Going to CPT

CPT was a grueling program with a high dropout/failure rate.  Only about one-third of the people that started the program graduated.  The program was a year long including the internship.  That sounds easy but trust me, the school was rough.  

We went to class eight hours a day, five days a week.  They gave us so much homework that I spent an average of four hours a night working on homework and studying.  I did not see a TV or read for pleasure for the entire year.

There was an accumulative test every Friday.  If you did not pass the test with score of eighty percent or better you went on academic probation.  Academic probation meant you had to do extra assignments to prove that you learned the material you missed on the test that got you on probation in the first place.  All of this on top of the normal assignments.  

You had three weeks to pull yourself out of probation or get dropped from the program.  It was brutal.   If you went on probation three times, you were automatically dropped from the program.  I went on probation one time, which was enough for me.  I have never had it so hard to this day.  I have been through some very hard days.

I stuck with the program and graduated near the top of my class in 1990.  I gave a speech at the graduation which was a big honor for me.  

© David Diggs 2013