YAAAAAY YAAAAAY YAAAAAAAAAAAY
I got an A in Microbiology!
...okay, gotta add more to it than that. Coming up on the final, I had a 95% in the class. But our two finals (lab and written) totaled out to approximately half our grade at a whopping two hundred points total. So there was a massive opportunity to tank my grade, particularly on the cumulative written final - one hundred questions, worth one hundred points. Sixty multiple choice, forty matching.
So...I studied. A lot. Pretty much non-stop for a solid week leading up to the written final, which was on Tuesday. Our lab final was to be on Wednesday, our last day of class. I mean, I went so far as to ask raerae639 out to lunch and beg her to quiz me on flash-cards after we'd eaten. I was that worried about it.
So went in, took the final, felt like it was pretty brutal (I had studied my ass off, and still felt like I guessed on a LOT of questions), and walked out with a big question mark hanging over my head as to how the hell I did. I was sure I passed it, but I had no idea what degree of passing I had achieved. So I went home and spent the evening reviewing my lab notes.
The next day, I saw my prof in the store where I worked, and she told me what the results were. She also told me that I passed. I walked over to one of my coworkers, who heard the exchange. We looked at each other, and then I just went "WHEE!" and fist-pumped, and my coworker laughed at me.
When I went to class that night, I got the whole story - of the maybe...twelve people in the class, three of us had passed the written final. The highest grade in the class was an 81% - two people had gotten that score. One person had gotten a 75, and...that was as good as it got. So she showed us our grades and where we stood going into the lab final.
I was one of the 81% scores on the written portion.
Long story short (TOO LATE) I got a 90% on the lab final. I missed one question...but that one question was worth ten points. Whoops ^^;; Either way, it was enough to land me my A in the course! I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT!
I liked Micro a lot more than I thought I would - to the point where my parents had to make a 'no bacteria at the dinner table' rule after the topic of e.coli somehow came up and I, err...started sharing my new-found knowledge *koff* Although it was pretty funny when I mentioned Toxic Shock Syndrome and got my dad to start talking about tampons =P
And I feel like I actually learned things in that class - like, I would come home and tell my parents, "Tonight I learned what bacteria produce the three deadliest toxins known to man - tetanus, botulism, and e.coli" or "Did you know that honey contains botulism spores?" or "There is a parasitic fish in the Amazon that can, will, and has been proven to swim up a man's penis!"
So yeah! Three classes left - Physiology this summer, and then...Organic Chem *gulp*
On we go. Almost there.
I can do this!
...okay, gotta add more to it than that. Coming up on the final, I had a 95% in the class. But our two finals (lab and written) totaled out to approximately half our grade at a whopping two hundred points total. So there was a massive opportunity to tank my grade, particularly on the cumulative written final - one hundred questions, worth one hundred points. Sixty multiple choice, forty matching.
So...I studied. A lot. Pretty much non-stop for a solid week leading up to the written final, which was on Tuesday. Our lab final was to be on Wednesday, our last day of class. I mean, I went so far as to ask raerae639 out to lunch and beg her to quiz me on flash-cards after we'd eaten. I was that worried about it.
So went in, took the final, felt like it was pretty brutal (I had studied my ass off, and still felt like I guessed on a LOT of questions), and walked out with a big question mark hanging over my head as to how the hell I did. I was sure I passed it, but I had no idea what degree of passing I had achieved. So I went home and spent the evening reviewing my lab notes.
The next day, I saw my prof in the store where I worked, and she told me what the results were. She also told me that I passed. I walked over to one of my coworkers, who heard the exchange. We looked at each other, and then I just went "WHEE!" and fist-pumped, and my coworker laughed at me.
When I went to class that night, I got the whole story - of the maybe...twelve people in the class, three of us had passed the written final. The highest grade in the class was an 81% - two people had gotten that score. One person had gotten a 75, and...that was as good as it got. So she showed us our grades and where we stood going into the lab final.
I was one of the 81% scores on the written portion.
Long story short (TOO LATE) I got a 90% on the lab final. I missed one question...but that one question was worth ten points. Whoops ^^;; Either way, it was enough to land me my A in the course! I DID IT I DID IT I DID IT!
I liked Micro a lot more than I thought I would - to the point where my parents had to make a 'no bacteria at the dinner table' rule after the topic of e.coli somehow came up and I, err...started sharing my new-found knowledge *koff* Although it was pretty funny when I mentioned Toxic Shock Syndrome and got my dad to start talking about tampons =P
And I feel like I actually learned things in that class - like, I would come home and tell my parents, "Tonight I learned what bacteria produce the three deadliest toxins known to man - tetanus, botulism, and e.coli" or "Did you know that honey contains botulism spores?" or "There is a parasitic fish in the Amazon that can, will, and has been proven to swim up a man's penis!"
So yeah! Three classes left - Physiology this summer, and then...Organic Chem *gulp*
On we go. Almost there.
I can do this!