Almost outta here....

So it's sunday afternoon, and i'm very, very close to leaving. I should be in San Juan at this time tomorrow (YAY!!!).

This semester went well for me. I was a little scared of physio towards the end. The pulmonary section was a joke. Our prof was from UC San Diego who also worked at NASA. I'm sure in his head he knew the stuff but his ability to teach it to medical students with no Ph.D training was horrendous. Unfortunately, he never really explained anything. He would back up what he was explaining by saying "See, the graph shows this." I quickly realized that pulmonists love graphs, and probably spend hours dreaming up new ways to make graphs. I have never seen one in my life with 3 labeled sides and no title but there it was in class waiting for our interpretation. The book that the prof kept refering to was written by a well known physiologist who also didn't explain anything (and also had alot of graphs). So i spent a large part the time using two crappy references to try to understand a very, very difficult topic.

The physio test went well until question 50....that is when for the next 24 questions I struggled with trying to use my limited pulmonary knowledge to answer 10th order questions that just didn't make sense. I felt overall that i had the main concepts down in terms of what happens, I just had a hard time applying multiple ones to the questions. But, I made sure that i knew renal and endocrine really well and that definitely helped me on this test. In the end, I got a B and that was exactly what I wanted.

Neuro went extremely well. No real complaints from the test. As always the questions were fair. But i did feel the test was a little too general in asking about our knowledge which is funny since alot of people thought this was a hard test. I was surprised that we spent time on subjects like Alzheimers and there were no questions on the test. I got an A so i'm really happy about that.

I also took the BSCE (basic skills comp exam) and it went okay. I realized I need to do some major review in embryo and a little more in biochem, but the anatomy portion was good. I will get my grade back on that exam late next week.

Overall, I did well this term. All A's and B's. Next term will be a huge challenge with 13 credit path and micro on top of that. But I'm ready and looking forward to it.