... it does get a bit dark. It's ok though. It's a nice enough place, and would look great decorated. Decorating it is being postponed a bit though, because I drove my car into the sidewalk (don't ask how...) and will have to pay for a new bumper. The bumper's not damaged nearly so severely that it /must/ be replaced, but it looks tacky and I can't have that.
The moving process was tiring and exhausting, but when my family left afterwards, and nothing had to be moved anymore, it got so oddly quiet by contrast. It really felt pretty lonely and depressing that night, although everything is better now (although I'm still kind of living in the middle of nowhere).
I had a meeting at the hospital on the 10th, and got my ID badge, so I'm now officially good to go. I hadn't started real work yet because I was out of touch due to the move, but I expect I'll be able to get moving forward with that any day now and am looking forwards to it. I've been working on my MCAT studying as well, although a little bit less than I might have hoped. It's just been really busy lately though with the move, and I've been making a 4 hour round trip twice a week as well for physical therapy for my shoulder. But I have been getting some studying done. I've decided to go over physics first, since that was probably my weakest point.
I'm hoping to have my review of that done by the middle of October if possible, so I have enough time to get in a good overview of the other subjects as well. Then I'll start really narrowing down my studying in late winter/early spring, prior to the actual exam. But I need to start with a really broad overview of everything before I can find my weakest points.
That's it for now I think. I still have a lot of studying to do for my job as well; there's still 200 some terms and abbreviations I need to learn for training, along with all the procedures and forms I ought to familiarize myself with.
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