PT Olympics have been a tradition at Marquette since the 50's when the program was established. The classes compete in a Tug of War, Scavenger Hunt, Trivia, and multiple sporting events like volleyball, basketball, bag toss, and soccer. As you can see, my class, the DPT-5's are pretty much annihilating everyone at Tug of War - even the DPT-1's and 2's teaming up could not defeat us!
I think it is pretty cool that Marquette PT has traditions of student-planned events that have lasted this long. Others include Senior Farewell were we get up and poke fun at our professors, Pinning Ceremony in year 6, and initiation of the 5's into our ATB "fraternity" Alpha Thera Banda. It's getting to be time for all these events to happen and we have professors who graduated from the program 10-20 years ago who go all reminisce-y when they hear us talk about it.
I may or may not have an automatic in at both the Orthopedic Residency programs at the University of Utah and at the University of Southern California because of one of my professors knowing people at both places. Now I just have to make sure I do REALLY good in his class so he writes me stellar letters of recommendation.
I get used to it, being here all the time, but every now and then we are reminded what a big motherfucking deal some of our professors are in the PT world and we all take a step back and laugh. They are all like, "Oh yeah, I'm quoting so-and-so here in lecture because he is is world-known for his work in this. We get together ever couple of years and talk biomechanics of gait." Just like it's no big thing.
This semester is great. Orthopedics, Kinesiology, Physiology of Activity, Patient Management: Documentation and Reimbursement, and Evidence Based Practice. The first three I'm SUPER interested in, and the last two are taught by awesome professors.
Still hanging out in the PT clinic four hours a week giving free injury evals as a volunteer position. I'm hoping that after I take my Boards and become a Certified Athletic Trainer they'll have to pay me to do it, but either way it's nice to keep my foot in the door. I'm trying to bridge the gap between the Athletic Training Program and Physical Therapy programs here - after football season with my high school last year that was it for AT. I miss it a lot and I'm trying to find a way to get back into the athletic training room and work with the athletes here again. I just need to find a way to get in at a time where I'm not taking away from the experiences of the undergraduate ATs who are actually assigned to the teams.
I haven't slept through the night since I got back in August 4 weeks ago. I'm hoping that clearing up some things in my personal life will help with that, cause I'm ready to be done being exhausted all the time.
