Cassi Creek: I began
this journal, blog, or call it what you will in 2009. At that point in time I was returning to
school in order to audit classes. Among
other things that surfaced was the seeming difference in the behavior of
students in my undergraduate years compared to today’s undergraduates.
We took
copious notes during lectures. Today,
the students expect to have power point slide shows prepared for them to view
when they aren’t playing online games, or
engaged in some other on-line activity.
We were adept at the use of a card catalog for research purposes. Today, search engines replace those long
silent drawers of cards.
We assumed
that everything in the textbooks, everything in the lectures, and all lab
procedures and results were likely to be on an exam. Asking” will this be on the exam?” would have
been ignored by even the newest TA.
To this date,
I’ve not missed a day in adding some bit or piece of trivia, opinion, or other
useless verbiage to these files. I do it
partly as a means to assess how my response to medication is progressing. Based on the tremors present today, I’m
having sort of a less effective day.
The news
yesterday was encouraging, there may be less deficit present than I expected to
find. I may be encountering normal aging
along with Parkinson’s. The least
encouraging results yesterday put my frontal lobe performance at the overall
mean. Not where I’d choose to be if I
had the option, but I don’t, and it could be much worse.
As for the personality
assessment, I have no idea what that will indicate. I’m not suicidal, an alcoholic, likely to
start physical encounters for thrills. I
seemed to fall outside the target population the survey seemed designed to
identify. I’ll get a copy of all this
since my last neuro visit the next time I go to VA. Until then…
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