EA Telethon!

EA Telethon! Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of 10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike, who are super awesome. They were really a lot of fun to hang out with between phone calls. Plus, I got to talk to a bunch of the newly admitted 10s. You guys are awesome, and Im so psyched to meet you at CPW. Its really kind of weird, because I remember being so excited looking forward to CPW last year. Now Im a freshman and Im still really excited about it. Thats kind of weird. I guess being a blogger has made me so involved in applicants and prefrosh that its hard not to get excited. Anyway, we made our best efforts to call everyone, but of course, thats completely impossible. Some people we just didnt get to in time (and it was getting pretty late) and some people werent home, didnt answer, whatever. If you didnt get a phone call, your file was put aside into a separate folder and well try our best to catch you during the RD Telethon- promise! Ive basically been working continuously for the past 15 hours and Im still wide awake. I had EMT class, of course, and then I basically went straight to call all of the Early Admits. I feel so productive today! Class today was pretty awesome, because we started practicing medical assessment for real, so we got to see everything weve learned so far really coming together. We were basically talked through a scenario where we had to assess a patient, continue to ask them questions, and try to figure out what the problem was and then verbalize how to treat it appropriately. Is it a stroke? Heart attack? Diabetic episode? Ok, so Ill now administer oxygen and begin to administer a stroke exam. Crazy stuff, but its so cool to see everything come together. Then all of a sudden you realize wow, Ive only been doing this for 3 weeks and Im almost done with my training! Of course, I still need to go through the exams and will need lots and lots of real experience before Im comfortable with thisbut its still pretty amazing. Whew. Its been a long and crazy day. Let me just say that I loved talking to you early admits and I cant wait to meet you all at CPW!