Science is Cool!

So it is time for my monthly post.

Nothing too interesting has been happening to me this month. Just cramming for finals and hoping that I don't fail any of my classes. So instead of griping like I did in my last post I have decided to show why I choose to go into a science based career. To do this I am going to show some examples of how cool science can be.







I got theses clips from two shows on the discovery channel. The shows are Time Warp and Myth Busters, I highly recomend them both. I will admit that the science we study in pharmacy school is nothing like the science demonstrated in these videos but the theory remains the same. To me the information is just as exciting... Yes, I am a nerd.

Xbox 360 - the eternal strugle for free time

So you may have seen the recent commercials announcing that the Xbox 360 has dropped in price to $199. Well me and Sarah had a coupon that would give us 10% of a day of shopping at Target, add that to my employee discount of 10% and the fact that Target had a deal where you got a $25 gift certificate if you bought an Xbox 360 and we could get one for $145+tax. Sarah being the awesome wife that she is decide to take me to get one randomly. Here are some screen shots of games that I have and games that I want.



The Xbox 360 may be the best and worst thing that has happened to me a in a long time. I love the stupid thing. We got Fable 2 and it is so much fun. Now the only problem is striking the balance of playing the Xbox and studying for school. Man do I wish I could graduate.

Not to mention next semester is when I finally get into the meat and potatoes of pharmacy school. I started Organic Medicinal Chemisrty, the study of how drugs do what they do, my first semester. I started Pathophysiology, the study of diseases, last semester. Then I started Pharmacology, the study of what drugs do in your body, this semseter. Now next semester I start Therapeutics, the study of what drugs should be used on different diseases. These classes never end once started. I have Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Organic Medicinal Chemisrty all the way through the end of my third year now. This is when things start to get tricky, because those are just the core classes. Not to mention I have electives and other less important classes on top of those. Next semester I have 18 credit hours but just to give you some perspective, when you get into graduate school full time is now considered to be 8 credit hours insteas of 12 and 12 credit hours is a full course load instead of 18 because of the increased level of difficulty in the classes.

Lets all hope I can survive.

Out of Control Hair

So I have been so busy lately that I haven't had anytime to get my hair cut. It is getting seriously out of control. It is so bad that Sarah thinks that I am starting to look like Wolverine from X-Men. See for yourself.

Wow it has been a long time.

So I started this blog and then I didn't do with it for more than a month! Well it has been more that just laziness that has prevented me from taking care of my Blogging duties. As some of you may already know I am a student officer for the pharmacy school. I am the Vice President of Student Affairs for Utah Student Pharmacist Alliance... I know, quite the title. To make it a little more simple, I am the person that has to get everyone else involved in extracurricular activities.

At the Pharmacy School we have events where we go out into the community and teach people about Heartburn Prevention/Management, screen people for Diabetes, give people immunizations, teach about diet and nutrition, or even go to High Schools and Junior High Schools and teach the kids about "Pharming" and why it is bad. It is my job to organize these events, find students willing to participate and then find pharmacists willing to babysit the student pharmacists. It kind of goes with out saying that it is a lot of work and has taken a ton of my time. But for some reason I love my student position.

This position has given me an opportunity to leave the pharmacy school and the community better off and it has been really rewarding, not to mention I have had quite a bit of face time with the Dean and the Associate Deans which will come in handy when it comes time to apply for Residencies if I choose to do so.

I guess it should take so much of my time but I am trying to do the best I possibly can to make my school the best there is. We have been doing Operation Diabetes, Operation Immunization and Heartburn Awareness for years but I actually came up with the idea for the "anti-pharming" program and I am trying to get it going myself. I have already told a lot of people this but last year in Utah more people died from taking prescription medications than from taking illegal drugs. So this is a problem that I wanted to address.

Well I won't ramble any longer, but I promise to do better from now on.

First Posting

I guess why I have decided to start a blog is mostly because I am far away from everyone. Everyone that I know other than my wife coworkers and fellow students lives in a different county and I don't get to see them that often. This is a way for me to share with them what is happening in my life. Also it is a good way to get some stuff off my mind.

For this first post I think I should catch anyone up with my life who is interested in knowing about my life. I am a second year pharmacy student and a student officer, Vice President of Student Affairs to be exact.

I am working as a pharmacy intern at a near by pharmacy and I like it a lot. To be honest I learn more working in the pharmacy than I do in pharmacy school.

That is the short story up to now, and I guess anything else is still to come.