Pharmacy school expulsion

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Just some advice... when you start rotations do not be tardy. You have to learn to tough it out, I've had my share of sleepless nights or nights where you get 2-4 (last night was one of those for me, went to bed around 12:30 and woke up at 4:45am to get ready and leave for my rotation) hours but you still need to have the drive and discipline to get up and get out to be where you need to be at certain times.

That being said... being expelled for 2 tardy episodes is absurd and way too heavy handed. I doubt that will happen. If you're on medication that shouldn't hurt you, but also don't try to use that as a crutch. Being on Adderall or having ADHD really isn't a proper excuse for being late.
 
Digsbe said:
Just some advice... when you start rotations do not be tardy. You have to learn to tough it out, I've had my share of sleepless nights or nights where you get 2-4 (last night was one of those for me, went to bed around 12:30 and woke up at 4:45am to get ready and leave for my rotation) hours but you still need to have the drive and discipline to get up and get out to be where you need to be at certain times.

That being said... being expelled for 2 tardy episodes is absurd and way too heavy handed. I doubt that will happen. If you're on medication that shouldn't hurt you, but also don't try to use that as a crutch. Being on Adderall or having ADHD really isn't a proper excuse for being late.
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That! :beat::clap::claps:
 
Yeah I have basically no sympathy for being tardy. Once a year in an extreme case, sure. But you know what time class is and when to wake up to make it in on time. If you are "almost" late every day then you are basically asking for one small thing to go wrong one morning that will set you back to be late that day. Make your goal to be early so you are never late.

You will not be expelled though. No way.
 
Expulsion would be a major overreaction... I'm not sure why you're even worried.
 
Yeah, a lot of people in my class had "ADD" too. It's not an excuse and when your opening the pharmacy and there's people sitting there waiting from the ER, your going to tell them you have ADD so that's why your late but don't worry I took a bunch of C2s so everything is hunky dory?... [emoji19]


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Its weird that the OP's school cares about students showing up to class on time. I feel like in college, you can just show up whenever you want as long as you dont disrupt class. The only thing that you have to be on time for is exams and scheduled labs.
 
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Yeah, a lot of people in my class had "ADD" too. It's not an excuse and when your opening the pharmacy and there's people sitting there waiting from the ER, your going to tell them you have ADD so that's why your late but don't worry I took a bunch of C2s so everything is hunky dory?... [emoji19]


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Actually I wouldn't be late to work because I wouldn't have to take my medication that i have been prescribed for 6 years so late in the day and i would be able to sleep and wake up on time.
 
We had something called an alarm clock when I was in school.

I believe you have one of those on your phone. A student once showed me an app where you have to get up and take a picture of an object to turn it off. I'd recommend that.
 
I am glad you are talking about this. If you can't go to school on time and later cannot go to work on time. Might as well just quit pharmacy school because you will get fired for being late when you get a job. Quit before you get too many loans. Be an Uber driver. Being late does not matter. Own your own business, can't get fired. Pharmacy managers are more strict than deans at a school, they do not tolerate tardiness. If you are tardy during your probation period as a pharmacist, you will be let go immediately.
 
Technically a school can expel you for anything they want to (unless its otherwise exempted by federal law--ie race, religion, etc......assuming you are at a public school, private schools are different but since pretty much all of them accept federal funds/loans, this would also apply to them.) But I can't imagine a school would actually expel you for being late twice to class (even a rotation probably wouldn't fail you for that.....but more than twice would be pushing it.)

That said, why are you taking your Adderal so late in the day? If you know it affects your sleep, you need to take it earlier. It sounds like you are taking it later, so you can stay up later to study (or party?) This is a bad idea, take your adderal at the same time every day. And then get to class on time, everyone has a sleepless night from time to time for a variety of reasons (storms, crying baby, emotional state, etc.).....your workplace won't care and will fire you for this. So use school for practice, to figure out what you need to do to be able to be on time.
 
Why doesn't anyone question why someone must attend lecture? (I saw the OP post at work before it was deleted). Last time I checked, schools don't pay you to be at lecture. What the **** kind of pharmacy school is this?

Seminars, rotations, and courses with low enrollment are one thing, but forcing mandatory attendance for run-of-the-mill pharmacy school lectures is a complete joke.

If you don't want to attend lectures, that should be your choice. If you went to a big land-grant university, no one would notice and no one would give a **** if you missed an "intro" lecture, which is what pretty much every "foundational" pharmacy school course is (pharmaceutics, pharmacology, therapeutics, etc., etc.). Even for medical school, often students find attending lecture inefficient and would rather study on their own time.
 
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