Merry Christmas

Wow, it's been a long time since I updated.  Sorry about that, the end of the semester didn't really mark freedom for me.  I sort of went right back to study mode, going through these MCAT books and old Calculus notes to prepare for Calc II.  But guess what? That checklist that I had put up in the last post I crossed everything off and lived to tell the story.  Those 2.5 weeks were quite hellacious actually, I'm not 100% sure how I pulled it off, averaging about 2 hours of sleep every night, studying, finishing papers, editing papers, fixing notes, studying, studying, and doing more studying.  I'm really quite proud that I made it through what was supposed to be the hardest semester of college in one piece, and pretty much pwnaging the entire semester.  So far I have all As in my classes.  I'm just waiting for one more grade, Bioinformatics, which, if I don't get an A in the class, then someone is going to be in a lot of trouble.  I didn't really have any hard finals, thankfully, one of them was open book, one was just a presentation, the other mainly on the cardiovascular system (my personal forte), and the other, well I would have had to try really hard to not do well.
My physics final was actually the final I was able to come out of with a story to tell.  Sunday night, I went to bed around 1am.  Set my alarm clock for 430am.  How I managed to get myself out of bed, I'm really not sure, but my dad always tells me how he's impressed with how I always push myself to get the things done that needs to get done.  So 4:30-6:30 I was doing some last minute studying.  My physics teacher decided to be nice and start our final an hour earlier than normally scheduled to give us an extra hour to complete the exam.  So me, being me, I was sitting in that chair at 7am.  Looking back, I probably should have just gone in at the normal starting hour, gotten an extra hour of sleep, and maybe watch the sun rise from my bedroom window.  I finished the exam at 7:30ish, and just sort of sat around and stared off out the window, and from there, I watched the sun rise. I must admit, if I wasn't so tired, I may actually have enjoyed it, physics being my last final.
So I sat around, pretended to keep on working, and when I finally got fed up with that I went up to my professor to hand in my exam, and sure enough, she asks me to stay for a little while longer.  I had some profane things running through my mind, so I just sat back down and put my head down and took a nap until the professor came back to me and told me I could leave.

Okay, I guess it's not that interesting, but it's a story nontheless.
So, after my SI student's exam, I had a nice leisurely dinner with some of my best friends @ school.  Filipino food with good friends is the best way to end an extremely difficult semester.

So since then, I've been back on the nerd grind, studying for the MCATs, and so far it's going pretty well.  I can tell that the inorganic is going to be very difficult to get through, since it's been a while since I was actually taught inorganic chemistry.
And then there's calculus.  Going through these notes, I kind of wish I took better notes at the beginning of the year, but so far I'm managing, I hope I can keep this study drive up throughout the vacation.

I have another checklist, and so far I'm keeping up, it's a whole lot more work than I was expecting though.

17 days till the end of the semester

Boy, that flew faster than the Concord once flew, but boy am I thankful.  The semester's winding down to the last few class meetings, last few exams crammed in at the last minute, and last few paper edits that need to be done.

 

And this, is what my next 17 days looks like.  I actually forgot about my dance final in there, but I guess that doesn't really count since I'm not REALLY going to be practicing a dance, that's going to be pure improv, but it'll have to do.  Supposedly you can stand in front of the class and do the robot for a minute and you'll do just dandy.  So I'll be searching through my iTunes for a piece to make something up to.  As for everything else, Physics exam, lab exam one right after another, along with presentations right after that.

I got together with my group to finish our group paper, we basically put together the whole thing, made nice transitions, and called it a day.  Revisions will come in later on in the week I suppose.  All we need to do now is work on our journal article discussion and we're set for the rest of the semester for that class.

Bioinformatics.  What do I have to say about bioinformatics.  I have a take home exam due, which I just realized isn't on the list... *adds now*, and our final is open book.  Go figures.  We'll be getting our first exam, on the last day of class.  Yes, the exam that we took about 2 months ago. yippie!

Anatomy final is on the cardiovascular system, which is probably the only thing that interests me.  I actually managed to stay somewhat focused in lecture last Friday, what a surprise.  Hopefully, this test won't be too terrible. Oh, and I have a paper and presentation still to finish up for that class.  oopsies.

Physics, I'm not too sure what I want to make of it.  I'm most definitely scared for this final.  I've been doing extremely well so far, and hopefully I havn't forgotten all the stuff from the beginning of the semester, which, in all honesty, happens quite often.

My last SI sessions with my groups are coming up.  It's sort of sad, I'm going to miss them, they really were such a great class, and made the whole experience really fun, which is something I definitely needed this semester.  I'll be baking cookies for their last session :)