Dec 14, 2007 00:05
I am tired, but I am done. With academics and biology exams for a while. I spent most of yesterday and this morning studying for my Biol 404, which I'd thankfully spent a day or two going over meticulously, so when that exam came, I left it feeling pretty confident. It was like biology regurgitation the entire time; for the questions I wasn't entirely sure of, I spent time writing the entire process/mechanism down as a mode of remembering what I'd learned before... it actually helped, so I am glad. :) I've gotten ridiculously good grades in that class, so if I nail this final, I'm permanently set for a >3.5 gpa in this class. Right now the classes I'm most worried about are Chem 242 and Biol 462, but regardless --- it was during the finals week that I felt this huge exciting swell in my heart to study physiology. Like, I literally love what I am learning and because this quarter gave me more time to focus on my academics, I finally realize what I've been missing out on because of all my activities and preoccupations of the previous years. And I do now realize that if I really wanted that >3.5 gpa in any class, I would have gotten it if I'd given myself the time to sit down and go through my lectures. And, typing lectures in my laptop EXTREMELY helped. I'm pretty sure it gave me the great advantage in my last Biol 404 exam, since the professors focused on relatively obscure topics as exam problems, and since I always format my typed out lectures, I usually end up studying them slide for slide naturally anyway. That was a terrible sentence. Regardless, medicine is still my natural pathway in the horizon, and I don't know where it may lead me, but I do know that I am one step closer to loving its application. But of course, there's grad school, which I am still banking on going.
Right now I just have a bunch of stuff to do, namely;
(1) Pick up the projector from the ECC at 8am (tomorrow)
(2) Pike place market with Krystle around 11am. Hang out!
(3) Buy kuya's economics books, Johanna's harajuku watch, and the guitar hero bundle.
(4) Deal with the checking situation.
(5) Pack up and leave.
Too much to do in so little time! But I've got it. Relaxation doesn't start until I sleep in my own room in the Philippines.