Getting a Life

By Samantha Weatherford   I was recently asked on a phone interview, “What do you like to do outside of speech therapy?” Oh. My. Gosh. What do I like to do? I have no idea. I have been studying speech-language pathology (SLP) for the past six years, and two of those six have been nonstop SLP. I am good at speech therapy and I am not good at a lot of things, so I really need to take advantage. I eat, sleep, and breathe SLP. My friends are speechies. My role models are speechies. I only take SLP classes. I blog about SLP. I attend SLP conferences. I watch movies like The King’s Speech and Children of a Lesser God. I read books like Look Up for Yes and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. I love being an SLP student. Unfortunately, I do not even know what normal things I like to do anymore. Since classes have ended and employment has begun, I can see some kind of light at the end of the insane grad school tunnel. I want to share that hope with you. Students are sucked into a bizarre lifestyle. We are doing something constantly. If I am not doing something, I am probably asleep. I worked a million jobs as an undergraduate student, joined organizations, and took night and early morning classes. Throw homework and studying on top, and you have got yourself a packed lifestyle. I have always found time for friends, family, and general troublemaking, and it is important to do so, but that only adds to the stress and obligation. You suddenly find yourself doing homework at 6...
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