Tri-8 Wk11 Days 508, 509 - Thur, Fri 7/21, 7/22

I took a vacation day Friday from clinic and it was the first day since May that I've been able to go straight home from school instead of dealing with clinic. I did take one other vacation day on a Friday but ended up staying at school until 6 p.m. so I could finish up various requirements that I just haven't had time to finish up, most notable my radiology conferences.

Originally, I thought the vacation day would also let me stay up late to study for my derm exam on Friday but I was way too tired to fall asleep. I made good use of my time on Friday - got to have a quick lunch with my parents then got my tires rotated and oil changed at Valvoline. I wasn't able to stay awake much past 5 p.m. and fell asleep. I woke up a bit after midnight and watched some of the horrific tragedy that took place over in Norway where 92 people have now been declared dead due to the messed up actions of one person. I fell back asleep after that and slept until 10 p.m.

There just doesn't seem to be any catching up on sleep anymore. i'm flat out chronically exhausted. I've scarcely anything new to say. I did read a few weeks ago about a very young administrator that was once hired on to the faculty at Harvard University and the one thing he immediately implemented was that if any department head wanted to add anything to their program then they had to take something else away. Kind of reminds me of the PAYGO plan signed by President Bush that forced Clinton to only spend what monies were available or to eliminate existing expenditures to offset any new spending. At least those are the charts I see most often. I'm sure 101 different views and opinions exist but ....I'm no expert in the field ...

I guess I need to get an application in to Northwestern University (NW) I need more information. There may be a CBI or Community Based Internship available which may suit me but, honestly, I don't feel fit to run a cash register at Dairy Queen right now.

I thought the process of becoming a chiropractor at Logan would help me become a better person but it's doing nothing but destroying me. NOBODY should have to drive 4,000 miles in their first 6 weeks of classes - that comes out to over 650 miles a week. The one individual week I checked w/ my car's odometer put me at 718 miles for the week.

In the few trimesters before becoming a Tri-8, the most common comment I heard from upperclassmen was that they wanted to burn down the school. I never gained full insight as to why they were disgruntled but I'm sure part of it had to do with the switch from 1 to 3 days per week mandatory clinic. I also know the valedictorian of the last graduating class made a comment in his speech that his class was about to step across the stage to get their diploma "as long as there were no more graduation requirement changes".

I wonder how students who transferred to Logan were so enthusiastic about chiropractic. I don't remember exactly which college it was but I think one of them lost their accreditation which caused the influx.

I just don't know .... I love my patients and I love being able to actually help make people feel better and help alleviate them of pain & suffering ....

I really can't stand the end game of this DC program at Logan.

I do know that last Friday, one of the clinics was scheduled to knock out 16 Case Reports! 16 in one day!

I know that the person behind scheduling our case reports NEVER had to come in on his day off for a case report. I know out clinician simply backed him up instead of ever once bothering to look into any reason why anybody would be disgruntled about the schedule. I know my name has come up a lot with my clinician (he told me it did) but, I have no idea exactly what was said because he had nothing further to say to me other than my name had come up a lot. who knows.

I detest their newly implemented No Tolerance policy with regards to switching clinics. Seems like they're doing everything under the sun so as not to ever have to deal with any student concerns regardless of the circumstances. I'd like to see those who implement the policy drive 4,000 miles over the next 6 weeks. I dare any of them to try and get through the Tri-8 program under the same circumstances as me.

probably a waste of time to write about any of this. I still have work to do. and, either i'm staying or i'm going.

Recommendation to any students considering chiropractic school .....LOOK AROUND - see what their programs are like - LOOK at the end game - COMPARE - right now, all Logan knows is to add, add, add without having a clue of all the consequences they're having on their students.