startin' volunteerin at Georgia Health, where heather was in the hospital, on Sunday. pretty much whenever I wanna go, but ill probably do 8-12, go out to lunch with heather and she can quiz me on this A&P stuff. 

 

volunteering seems alright, they gave me a list of tasks possible, chavent even looked at it yet.  everyone was excited, cuz now they have a bitch to help out, haha.

 

met this one woman who's husband is in the Army working at the hospital on base.  She was mid to late 30's, hot as hell. 

 

oh yeah dude, one guy in the ICU wing, probably our age, said he was content where he was in life, when the assistant manager (who was showing me around) asked him if he was going for further education.  that nurse basically said he liked doing patient care mroe than anything else.  I was like, jesus, are you kidding me?  sure its not bad - at times, still cant imagine it being great after a few years - but come on man, more money, more autonomy, more responsibility and leadership capabilities.   

 

he also said one kid graduated from nursing school, worked in the ICU for a year and got accepted into anasthetist school, and was gone.  i think yuou told me about a few people at UPMC that did that.  apparently that kid had a high GPA and his gf said he'd lock himself in a room for the better part of a day to study.

 

watched the first hour of that Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.  even heather said to turn it off "its been boring."  prett much.  though I will say that ETC master's degree (Entertainment something something) is probably the best virtual reality programs in the world. the program has no Dean to report to, only the CMU provost, there's no curriculum, just 4 semesters, a project in a team of 4 every 2 or 3 weeks, 5 projects a semester, every project you get 3 new partners.  each partner rates you on a bunch of different criteria against your peers, so you have 15 data points on each criterium. management is huge outside of academia.  its a program of artists and engineers working together.   its so good of a program that companies signed contracts hiring students before they're even accepted into the program.

 

ironic part is Randy got that idea from working at Disney's Imagineer place.  not even original.  of course real world applications are the best.

 

they implemented a project, called Alice, to teach programming to kids, make it fun while learning.  no idea how great it would be.  programming sucks.  i'd assume most programmers are programming databases these days.  nobody wants to do that.

 

studying sucks after a while.