Well, here it is, final exam week. My Swedish massage written final was a cakewalk, and I I did pretty well on the practical exam as well. The one I was really worried about was Shiatsu- I’ve been really struggling in that class, passed the midterm by the skin of my teeth. But when I saw the test paper today, I had a score of 91.5%, and I picked up another 8.5 on bonus questions, which means I ended up with 100%. I got an A, and I had been sweating the exam pretty seriously.
Makes me more hopeful for my Musculoskeletal Anatomy final. I would have flunked the midterm, even though I studied hard for the entire week before, but nobody in the entire class did well, so she graded on a curve, which brought my grade up into just barely passing territory. (The head of the Massage program had a little talk with her- when an entire class of more than twenty people does badly on an exam, it’s probably the instructor’s fault.)
After a few weeks of working with flash cards, I’ve been doing some intensive review this past week, and I think I’m ready.
And now to share just how odd I am: I read the title as “Woohoo, I got a Shiatsu Funeral” and I opened the thread to find out just what the heck a shiatsu funeral was…
Sanguine Spider, the idea came to me in a dream. No, really…
But it made sense. I’m one of those people who is always going up to friends, coworkers, etc. who look like they’re in pain and giving them a back or shoulder rub. Might as well get paid for it, right?
Hell, yeah. Most states you can’t just hang a shingle. You have to have certain minimum educational requirements, and take either the National or State Exam (some states will accept the national instead of the state exam, some you have to have both, some states there is no statewide licensing, and the requirements are determined by the municipality).
But to pass the national and most state exams, you have to have courses in anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, shiatsu, pathology…
I still have a semester to go- I’m taking my classes at a community college. Of course, you can get done a lot faster if you go to a vo-tech school, but hard and expensive experience has taught me that vo-tech schools are to be avoided.