At the end of the day on July 19th,
I was officially unemployed. My dietetic
internship was complete,
I was a few weeks away from eligibility to take the Registered Dietitian exam (paperwork, etc),
and I had a lot of studying to do BEFORE I would be prepared. Alas once again I was a student with no job
and at that moment, no credentials. In
the words of Scooby doo, “Ruh roh.”
After a few days of non-sense and
reclaiming my house after 4 weeks of disorganization madness during Staff
Relief and Graduation
week, I embarked upon the daunting task of studying. The RD exam costs a few hundred dollars to
take it and I only intended to take it ONCE.
Each Dietetic Internship program (in my case, the Memphis VAMC) is
ranked by multiple components, including the first-time pass rate of its
graduates. The Memphis Director let it
be known that thus far she had a 100% success rate (against a national average
of ~82%) and that she Would. Not. Accept. Anything. Less. Fear tactic.
It totally worked. That, and I am
very thrifty.
