While Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes decide on a wedding date, and Mark Viduka breaks a toe playing soccer, I have completed my last ever class as an undergraduate. Woohoo!
There’s a certain buzz amongst my fellow students. There’s a palpable sigh of relief at the thought of not having to stay up to all hours in the morning to complete assignments, make the trek to Lidcombe at 8am and live off a measly student budget. We are walking around campus with our heads up high: we are ‘old hand’ - we have survived the long and arduous journey and about to become full fledged physiotherapists.
Nothing can break our spirit now….…
Except those morose full time workers who love to remind us students that the work force is really a prison and we will wish we could go back to uni. Yeh, thanks guys!
But I guess there will be that element of nostalgia – the 180 familiar friendly faces which we see daily, the flexibility to take off a couple of classes here and there as the need arises, and the opportunity to be educated by world class academics.
Nostalgia aside, we are ready to take on the workforce. The 9 til 5, five days a week challenge of utilizing our skills. Well most of us. There are those crazy students who have decided to sit through another 4 years of uni and do the graduate medicine or dentistry programs. I guess 4 years is too short for some people!
That’s not to say that the world of post graduate and masters is a crazy idea. It’s just that as an old hand, the idea of becoming a young hand again is rather tiring and might have to wait for a little while.
And first I have to pass the upcoming exam period!!
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Congrats, Keren! Good luck with exams - but I think we all know that you hardly need it!
Posted by: Lauren | October 26, 2006 09:37 AM
Well done Buddy!! Great work, I know how tops you have been at Uni so I can't wait till you're putting those skills into practice!!! I heard some funny stories about your graduation dinner as well, sounds like a big night! Stay tops! (Hope you are not too tired after the 50 kay ride either! I should think you wouldn't be, you have walked twice as far recently!!)
Posted by: Brendon | October 26, 2006 11:39 AM
Mazel!
But does that mean you'll be leaving the blogosphere soon?
Posted by: Joel | October 27, 2006 11:59 PM
Kudos Keren and king-kongrats on kompletion.
You've reached the last session of your undergrad season.
only a couple of complex case-studies till culmination of the catharsis.
then comes the real world with real back pain and arthritis
its flight to freedom in the framework of a further 55 000 physios.
But you'll have the major money to buy those precious moschino's
You'll get to grow and give while you greet and treat the gait of the Grey.
as they from grimace and gripe mon.to.fri-day
i think in a year you'll be yearning for yet more youth to yield in your hand.
The way to do this is by enrolling in a "bachelor of ying" to complement your physio-yang.
-"crazy manifests itself in many ways, at different times in everyone. what time is it by your watch?"
congrats again
-Rah
Posted by: Rahil | October 30, 2006 12:07 AM
Hi Keren, any idea where i can get the latest book list for year 1 phty commencing in march 07?
Rdgs,
Ernie
(Singapore)
Posted by: Ernie | January 22, 2007 06:23 PM