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.