Almost.....end of first semester

Almost.....end of first semester

9.24.2014

Well.. it is not an entirely exciting or thrilling phase to be in, that is, in the last remaining weeks of the first semester of my first year in medical school.

Although I have managed to (surprisingly) increase my Physiology grade by 4 (huge) points, and my Anatomy by 2 (meager) points, I totally let my grade in Biochemistry go down the drain. The worse part was that I made a conscious decision to set aside studying for the Biochem 2nd Long Exam just to finish the series finale of.........The Pretty Little Liars. I know, I am quite the pathetic kind. :( I never thought I would regret this, seriously! I was well aware that my grade would go down as a consequence of not studying for this subject (which happens to be the first year subject where most students fail) but I never really expected to regret it this much! I feel gravely disappointed with myself because I was already in such a safe place and then I dug my own hole.

I think the downside of having six long examinations is that students (like me) think there are five more chances, in my case, four (long examinations ahead) to pull grades up. The upside however, is that we actually do have more opportunities to (painstakingly) pass! Taking more long examinations and observing cumulative grade-point system are considerably advantageous especially for students who are still adjusting to the load of work in med school.

Honestly..as much as I am anxious about pulling my grade up, I am actually not that fearful of not being able to do so because..I believe I can. Naks! haha hashtag panindigan. Looking at my performance during our first Biochem long exam, I actually did okay. I did more than pass. Hence, I just need to use that confidence I had during the first long exam to pump my spirits up and never give up on studying dephosphorylation of HMG-CoA reductase...addition of 3rd molecule of Acetyl CoA to Acetoacetyl CoA (obviously, our current topic is Cholesterol Metab lol).

As what I have been told by my idol, Dr. Emil Aligui, "Kapit lang." 

And kapit I will.

Quick post

Quick post

6.19.2014

I have been meaning to write a post about my first week in Med School but, I never imagined that I would never have the time to even open a webpage in my netbook!

And since I should be doing advanced reading tonight on Epithelial Glands which were all too simple in undergrad and the extreme opposite of what it is now in Medicine, I will share some things through bullet points. :s

• I only accessed the internet because 1) I needed to encode my personal info in the online google drive document for class, and more importantly, 2) I had to email the Editor of a Philippine journal I used to work for.
• I have had two terrible headaches from listening to classes this week. My official first week in Med School. And it was caused by not doing advanced reading. 
• During the first and the second day of classes, I was contemplating whether I would continue this course because it is really, really, really hard to the nth level. Hard is an understatement, I think. I thought thesis was hard!
• My newly purchased Biochem book was stained with either coffee or yakult and I really really hated the feeling of knowing this and seeing this! I mean I have only opened that book twice! I am OC when it comes to books.
• It's now 11:06, and I only have 54 make that 53 now, minutes, to do advanced reading (on only 1 topic, sadly).
• I am proud that I have not been late in class since the second day and that I now wake up at 5.30 or 6 am compared to 10 or 11 am, sometimes even at 12 nn when I was working.
• And yes, I was fortunate to be awarded the scholarship, for a year. I need to maintain at least a grade of 85 in all subjects to be able to avail of an academic scholarship next year (I think, I heard, I was told...?)
• Lastly, there is no removals.
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Update: average of 2.00 required for partial academic scholarship, no grade below 2.5