Is this really school?

Sorry to my 1 or 2 loyal readers, but I haven't posted in a while. It's been a boring couple weeks and a great last week since my last posting!
Nothing much to report from school the last few weeks. I'm still learning some pretty cool new stuff and still trying to stay awake during class :)
Last Friday we learned how to decrease swelling by 95% over a 48 hour span with just some simple light touch techniques. It was actually really cool!! It needed to be something cool like that to keep our attention because most of our class had been in Vegas all week.

Yep, the school bussed us to Sin City for our national PT conference. There were over 7000 people there to learn a few new things, reunite with friends and colleagues and well have a few drinks and gamble!
Since we are first year students we wouldn't normally have this opportunity. It is usually reserved for 2nd and 3rd year students. But since it was so close they decided we could go too. Besides, our classes were canceled for the week due to the fact that most of our faculty were attending and presenting at the conference!! This was one of the things that told me that while I pay a LOT for my tuition, I'm learning from a faculty where most of them are regarded as leaders in their fields, some are even considered world leaders! I can have a beer inside Coyote Ugly with a professor that had earlier that day commanded the attention of a couple thousand PTs there to hear him speak! How cool is that?
I won't bore you with the details of the conference but let's just say I didn't attend every session every day ;)
The first night we were there our class hook-up got us a section and bottle service at Prive' in Cesar's Palace. It was a cool place. We drank and danced up a storm, then went home to grab a few hours sleep before the next day began.
Night #2 brought us yet another club (Pure) and more sections and bottle service. But before that we went to a USC sponsored happy hour at Coyote Ugly to raise money for a nationwide PT fund raising campaign. It was fun on both accounts. Afterward I did some horrible gambling then more shut eye. Night #3 was decidedly more low key. We went to dinner at a Churrascaria (Brazilian steak house) and ate a ton of great food, then did a little more gambling. This was not a good betting trip for me. Between black jack and craps I couldn't sustain any winning momentum and ended up coming home down money :( Luckily my tax refund will be bigger than expected ;)
That pretty well sums up the M-Th afternoon of last week. Next comes the rest of the weekend...