I have my meeting to supposedly finalize my rotation schedule tomorrow so I’m trying to figure out what swaps would work with what’s open on the scheduling website right now. Of course, that will probably change to some degree since a couple people have meetings before me tomorrow morning.
I’m extremely frustrated, though, because they scheduled me for a Small Animal Medicine rotation during a block I fully know I requested as a vacation. And I WILL be taking it as a vacation block because nobody messes with my MN State Fair time. Plus, it’s during a time period that I think might fall during CT scan time, thus reducing the number of times I have to request off for CT scans and subsequent meetings with my oncologist. However, there’s a problem. As a small animal track student, we are required to take 4 Small Animal Medicine (SAM) rotations. The scheduling site shows how many students are scheduled each block and the minimum and maximum number of students allowed. But ALL the SAM rotations every block appear to be at the max. Every single one. WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!
I am getting extremely frustrated because there are a few other changes I want to be able to make to my schedule but they kind of hinge on the schedulers letting me take a SAM as my very last block (where they scheduled me for an externship I did not request. Plus they always tell us not to schedule an externship for the last block due to grading issues. How kind of the schedulers to do that thing that I wasn’t supposed to do for me. Blehhh). There are openings for it, but they’re theoretically reserved for the class the graduates the year following my graduation as we overlap our first/last rotations with another class.
I know I’ll get it sorted out in one way or another tomorrow, and perhaps in the days that follow, but I am so incredibly frustrated by the whole mess right now. Even my proposed, modified schedule is kind of a nightmare as it’s very poorly balanced but at least it gets everything I need in it. Blargh. I wish I could just start from scratch and make it all pretty. This is especially hard because my schedule that was supposed to happen this year before the cancer mess happened was so close to being perfect. Grumble grumble.
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