First off, I am DONE with the 2nd semester of OT school. The spring semester anyway. We're in summer session so I suppose we're not technically grad 3's - yet. After mid-July though - HA! Grad 3! No longer at the bottom of the totem pole!
We have learned quite a bit these past two crazy semesters. The spring semester focused primarily on the pediatric population. Though I don't see myself working in pediatrics (primarily because I have little kids of my own I think I would be drained), I still enjoyed it. One of the things that I've come to appreciate, at the risk of sounding corny, is that the more I learn, the more I realize that we are just scraping the surface. For every topic that is of interest, there is a wealth of information and it is up to the reader to decide whether the information is useful or not. As much as I love to meander on the internet (a la stream of consciousness), you have to be cognizant that there's also a lot of garbage.
I also took a whirlwind course in May: Cognition across the lifespan. I think my interest in this area is leading me towards serving the people with TBI. But then again, there's so much that is within the realm of occupational therapy that it would be premature to decide right now.
Now for something completely different: we have ducks, ducklings actually. It's for the house, or at least that's what I was led to believe. This was the video that did me in to agree to this crazy idea:
Yup. Ducks.
OK. Fine. They're cute.
