Dental Hygiene Program Orientation Day

                                               

     The long awaited day finally just ended. It was a bit dissapointing at first this morning when after walking to the college I realized that they had the orientation going on for all the future students. I asked the guy sitted next to me what he was taking and he mutted "Wielding!". Not to be biased on any course but I bet you I would have told you from the word go he was not in dental hygiene.
  Around noon the very cool Dr. B came and asked the DH students to follow her to the Building E(Our next home for the next 23 or so months). What a relieve! We got to meet the faculty members who introduced themslves and left hastily. Favourite part we got to meet our classmates for the next 23 months. Introductions were based on writing your name and 3 things about you. You had to exchange your card with your seatmate and they had to introduce you. I was very lucky because I'm not the only guy in the class. Cool guy from NY will be the other dude in the class. Although all the classmates seem to be really nice,mature and focused people.
 Abunch of senior students came in hardy taking in our questions and showing us around the school. Very happy,confident and helpful bunch. They seemed so in love with the course and so sure of themselves. Hoping one day we will get to their level.  We got instructions about the clinic. We have to find patients on our own when the time comes for the clinics. Its a huge part of succeeding in the course. Not just finding the patient but also finding the RIGHT patient. The earlier you start establishing good rapport with the community,fellow students and any other potential future patient the better.
  For now everyone is happy and excited to start despite several heads up that it's not going to be easy. But people have been through it and came out successful. We are the samllest class so far that has been admitted in the program and we are all hoping to graduate together as a class. First day of class will be on 28th of Sept which will be on a Wed and after my Birthday. Thats pretty cool considering there is enough time to celebrate the birthday and nurse the hangover on Tue and hit the class on Wed. First we will be getting the text books and then class. Lucky to have been exempted from English Composition as I took it in community college and passed pretyy well. That leaves me with Chemistry for Health Sciences (4 credits) and Anatomy and Physiology 1 (4 credits). Monday through Thursday from 7:30AM to 10:00AM and then A&P in the afternoon from 1:00PM to 3:40PM. All that up to 11/1016 before switching to Chemistry for Dental Hygiene and Anatomy and Physiology 2 then  we will call it another  term. So first 2 terms, brace for Chem and Anatomy folks.

To all the guys that we just got in with, we can do this folks!!!
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