Exam duration: 1 hour
Weight: 12.5%
Format: 4 “short answer” questions (aka shorter essay questions!), 10 marks each.

Time spent: 15 hours in the last 24 hours + more beforehand
Pass rate: Slim

I screwed it.
I screwed it BAD.

I can’t believe this.

During the exam, I got confused with the organisms!

I wrote a whole lot for question one’s organism and wrote nothing for question two’s when the answer I’ve written for question one should be for question two!!!

I mean, we must’ve learnt all the techniques (how certain microorganisms affect their host) for 7 different types of E.coli + other organisms (Samonella, Shigella, Vibrio, Streptococcus pyogenes, Streptococcus pneumonia…), but still!!!

There goes my 50% of the paper, just like that.

Furthermore, I didn’t write in so much detail when that’s what they have been looking for!

How screwed am I?!

I need a free day today… =(

Short second post:

You know that assessment that was supposedly due on Friday 2nd? It’s now due Friday 9th…

Ok… a little better… but I thought guidelines were supposed to be posted 2 weeks’ beforehand? No matter, we have some more time for that 5% report

Great!

Still doesn’t alleviate any stress right now.

So much, so so so much stuff to remember!!!

Spent the past 12 hours studying (from 8-12 = 4 hours… 1-5 = 4 hours & 7-11= 4 hours)

And I don’t seem to remember a single thing!!!

On top of that, I’ve got a few more organisms to cover but it seems I’m not functioning mentally (aka brain dead!)

Sleeping now… And will wake up at 4am tomorrow morning.

Stressing and signing off,
A tired one.

A long long time without any update, and I’m sorry it had to be a bad one.

So where should I start?

It’s about 8am on the Easter public holiday Monday, and I’ve just woken from the most horrid sleep, if I had any at all. The thing is, I think I caught something recently because I was more susceptible (stress from uni and everything),  showing symptoms of a cold/flu yesterday morning. Resting is the key, so I slept most the day away yesterday, even when I had stacks of uni stuff to do (stress tress stress panic!!!)…

Last night at about 3am when I knew I was still awake, I had a throat that bugged me endlessly and one more throat lozenge left… Thinking I’d be able to catch some sleep, I had the final lozenge and dozed off… for 10 minutes. So… more sore throat and fragmented sleep with tossing and turning and weird disjointed dreams… and I ended up like this today (zombie!!).

So not cool!

This semester started a fortnight ago, lasts for 12 weeks excluding holiday breaks (used to be 14 weeks, but they putting 14 weeks of content into the 12 = content overload!) and we were meant to be having our Easter break and mid-session break (yeah, after 2 weeks into it)… Except for one of my subjects, I have to come into lab while everyone was on “mid-session break”, Tuesday to Friday, 9am to 6pm..

So all up, I had 4 days off (Friday to Monday)… Got nothing done as planned (assignments/etc), and feeling worse than ever (because the symptoms have gotten worse), completely unprepared (not up) for the hectic 8 hour lab work starting tomorrow.

So yeah, great timing really.

Ah. *sigh*

I hope you all a merrier Easter than mine.
Surely it must be…?