2 posts tagged “college”
With apologies to Robert Frost, I've got a "decision point" kicking around in my head today.
I'm working towards medical school, that's no surprise. I've got prerequisites that I'm scheduling, and I've got to plan for a baccalaureate degree, as well. That's not the question, either.
The question is (and my love is going to strangle me in my sleep for "worrying" about this so early in the process"), am I more interested in heading down the allopathic (MD) route, or the osteopathic (DO) route? The education is basically the same, and residency is basically identical. The difference between a MD and a DO is that a DO takes all of the "normal" medical stuff and adds "osteopathic manipulative medicine" to the mix. OMM seems to be similar to chiropractic adjustment and a more holistic and preventative approach to health.
I'm not anywhere near needing to make this decision at this point, by any stretch. But, it's something that I need to keep simmering in the back of my head, for when it's time.
In other news, I found out that taking the week off in December in order to go on vacation will not (in and of itself, there are other factors) preclude me completing the paramedic program that I am looking at. Yay!
So many times, PowerPoint presentations are done extremely poorly. Too much "flash and bang" with different effects for page-change, audio, riot of colors, text effects; All of these make for a poor presentation. Ugh.
Unfortunately for me, one of the assignments
for my biology class this term was to create and deliver a PowerPoint
presentation in class. We've been subjected
presented with several of these already in class, so I got to see some
of what the other students were doing, and how they did it. Suffice to
say that most of them were... Let's just call them "interesting", in
order to be polite.
I opted to present mine this past Thursday,
which was the first week after spring break. I figured that I'd be
able to spend some time during break to get it put together, since I
already had a good idea of what I would do: Pandemic Flu
(the other end of that link has a PDF of the presentation, originally created on a Mac and exported to PDF... Cool!)
So,
I got up and gave my presentation. The teacher (Ph.D in biology) asked
several tough and pointed questions about my presentation, which he
hadn't done for the others that I've seen so far. Yes, I had the
answers, and for one I indicated that I'd go over that point later in
the presentation. One of my classmates (another one headed for medical
school) commented that she though it was cool that I didn't just read
off my slides, but rather talked about them and referred to the points
on them.
The presentation is worth 50 points on the grade. As instructor and I exchanged places, I saw that he'd noted "50" on the top of the first page of the printed copy that was required. Not bad, if I say so myself.
