First exams: done and done.

Yikes. Really not doing so well with the frequent updates here.

School continues. Lifespan sucked so much, and A&P is so time-consuming, that I dropped Lifespan. I did get 80% of my tuition for Lifespan refunded, so that's a nice chunk of change coming back to me, but I can never get back the 6 hours I spent fighting the urge to fall asleep and covering my textbook pages (and my fingers) in pink highlighter ink. Let's hope there's a better instructor next semester.

My first A&P exam was this morning. I have been studying several hours a day for this exam since early last week. I had to play catch-up big time after failing to crack my book the first two weekends of the semester. (I will NOT let that happen again. Talk about stressful!) However, by this morning, I felt like I had a decent grasp of the material and went in hoping for the best. Fifty multiple-choice questions--your basic scantron test--and we had 50 minutes for the exam. The instructor does make use of the "A and C," "B and C," "all of the above," and "none of the above" options, so it wasn't quite as straightforward as it sounds, but it wasn't super-sneaky either. I only changed two answers once I had them down and spent the most time agonizing over a question that should have been super easy, but somehow my brain was all "Whaaaa?" over it. I finally chose my answer and turned in my answer sheet, and the instructor just happened to step out of the auditorium for a second as I was leaving.

"How'd it go?" she asked.

"There was this one question that should have been ridiculously easy, and I agonized over it, wrote a bunch of notes in the margin, started drawing out the molecules and everything, and I finally picked [answer I'm not allowed to mention on pain of death]."

She gave me a thumbs-up and a smile. "You chose right." Yay!

So with that, I am 99% positive I have an A, and secretly hoping I managed a perfect score. We'll find out tomorrow.

With all of my frantic studying, I got behind in my other class, Medical Terminology. How can you get behind in a self-paced class, you might ask? The syllabus has "suggested dates" for all of the activities, and we were supposed to take Exam One (of four) by September 16. I still had to do both Pretest Four and Exam One, so after walking the dogs, I dove into the medical terminology material. I like it, and it is easy and interesting, so after an hour or so, I was ready to take Pretest Four (perfect score) and Exam One (perfect score, yay!). The best thing about Medical Terminology is that you get your score immediately upon submitting the pretest/exam, so I found out right away that I got the full points on both activities.

A&P, on the other hand, will be posted on-line sometime tomorrow, so until then, I'll just keep refreshing...and refreshing...and refreshing.

Oh, yeah, and studying for lab tomorrow. Never a dull moment around here.