another life blog

Ever since I’ve gained self-awareness, I’ve been in school. When I graduate from dental school at the ripe age of 30, I’d be working for the Air Force for another 4 years. After that, I’d still be working somewhere for the next 20+ yrs ~ and all for what? I supposed for the occasional vacation and then retirement into VR gaming and non-stop anime.

Gradually, I’m gaining insight into how life kinda suck and there’s no helping it. No one can have fun all the time ~ even at the job that they love doing, there will be a time when you’d think, “shit, why did I decide to do what I’m doing now…? I should have done ???? instead!” Wife and kids are probably the same way I’m sure - that’s why there are so much infidelity going on in the world. I do hope tho, that life with the wife will be happy 99% of the time, instead of constant unhappiness and waiting for the occasional 1%.

So school is more fun now ~ 1.5 years into Dental School, and we’re doing the pre-clinic almost every single day of the week, getting ready to treat real living patients! But would the general public like knowing we have done less than 300 hours of simulation prior to treating them? I mean, we’re doing operative lab about 4 hours a week for 15 weeks, fixed, remo, endo, for about the same and then we’re treating living people! I really think there should be less academic bullshit about how growth hormones can affect fishies and weird mammals and much more about things that matter. Really - when you hear the course “oral biology” - you think of studying of oral bacteria flora that lives in the oral cavity right? WRONG! We’re learning about Fibroblast Growth Factors and how they affect oral development. Does the general public really care about their dentist knowing why they are the way they are? I mean, if a guy comes into my office with a severely deformed face, I seriously doubt he’d need me telling him what went wrong during embryological development ~ he’d probably have heard about it 9000+ times from his PCP! More time on simulation, less time on learning pointless shit that we’d purge from our brain within days after exam ~ plzthx.

Of course, there are only a couple worthless classes like Oral Biology and IPPM ~ most are pretty darn important like oral diagnosis, pharmacology, endo, perio, operative, etc. But let’s look at IPPM - or integrated practice … whatever whatever. It’s the most useless class and we’re wasting away 3 hours of our Friday mornings for the next several weeks because of it! WHY?! Do we really need someone to tell us about ethics? If we have bad ethics, no class is going to change us from shortchanging our patient. If we’re going to do what’s right for the patient, that’s exactly what we’d do, period! Oo, let’s look at Ozar’s model of ethical decision making and think about what we should do from there ~~ give me a break! Ethical decisions are usually made within a split second and our nature will win ~ 100% of the time. I doubt we can convince the administrators to get rid of IPPM, but we really done need it.

Alright, so Monday, we have our first Pharmacology test. I should be studying for it - but .. meh. Earlier this month, I bought a new phone: Sprint Mogul. It’s a really nice smartphone (I doubt it’d be that smart 10 yrs from now, but it’s pretty dang smart now). The biggest problem with the phone is the lack of RAM and associated memory leakage… probably due to all the crazy program I got installed on it. I also got a nice plan to go with it: 500 anytime minute, 7 pm nights & weekends, unlimited text + unlimited data ~ all for $30! Including Total Equipment Protection $7, it’s about $40 per month includin tax.

My newly build AMD computer broke late last month too. Sent the MB back to Gigabyte (3 weeks turnaround), advanced RMAed the Corsair RAM, and sent the AMD chip back for repair. I also got Antec earthWatt 380 PSU, and got Po to send me a nice 1000 watt APC BackUPS. Hope it all works well in the end. The lack of perm-on computer is kinda weird sometimes… ah well.

That’s about it - think I gotta get back to studying now. Oh, Clannad is starting to suck ~ I hope the next episode makes the whole dang thing worth it. Kanon is much better.

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