No love for the Student Nurses

I don't think I can whinge about this enough, nothing burns my cheese more then a disorganised, late Teacher who has to be hunted down to attend a meeting s/he organised. UNLESS it is Terry* who has to be hunted down for a meeting s/he organised to tell us that the "lucky" few of us that will be attending Clinicals 2.5hrs away in a rural (Large) town, during the handful of weeks classes are still on and assignments are due, WITH the added bonus of a whole 2 days clinical to travel back to give a 10minute presentation with a group that we have to meet up with somehow prior to this presentation.

Confused yet?

Here's the skinny:
Clinical placement will be 2.5hrs away by car or a minimum 3.5 via train.
Group presentations will not be granted extensions
We have to find our own way back to give a 10minute demonstration during our 3rd week, they can't push it back until the 4th week is over
We have to liaise with a group of students who get to work on the assignment in classes that we are expected to keep up with in our own time.

And the cherry on the cake??
Some lucky buggers get to work 13hour days on placement and as usual we don't get any financial support for travel, food or accommodation.
*Terry is a gender neutral name :D
*whinge whinge whinge*

Sudden Potato Syndrome

It doesn't exist according to Google but I propose that it become a recognised health problem around the globe.
Symptoms involve:
- Sudden weather changes to near freezing
- Hibernation like sleeping habits
- Requiring a heart-attack inducing amount of caffeine just to start the day
- Enough sugar to kill a dozen diabetics
- Unusual layering habits in an attempt to avoid frostbite
- Unexplained naps
- Inexcusable laziness
- Over consumption of fast foods that are warmer than a sandwich and easier to 'make' for dinner than a can of soup.


To quote the mighty Shakespeare from Measure for Measure;
"I'll pray a thousand prayers for your death"
Or to paraphrase Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory:
Oh, Winter thou art a heartless bitch.

Things they say in honesty but should be lies or How to start a degree

Before you even begin the awe inspiring new year at the adults learning facility known as University you may be required to attend an educational day that tells you how long you will be allowed to grace their halls and how much money you will have to fork out once you have a job in the 'real' world.

My own such experience was full of sunshine and laughter a day that should be noted in my memory bank as the day they weren't joking.

As the second eldest child in a family that hadn't attended a university in well over 2 decades it was nerve racking and exciting. My older sister whom we shall call "Sissy" because I thought it sounded endearing and not offensive, had to defer her own first year due to the financial costs related to University.

I'm sure you understand those silly little habits we tend to have of sleeping and food that cut into time and money.As such I was determined that with my ever impressive bank balance, enough to last 1 year provided I still worked as a casual, I would not fall prey to the demons Billius Maximus and Foodicus Price-Go-Uppity.

But back to the 'jokes' they told us at the educational event...

To begin I recall a speech from students in their last year of study who with a broad smile on their face told us to "Say goodbye to your friends and family while you still can. You may as well be dead for the next X number of years." Naturally we laughed at this amusing little joke as their grins broadened.
In short I will end with this fact: I live with my best-friend, the boyfriend that is, and my best-female-friend   lives but a mere one hours train ride away and I ran into her by accident; which means I was in the Capital city and just texted to see where she was so I could find her and this was more then a month ago now. I think I need more friends >.<