DrStudentDentist

…. I’m tired.

I left the sim lab today at 9:30 pm. This is the second night in a row. I hope this doesn’t become too regular but I have a feeling it will be with “early” days as special days. I had to do alginate impressions of my typodont, pour the stone models, and mount this new stone on my articulator. Unfortunately my first set must have closed too hard so when all was done and mounted, I discovered a chip of the distal corner of the left maxillary central incisor and the right mandibular central incisor. It sucked to see it and a little hard to accept that I had to start back at square 1 but I did it. On the plus side, my big sib came around and helped me through the whole thing. Having her there made the experience so much better.

I still have some restorative homework to get to and I need to get more sleep tonight. I bike to and from school and after lab today, I forgot to grab my helmet and being tired, I just left. Then of all days, I fell at a red light. The driver next to me told me to wear a helmet. *sigh*

Oh, I also wanted to add some stuff that’s been going on. This morning I took my 2nd dental anatomy quiz as well as handed in my wax up of #8. Before lunch was over, it was graded and ready for us. To give you an idea of what I’ve been battling, in 3 weeks +/- two days, I’ve done 2 wax ups and started a #6 wax up (which had a cone break off … sad), did amalgam preps for #19 and #30, did so many alginate impressions of my typodont and my own teeth, poured so many stone models, did up 2 articulator mounts, and had 4 quizzes and 1 exam. Not sure how this is being read but I’m not complaining. The work is satisfying and one day this will be over and I’ll wish I was still in dental school so I’m enjoying the heck out of it while I’m here. =D

Also, word at UOP is that next year, we’re going to paperless charting. That’ll be interesting. Not sure what system we’ll be using yet.