At the hospital

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So I’ve been doing my volunteer/observation hour work at the hospital. First day was ok, but the second day sucked and the third day kinda sucks too. I’ve had to explain the reason why I was there to everyone over and over again, and half the time I was saying that I was there to get my bachelors for radiology at OSU and the other half that I was trying to get into OSU’s medical school to become a radiologist. Apparently when you study radiology it’s a lot different than being a rad tech, and by the time I found that out I had told half of everyone that I’m gonna be a doctor and now half think I’m gonna be a doctor and what not, jeesh. Not only that but while I’m there I look like a doctor too, dressed up and without a uniform, so even though I look the part I have no idea what’s goin on and so I feel like a quack. I just hope they don’t get together talking and then ask me again because they both heard something different and then I have to explain that I didn’t know med school and that stuff was different and then I would look really really retarded. Well I haven’t left to go yet today. I’ve been going in at 8 and I’m not gonna go in today probably until 1 o clock, because I don’t think they really care that I do that because they understand that 50 hours is a long time and most people only have to do 4 so… The past couple days it sucks though too because they’ve been throwing me around between different departments like a football. The people at CT dump me at MRI and the people at MRI then dump me back at CT because they say, “well we don’t have any patients would you like to go here?” And I really feel like I don’t have a choice when they say that and I say sure, because if I say no I’ll just be sitting there twiddling my thumbs the whole freaking time. It really sucks too trying to be friendly with the people there and make small talk, and I HATE small talk. Especially with people that I don’t know very well, I only like speaking when I have something to say. Something I’ve been trying to do is match up my lunch with the students that are working there, but I haven’t been able to do it once I keep ending up eating with the older ladies. During the potluck the other day I tried to find out where people were eating and they lead me to like the locker room where all the older people were eating and I was like fuck! dammit! I then came back and grabbed more food and was gonna sit in the corner where everyone was and they were all like, hey would you like to eat in the locker room instead? and no, i didn’t but I said no and they said why not and I said because everyone already left, but what they did was have me it in the hall in the middle room and I was like the only one eating and I already ate a plate so I was getting really full for nothing and it just sucked. After I threw my plate away and was going back to the food room to get a napkin all the students were getting food, figures, man that sucked. Also when I was about to eat in the middle room hallway the one lady let me know that I missed a belt loop in the back and that’s really embarrassing because it had been like that since yesterday. They were really happy though when I brought the pie in in the morning but I think they were more happy of the gesture than the pie because I don’t think anyone ate it and I don’t know where it is. Anyways…yeah. I’m gonna go in and try to see “cardiovascular radiology” so I have to go find the rad supervisor Lisa and probably make her have to hold my hand and introduce them to me. I like MRI, and I like shadowing in the MRI room because I can just hide back there and not worry about anything,