🎓WE PAID TUITION FOR THIS
This citation style has haunted us for the entirety of the OTD program.
What is APA 7th edition?
This professor famously said, “I’m minding my business.”
Who is Professor Johnson?
Before anyone sends an email about an assignment, this question inevitably appears in the group chat.
What is “Who wants to email the professor to ask?”
This model considers the person, environment, and occupation.
What is PEOP?
The unofficial fuel of graduate school.
What is caffeine?
The one word that can instantly make an OT student nervous because graduation depends on completing it.
What is a capstone?
This professor gave us the very welcome announcement: “Research meeting canceled.”
Who is Dr. Edwards?
According to cohort lore, asking too many questions resulted in this professor grading us harder.
Who is Dr. Sauber?
This assessment requires nine pegs, nine holes, and an OT student desperately trying not to drop anything.
What is the Nine-Hole Peg Test?
The appropriate number of drinks after submitting your final didactic assignment.
What is “however many you want”?
This action means, “I waited way too long to do this assingment.”
What is “submitted at 11:59 PM”?
This professor told us, “Here’s my cell phone number, text me whenever.”
Who is Dr. Johnson?
While driving to one of our different class locations, this classmate almost forgot where she was going and drove all the way home.
Who is Lexi?
This piece of equipment has probably saved both patients AND our backs during transfers.
What is a gait belt?
This classmate is most likely to convince everyone that “one drink” should become a night out.
Who is Celina?
This is the educational experience where you finally get to prove you actually know how to be an OT.
What is fieldwork?
This professor told our cohort, “You guys challenge me to be creative.”
Who is Dr. Carpenter?
After we were told we could NOT have this ceremony, our cohort took matters into our own hands and emailed the Dean—only to essentially be told, “No. Listen to Dr. Sauber.”
What is a White Coat Ceremony?
NBCOT loves this answer when every intervention option sounds correct.
What is “client-centered”?
This classmate would be the first person voted off the island if our cohort were on Survivor.
Who is Maraevena?
This Huntington-specific assignment/project/event caused our cohort the MOST collective emotional damage.
What is the Business Plan Proposal?
After apparently throwing a little shade, this professor asked, “Did anyone realize I was being salty?”
Who is Dr. Sauber?
These six classmates somehow ended up being pulled into a meeting to defend themselves over a conversation they apparently weren’t even having.
Who are Tanaya, John, Chloe, Rachel, Marevena, and Marie?
You have researched for three hours, consulted your textbook, searched PubMed, and asked three OTs—and the answer is still this.
What is “it depends”?
After surviving didactics, fieldwork, research, presentations, group projects, and APA 7, this is what every member of the cohort deserves.
What is a vacation?