Daily Post 4/30

Today I went to my internship. I couldnt sign in cause the people were not there. So then I went to the cafteria and then to my building where I work. I went in and said hi to everyone. Then I got some papers and I start filing. I filed and then took a short break and called Waqar on his cell. Then I went back to filing and at 4 I came home.

Daily Post 4/29

Today I went to my internship. I signed in and went to my other building where I work. I walked in and said hi to everyone and I start filing. I filed and at 2:30 I went to check mail. I came back and went back on filing. Then at 4 I came home.

Daily Post 4/28

Today I went to my internship. I signed in and went to eat lunch. I ate and went back to the building where I work. I went in and said hi, and pulled out some charts for tomorrow. And then I took a 2 minute break and start filing again. Then it was 4 and I came home.

Three Week Voc

1. Word / Phrase: Foramen

Meaning: an opening, orifice, or short passage, as in a bone or in the integument of the ovule of a plant.

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2. Word / Phrase: Organelle

Meaning: A differentiated structure within a cell, such as a mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function.

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3. Word / Phrase: Bacillus

Meaning: Any of various rod-shaped, usually gram-positive aerobic bacteria of the genus Bacillus that often occur in chains and include Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax.

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4. Word / Phrase: Chlorpheniramine

Meaning: an antihistaminic compound, C20H23ClN2O4, used in treating the symptoms of allergies.


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5. Word / Phrase: Dementia

Meaning: severe impairment or loss of intellectual capacity and personality integration, due to the loss of or damage to neurons in the brain.

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6. Word / Phrase: Ecthyma

Meaning: a contagious viral disease of sheep and goats and occasionally of humans, marked by vesicular and pustular lesions on the lips.

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7. Word / Phrase: Epiphysis

Meaning: a part or process of a bone separated from the main body of the bone by a layer of cartilage and subsequently uniting with the bone through further ossification.

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8. Word / Phrase: Epistasis

Meaning: a form of interaction between nonallelic genes in which one combination of such genes has a dominant effect over other combinations.

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9. Word / Phrase: Neurosis

Meaning: Any of various mental or emotional disorders, such as hypochondria or neurasthenia, arising from no apparent organic lesion or change and involving symptoms such as insecurity, anxiety, depression, and irrational fears, but without psychotic symptoms such as delusions or hallucinations. No longer in scientific use.

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10. Word / Phrase: Subluxation

Meaning: a partial dislocation, as of a joint; sprain.

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11. Word / Phrase: Ectoderm

Meaning: the outer germ layer in the embryo of a metazoan.

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12. Word / Phrase: Endoderm

Meaning: the innermost body tissue that derives from this layer, as the gut lining.

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13. Word / Phrase: Mesoderm

Meaning: The middle embryonic germ layer, lying between the ectoderm and the endoderm, from which connective tissue, muscle, bone, and the urogenital and circulatory systems develop.


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14. Word / Phrase: Osteomalacia

Meaning: A disease occurring mostly in adult women that results from a deficiency in vitamin D or calcium and is characterized by a softening of the bones with accompanying pain and weakness.

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15. Word / Phrase: Osteochondrosis

Meaning: a disease of bone and cartilage growth centers in children that begins as a necrosis and is followed by regeneration or renewed calcification.


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Daily Post 4/24

Today I went to my internship. It was the last for me to make up the hours. I went in I said hi to everyone. I got papers to file. I filed them. Then I went to check and drop the mail. Then I went back to filing. Then at 12:45 I took a lunch break. I came back from it and then I answered some phone calls. Some of the callers want to make opintment and some want to talk to the doctors assitent. And then I filed some charts and then it was 4. I came home.

Daily Post 4/23

Today I went to my internship. I signed in and went to the my main building. I walked in and said hi to everyone there. Then I got papers to file. I filed them. And then I made some copies of some records. And then I took a short break for 10 minutes. Then I took the mail and went to the other building to drop it. I came back and did little bit more of filing. Then I went back to the main building across the street to get a paitents x-rays. And I came back gave them and went back to filing and then it was 4 and I came home.

Daily Post 4/22

Today I went to my internship at 8:10. I reached there 8:55. I signed in and went to my building to work. As I walk in I say hi and then they give me papers to file. I file papers for 2 hours. Then I made copies of some papers. And then I pulled out charts for Thursday for 2 different doctors. Then I took a lunch break. When I came back I faxed some papers. And did more filing. And I faxed few more papers and then it was 4 and I came home.

Daily Post 4/21

Today I went to my internship. I did 7 hours. In those 6 hours and 20 minutes I did filing. When I was there at 9:15 they gave me papers to file. I filed them and more. Then at 12:45 I took a short lunch break. When I came back mor filing and then I had to go to the basement to pull out a chart and that I couldnt find. And at 4 I came home. And now I will have to go tomorrow and do the same file.

Midpoint Reflection Questions

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?

I really didnt imagine how my internship would be, but I thought it would be tough or fun but it was ok in the beginning and now is getting boring.

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?

The difference I see is that there no one giving you lessons about everything. There are things that you do at your own. For now I just do filing or coping so based on that what skill could I have learn.

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?

My relationship with my mentor and co-worker is good so far they trust me and everything. I think as a result I am interacting with professional adults.


What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?

There is no challenge yet how can filing be a problem.

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?

I didnt face a challenge yet in school so I dont know what to say.

What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?

I am hoping to get something out of a good experience about life and much more.

What new things have you learned about New York City?

I have learned that if you now bussinessmen or women and you need to get hooked up with job or stuff like that they can hook you up.

Vocabulary

1. Word / Phrase:Myopathy

Meaning: any abnormality or disease of muscle tissue.

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2. Word / Phrase: Jaundice

Meaning: Yellowish discoloration of the whites of the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes caused by deposition of bile salts in these tissues. It occurs as a symptom of various diseases, such as hepatitis, that affect the processing of bile. Also called icterus.

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3. Word / Phrase: Peevish

Meaning: easily made angry; irritable; frequently complaining

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4. Word / Phrase: Dypnea

Meaning: difficult or labored breathing.

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5. Word / Phrase: Sympathetic nervous system

Meaning: The part of the autonomic nervous system originating in the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord that in general inhibits or opposes the physiological effects of the parasympathetic nervous system, as in tending to reduce digestive secretions, speeding up the heart, and contracting blood vessels.


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Daily Post 4/2

I went to. Then I went to my internship. I signed in. Then I went to my other building where I work. I went in and said hi to everyone. Then I start filing. Then I went to my boss and told her I am leaving for 2 weeks. Then I went back to filing. And then i went to mail room and got the mail. And then it was 4 o'clock. And I went to the other building to sign out and then went home.

Daily Post 4/1

Today I woke I went to school. Then I went to my internship. I went in to the building where I sign in, I signed in and went to my building. I said hi to everyone I was so happy today when I went to the internship. Then I asked my boss if I need to go get the mail from the main building. She said yes. I went there got the mail. And then I went to the cafiteria to see Samim. I met him and then went back to my building. Then I started filing again. Then at 3:45 I went to drop a book at the hospital library for my boss. Then at 4 I went back to my signing building and signed out. Then took F train and then switched to Q and reached home safily.