Stress Overload

I officially have only five school days left until I start my externship. You would think this would be the time I would be excited (and nervous) about what is to come. I am having a very hard time seeing the "light at the end of the tunnel" though. I have SO much to do in those five days, I have found myself crying when I get home from school because of the overload of stress I've been dealing with. I still don't have an extern site lined up which is making me very scared because I still have to go through the interview process with that particular site AND they have to except me before I can work for them. If that's not bad enough, I have four tests (including a HUGE instrument test that includes every dental instrument in every specific dental field, and there are a lot of them). On top of that I have to complete my senior check-offs, which involves doing everything I have ever learned over again and getting each thing checked off by the teacher. The senior check-offs is another big one because it also includes naming all of the instruments out loud to the teacher and I can't have my big instrument test count for it (bummer).


The two week Christmas break was a big issue for me because I feel like I have forgotten a lot of the instruments that I had learned before the break. If all of this wasn't bad enough, the director of my program, Dr. Reff, is a VERY hard man to get in touch of. He is the director of both the hygiene and dental assisting programs and he is a busy man. It is through him that I set up my extern site, so I'm getting really nervous about the time crunch that I am now in. To put the cherry on top of the cake, so to speak, my CPR card has my name spelled wrong on it (they spelled my name Lindsat) which is a big mistake to have going into my externship. It has, so far, taken the school about eight weeks to fix, and I still haven't gotten it back yet.

Because of all these issues, I've been going into school early and staying really late to try and finish all this work.

Wish me good luck because the next five days are going to be BUSY BUSY BUSY for me.