October in a post

I know I always say it's such a busy time on campus but who knew senior year was so jam packed? Yesterday, I signed up for my last semester of classes here as an undergrad and this month I applied for graduation.

HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!

So, in honor of my not having class tonight (that and I'm forever procrastinating on my homework!), here is a snapshot into my month

Earlier this month the four of us (Liz, Sam, Wendi) took a trip to a local farm out in Westminster to pick some apples and pumpkins. While we were waiting for the tractor to come back and pick us up, we couldn't pass on the opportunity to take some pictures. Yes, yes we were being laughed at but that's okay we had fun!

My little Sam and I after singing at mass on Sunday for the Family and Friends Weekend celebration

In OB clinical, we got to try on how it feels to be 9 months preggo. I couldn't even make it past 5 minutes without my back hurting. Kudos to women everywhere who go through this. 

Candra is over in Spain still and we sent her a card to greet her Happy Halloween. She posted this and I'm sure she would have never guessed she'd end up here ;) 

Last week, after my medsurg II test and while eating lunch, this bunny shows up out of nowhere! She's advertising for CAB's Monster Mash (I was at work but I heard it was a HUGE HIT!) I'm so sad I missed it but nursing calls :)

More goofing off at the farm,,,,

Earlier this month, my mental health clinical ended. It was not an experience I thought I'd enjoy as much as I did but it was perhaps due to that awesome professor in the center that it was like that. 

So many things have happened this month and to keep writing and posting pictures of them just might take up the entire night. So for now ladies all the best until next time :) 

"Everything we have we can just as easily not have"

NUR-406 Trends and Theories class (some of us left) sneaking into a shot with Liz Murray. Amazing speaker, fantastic message, and a courageous challenge for us all as future healthcare providers especially those currently in Mental Health. It's an issue of counter transference we face every time we see a patient and while it is human nature, "there is violence in the comparison." We can be that Perry, a special person that sees beyond the broken and beyond wanting to fix and instead see into the future of what that person/patient can be.

Liz Murray is the author of "Breaking Night" aka who is the person from that Lifetime 

movie about the rags to riches, homeless to Harvard. 

This was our common read this year and it resonates so much with who are as an institution and puts a special challenge for all of us to be better.