I'm no longer going to class regularly.
Last weekend was a three day weekend, which I spent studying Respiratory Physiology. I had two breaks: dinner with friends at a Vietnamese place (where one of my friends got food poisoning) and lunch with mentor from the Health Department. I spent the rest of those three days with my nose in several physiology books. Then Tuesday morning at 9 comes the exam. It's all on computer. Well, the entire class tries to log on and nothing happens. The computer won't give us our personalized passwords.
They have to delay the test in order to get the computers back online and recognizing our info. What a way to let the test anxiety build up. We finally get to take the test, which has to have been the hardest test I've ever taken in my entire life. We had 39 questions to do in 1 hour. We needed one and a half hours. The questions aren't ones where I can go through, ruling out A because it's backwards, ruling out B because that doesn't happen in those circumstances, and then it's between C and D, and I know it's got to be D because I remember hearing that in lecture.
It's more like:
A. Why can't it be A? Well, it can't be A because when the lungs take in oxygen they expand, which implies...blah blah
B. Why can't it be B? B's saying that if the patient's hypoventilating at high altitude...but this pattern's commonly seen if they're at sea level.
C. Why can't it be C? Okay, if ventilation is this, and perfusion is this, that means it's a physiologic shunt, which is just like hypoventilation...now what effect does that have on CO2?
D. Why can't it be D? Because...OH NO! I'VE GOT 1O MINUTES LEFT BEFORE TIME IS UP AND I'VE GOT 12 MORE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER!
I have never ever studied so hard for an exam and done so poorly. I wasn't the only one who had problems. The entire class was upset. Some girls left the room crying. I didn't cry, but I did make a grade worth crying over. One of my classmates emailed the professor, saying that she didn't feel like the test was a representative assessment of the knowledge that we had learned, and the time limit was too strict. His response: we'll look into the time issue. however, 2 people made a 100%, so it couldn't have been that bad of an exam.
I previously liked this professor.
If I go to class every day and pay attention and take good notes, and then go home and study and make that kind of grade, then I'm going to stop attending class. It's not as productive for me as my independent studying. I've kept going out of guilt. No more. The powerpoint slides, the syllabus, and my 7 textbooks ought to be enough that I can teach this to myself and email professors with questions.
Then that day, we had our last day of gross anatomy class. We dissected the larynx. Now, we no longer have to go down there, except to study our cadavers for our exam on Monday. I'm going to be so happy when I no longer have gross anatomy to worry about.
They have to delay the test in order to get the computers back online and recognizing our info. What a way to let the test anxiety build up. We finally get to take the test, which has to have been the hardest test I've ever taken in my entire life. We had 39 questions to do in 1 hour. We needed one and a half hours. The questions aren't ones where I can go through, ruling out A because it's backwards, ruling out B because that doesn't happen in those circumstances, and then it's between C and D, and I know it's got to be D because I remember hearing that in lecture.
It's more like:
A. Why can't it be A? Well, it can't be A because when the lungs take in oxygen they expand, which implies...blah blah
B. Why can't it be B? B's saying that if the patient's hypoventilating at high altitude...but this pattern's commonly seen if they're at sea level.
C. Why can't it be C? Okay, if ventilation is this, and perfusion is this, that means it's a physiologic shunt, which is just like hypoventilation...now what effect does that have on CO2?
D. Why can't it be D? Because...OH NO! I'VE GOT 1O MINUTES LEFT BEFORE TIME IS UP AND I'VE GOT 12 MORE QUESTIONS TO ANSWER!
I have never ever studied so hard for an exam and done so poorly. I wasn't the only one who had problems. The entire class was upset. Some girls left the room crying. I didn't cry, but I did make a grade worth crying over. One of my classmates emailed the professor, saying that she didn't feel like the test was a representative assessment of the knowledge that we had learned, and the time limit was too strict. His response: we'll look into the time issue. however, 2 people made a 100%, so it couldn't have been that bad of an exam.
I previously liked this professor.
If I go to class every day and pay attention and take good notes, and then go home and study and make that kind of grade, then I'm going to stop attending class. It's not as productive for me as my independent studying. I've kept going out of guilt. No more. The powerpoint slides, the syllabus, and my 7 textbooks ought to be enough that I can teach this to myself and email professors with questions.
Then that day, we had our last day of gross anatomy class. We dissected the larynx. Now, we no longer have to go down there, except to study our cadavers for our exam on Monday. I'm going to be so happy when I no longer have gross anatomy to worry about.