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Wow guys, sorry about the massive gap! I've been so distracted with life recently that i havent had a chance to sit down and write.

I recently got a new Job at the local cinema, and its EXCELLENT! Free films for me and my mates whenever I want, and I i get to see big films before there release date... Its no wonder I feel like I live there! The release of the last Harry Potter movie has been manic, I've been working 40+ hours a week. I'm starting to really really resent other Harry Potter fans, just because they make SO MUCH MESS! more mess than I have ever seen!

But anyway, other than my new job, I got my results last week. So all that stressing about not being prepared enough, well I guess in the end, that I was!

I got a First :)

I was very surprised because I was sure that I was doomed, but there we go. So September 19th I return to University as a full blown official first year medical student. How exciting?!?! I know its going to be major hard work, and im really going to have to get off my arse and work it off, but right now, im just trying to enjoy the summer.

Work hard, play harder.

Exam in an hour!!!

I have the biggest exam of my life in less than an hour...
I'm too stressed to re read notes, I'm to stressed to do anything other than sit here and have a mini panic attack.

I wish I was prepared. I wish I stood a chance at passing.

This is going to be an epic fail.

Watch this space.

Exams and Loans

Wow, it really has been a while! I've missed out the whole of April, but i have had good reasons. I've been studying my butt off over Easter. Okay, thats a lie, but I have been studying more than normal. I've got 3 exams over the next month, all of which im un-prepared for.

I have my medicine module exam on the 9th of may, then a Chemistry exam on the 18th of May, finally i have my Biology exam on the 1st of June, then i'm all done for this year.

Then my plans after that are to stay at my uni halls, to make the most of them, after all, i am paying a ridiculous amount to live here. Then on the 20th June i move in to my amazing double room in our brand new 6 bedroom house. The house itself is 5 minutes walk from campus, and about 20mins walk to the hospital, im so lucky! I can't even explain how excited i am to move in :D Im sharing with my cousin and 4 other girls and its going to be great :) I've already picked out the curtains haha.

Anyway, this summer im after a job, to try and make a positive dent into my overdraft. The concept of an overdraft is an entirely new thing to me, i had to go to the bank last month and get one out of nessecity! Im already -£250, which is a hideous thought. Another hideous thought is that so far, im in approximately £10,000 debt. After just one year !!!! Its a hard life for a student. But the debt ends up getting so high that the numbers dont really mean anything anymore. The idea of £10,000 is just ludicrous to me. Its such a large amount of money that i just dont recognise it, i cant get my head around it so i just look at it as a figure not a real debt.

Another funny thing about debt is that the students here are almost in competition with eachother. We all face debt of some magnitude by coming to university, but those who have racked up more of it than others are looked at with some kind of hero worship. We brag about our debt, we go down the pub and collectively laugh off the seriousness of it and revel in eachother stories about how it all got so much!

Anyway, last month saw my 4 year anniversary with my boyfriend. We've been together now since I was 15 and he, 16. We didnt do anything special, just dinner and a movie. We cant really afford to do anything exciting. I cant really afford to do anything to be honest! We went and saw Fast and Furious Five... it was amazing! The best one of the series. If you go to see it, make sure you stay until after the credits. Theres a sneaky extra bit which sets up the next Fast and Furious film im sure they're making.

I need to get back to work... If only revising could be fun, then maybe i would spend less time procrastinating. My procrastination of this week has been the Vampire Diaries. I've sat and watched them all to date in order (obviously). And i have completely fallen in love with Damon Salvatore/Ian Somerhalder, who is ... well... WOW.

So anyway, off to the library.
FML.

Revision season

Yes my friends, it is indeed that time of year again!

I only have one week left of lectures before the Easter Holidays. We return and the whole university enters full exam mode. I plan on staying at university for most of the holidays to revise, and revise hard! I need to pass these exams, and I need to do well in them, even if it means taking a sleeping bag to the library and setting up camp on the medical floor.

The lectures that are left are all revision, starting with cystic fibrosis! Did you know theres over 1,400 types of mutation that can cause cystic fibrosis? No, neither did I. But we do now.

And on another note entirely, I cant wait for my beautiful friends and boyfriend to all come home from uni so we can go on our many adventures. We already have some planned, including camping and night fishing, LOTS of picnics, regardless of the weather and fancy dress parties! We dont get much time all together now a days, so when we party, we party hard.

By the lake

The past few days have been really sunny and warm. I managed to get my first sun burn of the year. I'm really fair, so I burn really easy. Still, it made me realise that summer is on its way :) The warm weather makes everyone nicer people. Everyone around campus was smiling today. Our tutor is italian and like most italians living in the UK, she loves the sun, which is why we took our medicine seminars out by the lake today. It really made everyone in our group more productive and we came out with some really good stuff. The music students set up on the lawn by the lake and played chill summer music all afternoon. The smell of BBQs from across the grass, the bright warm sun and the cool breeze from the lake... It was bliss.

Interviews

We helped out with the interviews for the next lot of potential medical students. The interviews are done over 3 days, and today was the first. When I was walking down to the Med building, I was re-living all the nerves I felt on my interview day; which was just over a year ago. I came to the interviews on my own, and in my own typical fashion, managed to get ridiculously lost. I asked repeatedly for people to show me to the school of medicine, but everytime I was directed back to the on-campus doctors surgery.

I made it to the building just in time though, I was so stressed out from the journey I ended up having no time for nerves waiting to go in. The interviews are done in a speed-dating kind of way, with 3 rooms and a different interviewer in each. My first interview went really well, but my second, the interviewer me RIPPED ME APART! It was so dreadful. I've later learnt that she is a course director and is yet to crack a smile, or show any other emotion other than contempt. By the time I got to the last booth I'd given up all hope on ever making it as a doctor.

Alas, a year later I'm on the other side of the table, helping out with the interviews for the next bunch. Some of the people we saw were completely arrogant and will never make it with their head so far up their own a***. Others were just radiating nervousness. No-one broke down in tears today, which I was expecting (as at least 2 people cried during my interview a year previous). Oh well, maybe we'll get a cryer next week. Heres to hoping!

Heroes and Headaches

The first post is always the hardest. I say this, but I've yet to get past the first entry of a blog. This time will be different though, I hope to stick at it.

I woke up this morning, late. Meaning that I missed all of my morning lectures; and I probably would have made it to my afternoon lectures, if it wasnt for the splitting headache I woke up with. When I eventually rolled out of bed like the cavewoman I felt like, it just got worse. My laptop was dead. No, not dead, just in a sulk. After much coaxing by the University IT staff and myself, its allowed me use of mozilla firefox, and mozilla firefox only. I've lost most of my work (which im annoyed about) and all of my music and photos (which im LIVID about). But oh well, whats a gal to do?

I have 2 assignments for my chemistry module due on wednesday. One on enthalpies and the other is a horrid booklet of questions I stand no chance on getting right. I should have done them by now, but unfortuantly my best friend came to stay for a day and brought with her the complete series of Heroes, and because of my addictive nature, I cant stop watching them. If I had a superpower, it would be the ability to pause/rewind time, so maybe I could go back and never start watching Heroes, failing that I could just pause time whilst I complete all the work Im supposed to be doing.

But hey, if I fail out of Med school Im going develop super powers and save the world. So its not all that bad.