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09.11.19// 7 of 100 Days of Productivity

I had non-stop classes today from 9am to 5:50pm, but I got out of my Chemistry lab pretty early today. My chem lab coat is way too long and it’s an extra extra small. So 🤷🏼‍♀️ idk. Now, I have to work on some American Culture class work because she won’t be in tomorrow— we have an online discussion due. And, then tomorrow I can work on chemistry and bio and precalc all I want!

First off, what is a longitudinal?

A longitudinal program is a program specifically for those who want residency. It allows for all or majority of your APPE rotations to be within one hospital system. Our school partnered with several hospitals like UMass, Baystate, Lowell, and Yale hospitals so that select students can do majority of their rotations there.

Not every pharmacy school has this, but…

GUYS I GOT INTO PA SCHOOL!!!!!! 🍾🎉🙈

Congrats, you got accepted and are/could be coming to MCPHS University to work on your talent in [insert health field]. Good job you! 

Now you might have heard from people that “college is so much easier than highschool,” and “omg youre gonna have so much free time! #LOL” And while that may be true for other colleges, at MCPHS you can be guarenteed a long fucking haul. 

Long hours of studying, eating meals while studying, drinking coffee to study more, crying because of studying, oh and the ever fun: thinking about studying for class A while studying for class B. This school is no joke; it is hard, it is long, and it will kick you while you are down. So it’s either time to suck it up buttercup or to tap out cause at this school only the strong survive but the smart thrive. 

What To Expect When You’re Expecting MCPHS: Part 1 - Housing

Dorming

If I had to sum up MCPHS in one catchy phrase that they could put on a T-shirt, it would be: “Small. LIke Fucking Small.” MCPHS is literrally one academic building plus a little building up the road a bit that you’ll only ever have one class in a year. There are a couple of different dorms dotted around the area that either MCPHS has stuck on top of the one building (like Fennel or Matricaria) or you’re way the fuck out of the way at Treehouse or Peabody (or the new tower building that being built at Emmanuel. That sucks).

There’s good and bad to every dorm hall and honestly the school likes to make it seem you get a preference but its honestly hit or miss. While you can't really decide where you go, WHO you get put with can be influenced. Over the summer, the school will send you a questionnaire. On this questionnaire its going to ask you a question like "are you a messy or a clean person?" Let me define what this means.

Clean does not means immaculate. The clean spectrum ranges from maybe leaving a couple clothes on the floor to being OCD about everything little detail. I want you to go up to your room right now and look at it honestly. If you have a couple clothes on the floor or maybe the bed isn't made or perhaps you have some papers lying about; congratu-fuckin-lations youre a clean person. Now perhaps you're saying "but hey, it looks messy to me," trust me, its not. Put down you're clean on the survey and when you have your roommate just put in some extra work to keep things cleaner then they would be. If it would take you less than 3 minutes to make things clean, youre a clean person. Don't argue just listen.

See, if you are like me, then you put down dirty on the questionnaire because i threw my clothes on the floor and had some papers on my desk. I had organization in my room and I didn't leave dishes in my room. But i felt it was messy so I put down I was a messy person. You may be thinking, how bad can messy people be. Let me tell you from my experience and many other people I have talked to who were on the messier end of the clean scale.

These people, who are the true messy people, will keep things messy. They won't sweep unless asked to and generally don't understand the meaning of shared space. If you're in Fennel or Treehouse youre gonna be in a small 1 room with that person and you're probably going to have to set strict boundaries with a messy person to avoid conflict. Its not being rude, its sticking up for yourself. Matricaria or the new dorms, y'all are gonna have a kitchen and a bathroom you are going to need to keep clean. Messy people will not actively put in work to keep these areas clean and if you don't want to be on top of them all the time, the best thing to do is to establish a cleaning schedule. Chat it up with your RA, they can help you figure out the best way to do this without anyone getting pissed off later down the line.

Commuting Student

Honestly, statying at home and commuting is becoming a sweeter and sweeter deal for a lot of kids nowadays. MCPHS dorms come out to be about $1600 a month and finding an apartment in this shithole of a town for cheap is not easy. So commuting is not a bad option.