Oh hi again. Let me clarify--I didn't actually take an entire hour to run two miles at the gym yesterday. That would've been super embarrassing. Almost embarrassing as the fact that I went to Starbucks yesterday and bought a buy one get one free deal for myself.
Anyways, I forgot to mention that I survived my first pharmacology test on Friday. Pharmacology is known in these here parts as the most challenging med school course. Our first test covered 160 drugs, their therapeutic uses, side effects, classes, interactions, mechanisms of action, and receptors....in three weeks. There are four more exams to go, and one test has like 230 drugs. The final is cumulative over 900 drugs.
I can't really complain, though. I did well enough on the exam. Not the 100% that I had hoped (literally no one gets this in pharm, ever--in fact, it has the highest fail rate of any class in our curriculum), but I think I'm unrealistically hard on myself for no reason this semester. The test was 2 hours for 38 questions, and for once we had paper exams. For the past year, we have used laptops or computer labs, and each exam has had the same countdown timer, same choices A-E to click, and same heart attack when I click "SUBMIT" and "YES" for "Do you want to see your score?"
I prefer paper. I think. I feel like fewer things go wrong with paper. There's not a computer screen to freeze or mouse to stop working or browser to crash. I like writing things down and find filling in scantrons to be satisfying. It's easier for me to handle, overall.
Anyways. Now that the Friday exams have started, they're not stopping until Thanksgiving. Here we go.
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There is no shame. I got the buy one get one free for myself as well! One salted caramel mocha frap and one iced PSL. The PSL is still in my fridge. I'm not THAAAT crazy to drink both in one go. :P
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