Becoming a Pharmacy Technician - Part 9 - Rescheduled Again

I rescheduled my exam one more time. I received an email letting me know that the Pre-Pharmacy Association was meeting tonight at 7pm, which would have overlapped with my PTCE taking time, so I pushed it back a day. (I did the actual rescheduling yesterday morning of course, since the rescheduling has to take place at least 24 hours prior the the scheduled time.)

A UCSF student came to answer any and every question, and there was a lot of info given out for the 2+ hours she was there. I'll go through that in more detail when I have more time to go through all the notes I took.

One thing that's relevant for the exam that I'll be taking tomorrow is that the way she became a pharm tech, is the same way I'll be doing it. But she wasn't as paranoid as me when it came to studying. She said she bought a book at Borders, studied for just a week, then took the test and passed.

I'm going to be spending some time looking over the material again, and I'll be ready to take the exam. I think I'm not going to stress over trying to learn the 200+ drugs. I'll look through it some, but it doesn't look like it's necessary to pass if you know everything else.

I'll learn about the drugs on the job, and have an easier time learning about them since they'll have some context for me. I just need the license to get to that point. So that's it. Good luck to me. I'll be back to report tomorrow on how I do.

Undergrad Degree Delayed

Due to reduced support from the California Legislature and the governor, Winter 2010 has been canceled.

Well, that's depressing.  I got a text from my friend, and my hopes for finishing my final class in the short winter session have been crushed.  I'll now have to go through the full Spring semester before I can finally get that degree.

The BECA (Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts) Department was very helpful in putting up more information that I could find in the main SFSU website, as well as offer up options on how to voice complaints to the state.

Frustrated by the lack of available classes? The state cut the CSU and SFSU’s budget by over 20%, so there is no money to offer more BECA classes or teach more students. The best thing all students can do right now is to contact the following state decision makers and make sure they know how their decision to cut the CSU is impacting your life. Below is a list of legislators to contact.

A student complaint form can be downloaded in pdf format at the beca.sfsu.edu website, as well as contact information for:

-Governor: Arnold Schwarzenegger
-U.S. Senator: Dianne Feinstein
-U.S. Senator: Barbara Boxer
-State Senator: Sen. Leland Yee
-State Representative: Fiona Ma