Exhausted
Tomorrow morning I have my Molecular and Cellular Bio exam followed by the IVPACT. Then tomorrow night we have a take home assignment that gets turned in on Friday morning before the second half of the IVPACT exam and then I am OFF (kind of) for a whole week.
I have never studied so hard in my life and felt so disappointed with exams. I feel (along with the majority of my class) that the written exam (aka testing in all of the major "ologies") on Tuesday did not actually test us on what we have have studied this semester. We had about 20 questions on avian anatomy, immunology and reproduction when we only had a 2 day chicken case at the end of the semester, whereas urogenital physiology in other species was a huge topic and was not asked as much or in as much detail! The whole exam was such a disappointment because it did not test us on what we learned this semester but rather in areas that we haven't gone into detail yet. Another thing that was frustrating with the exam was that it asked so many detailed questions in immunology, however, the cases that we were presented with led us to believe that we should approach immunology from more of a microbiology or virology point of view and not in the the specific molecular details of heavy chains etc. I wrote my Masters Thesis in Canine Lymphosarcoma, which is based on immunology and I couldn't answer many of the questions asked on this exam so I don't understand how the professors expected most of the people in my class who have limited immunology experience (usually only one class in undergrad) to be able to answer the questions.
Everyone at school is completely burnt out. After our Anatomy, Histology, Radiology, Pathology and Parisitology Practical Exam today everyone just crashed. I am too overtired to sleep and too exhausted and frustrated to study for my MCB test tomorrow. I am even too tired to pack for spring break.
Even though I am excited to be going to Miami and Minnesota for the SCAVMA conference, I wish that I had a few extra days to reorganize before leaving and starting classes again. I am leaving straight from my IVPACT on Friday morning and I do not get back until the following Sunday evening and classes begin on 8am Monday morning. I have not had the chance to do laundrey, clean, check my personal email or even talk to my friends from home in weeks because of all of the studying that I have been doing. I really hope all of this hard work pays off and I am a good doctor.
The picture above is of the hike that I do a couple of times during the week.
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