Now What?

We finished the quarter off with a bang having 10 finals and a horrendous end. Our EBP exam was insanely hard! This exam was probably the toughest I have taken in my life, no joke! Conceptually, this exam was the epitome of confusion, it could have been the definition for the word, confusion!

Now that finals are complete I am trying to figure out what I want to focus on during this two week break. I will likely rest and recover from the abuse of the past 10 weeks, soak up some fine brews and sweat my ass off trying to keep up with Sadie on a mountain bike, but it will all be in good fun!

A good friend of mine is leaving chiropractic school to venture into osteopathic. Osteopathic, for those that don't know, is an equivalent degree to an MD. Roughly, they are trained in similar settings, under the rigors of pharmaceutical inundation and scalpels. It seems like the profession pushes the "wellness" movement as an ideal they think was manifested solely by their profession but in turn, publicly practices mainstream medicine. My point is that DO's have to go out of their way to be CAM practitioners after their mainstream training. Orthomolecular medicine is one such entity. If you want to practice wellness, I don't recommend going into medicine because wellness isn't found through the approach medicine advocates!

To be different takes guts. I find this in my current class of chiropractic students. They have noticed I am not "normal". Funny as this may seem, I try not to be normal because I find normalcy boring and isolating. Reliance on the "pack" gets you no where in life. When I say pack, I mean cliques. You can look at it from many different perspectives, religions, cool crowds etc., all behave similarly when surrounded by their fellow pack-members. Isolating the different ones out.

The real world is more complex than this, I realize that. Nothing can explain the awkwardness of DC school. There are some who want to be physicians who don't have the grades, some don't care about grades and think academics are a waste of time and others are overachievers who see the world as their personal skating rink. Regardless, the path to get the degree is arduous and significantly difficult to obtain. Everyone must meet certain standards to be successful.

My hope is that quarter number 5 will be more brotherly, in that we become a closer knit group with less judgement and more cohesiveness.

We will see.