can't get the best of both worlds
Nov 22, 2009 @ 1:03 AM
the first paper was a serious wake-up call about the sheer intensity of pharmacy papers. really reminded me that its no freaking use in reading the entire syllabus three times, when you take ages to vomit the information out just to answer 1 stupid MCQ question about dilution. sometimes i wish i had a vampire's speed for that.
there were 60 MCQs and 3 structured, and logically, you're supposed to allocate an hour to each of the sections. but MCQs took me like 1.5 hours to finish. so at 1030am, i was starting my first structured question only. i tell you, the adrenaline rush was so powerful, my hands were trembling all the way and it was so hard to write.
and if that wasn't enough, eric chan came over and stared at my paper for 2 seconds before doing a mock hop of surprise, pointed to his watch and reminded me that i needed to hurry up because there's only half an hour left.
i swear i broke up into cold sweat after that from the sheer embarrassment and panic.
screwed the last 6 marks of IR and did a random match of compounds to the pictures. haha not bad, i think 1 out of 3 are correct. but i couldn't have pushed my luck that far la, considering i only had 30 seconds to make a decision.
well, what matters is that ITS OVER!! and i dont have to memorize K bands and B bands (and no, they are so not the same as korean boy bands), or remember what a nebulizer is, or drawing the egg-yolk drawings of aniline so many times until i remember the nitrosation reaction (hey hey! came in handy today at least).
then i did 6 hours of stats today until i gonged. gah, 8 more days of this nonsense! i was so stressed that i went to watch twilight again for the 3rd time and feel my heart pop into my mouth everytime edward cullen makes an appearance- yup, that is alot of heart-popping. and then i watched gossip girl and i have Bad Romance stuck in my head, which is BADDD because now i want to go clubbing ):
RO MA RO MA MA!!
haha anyway, i finally signed my sponsorship bond. payday is coming on Dec 7 for the month of oct and nov. what a great way to start the fabulous month of Dec (:
but for now, intense mugging until i attain pharmacist's nirvana- the absolute state of enlightenment, when i can just look at a question and retrieve the answer to it from my mental database at lightning speed. who needs 2 hours when the only rate-limiting step will be the time taking for me to shade the OAR or write down the answer neatly?
chij toapayoh