We're almost there...

Yes we are. Only seven days of class left. But we are tired. At our clinical site, you can tell us apart from everyone else. We are the ones with blood shot eyes and expressionless faces. We go about our day, determined to do everything correctly, but in the back of our minds we are only thinking about one thing...sleep. If only we could sleep. But there is no time for that. In the next week we still have so much to do. We have prep for our new patients, we have a paper due, we have a presentation to prepare for (of course, none of us have started it yet), we have online assessments to take and, of course, we have a final exam. All of that around 35 hours of class/clinical time during the week. We desperately try not to neglect our families, but we do.

Yes, you can see who we are. Looking down the hallways, we are there. Crawling through our day, desperate to make it to bedtime. We are almost excited about the idea of completing our program, but we can't think about that right now. So much to do. Not enough time.

We drink coffee, tea, diet coke and eat anything that we think may give us the slightest bit of energy. It usually doesn't help, but it is always worth a try. Anything that may help us reach our goal: getting to next Friday, alive, awake and successful.