Moving right along (sort of)

Well I'll start this post by saying this. Because of the snow, we have officially had 6 days of school cancelled so far. That's not 6 days since August, that's 6 days in the last month. It's hard to believe, but it's true. It's really messed up our schedule too because we've missed several hours of pre-clinic time that we just can't get back. Some other classes with just lecture have been able to reschedule just fine, but the pre-clinic and lab classes are really taking a hit. As I sit here now, in fact, we are out of school. Today is day #6 and the odds are about 50/50 that we'll be out tomorrow as well.

Anyway, about this semester. Last semester we had about 80-90 tests and quizzes, but this semester we'll have about 45. As you can tell, a much lighter schedule. It's nice to have a more relaxing semester after how crazy it was last fall. I felt like I could barely take a breath between tests last semester, but now we only have a couple things a week, if that. Most of our tests are crowded during the week before spring break or during finals week. Two of our classes are actually pass/fail and we have about 4 hours of pre-clinic time each week which has been a lot of fun.

As for the Air Force scholarship, not much new here. I sent in my reimbursement for loupes back in mid-December and still have not gotten paid back for them. I e-mailed AFIT a couple weeks ago and I was told that it was basically a problem of understaffing and the big holiday break. My reimbursements typically come back between 15 and 25 days, so this will hold the record for sure. Luckily I don't need the money right now so it's fine as long as it does come at some point. I had $13k+ of charges at the beginning of the year, only to see them all magically wiped away a few weeks ago. I sure do love this scholarship!

Sorry I don't have much more to say, but I'm pretty well adapted to the groove of dental school and this Air Force HPSP so there's not much "new" stuff going on right now. As always, feel free to e-mail me with any questions you may have!