The Honeymoon is Over

For my DPT program, at least. I still think Jess is pretty hottsy tottsy - and I'm pretty sure he feels the same :) So, this is how I felt after my first quiz today: not so hottsy tottsy (Nally, I am determined to help you make this phrase popular!) It wasn't even necessarily that I did poorly - I think I did ok (75 to 85 range) but it felt like I just wasn't grasping the material, that even more material was starting to pile up that I hadn't even thought of getting a move on because I was too busy studying for the first quiz . . .I know everyone goes through this transition period - today was just my day to feel down for a while. I'm not smart enough, I have no friends here, nobody likes me, etc. But then we had a pretty good afternoon class, which was surprising because all I had wanted to do was go wallow at home. We did a fun activity with personality types that got us outside and talking to each other and connecting with some of our classmates - it was fun and the time (3 hours!) went fast. Maybe the gi-normous chocolate chunk cookie and the Dunkin Donuts latte helped too . . . :)

By-the-by, my personality color is BLUE - I'm emotional, receptive, caring, a good listener, mean people make me stressed, and I cry a lot. This is opposed to being ORANGE and a freedom-loving party person, or GOLD and a strict, traditional organizer, or GREEN and an analytical, scientific, precise conceptualist. Of course I've got a bit of each in me but my BLUE list was about 3 times longer than any of the other color descriptions. We all laughed a bit at each other and our selves, it got me outta feeling sorry for myself, and I learned a bit more about my classmates. I find even after all I've experienced, I'm too quick to judge people as certain types - and it's cool that I'm daily being surprised by the inclusiveness, kindness, and budding support of my fellow classmates.