Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Crunch time

15% of the year's assessment marks hanging in the balance in tomorrow morning's exam..
and here I am wondering how in the world am I going to finish covering the anatomy of the back and upper limbs.. (i hate memorising origins, pathways and supplies of blood vessels and nerves) Lacking sleep and coughing for the past 4 weeks, i'm just flipping through other subjects' notes for this semester, don't even know how much is going into my brain...

What i REALLY don't need at this moment of urgency popped up:
Woken up by Sam at 6am, asking for time and place of his surgical selective (forgot to tell him that he was supposed to go at 8.30 am.. ARGH!!!)
Parents smsed some bad news from back home..
Seniors told me that they got slaughtered last year by behavioural sciences, health enhancement, medical sociology and some stuff from last semester.. stuff nobody bothered to read.. that's in the SAQ where huge chunks of marks lie..
Great.. What now? I shouldn't even be typing this..

Probably need to restructure my study methods a bit.. If a lecture doesn't have notes, I don't really bother listening to the lecturers when they speak.. (yes, i'm a bad listener.. preferring to scribble down every single word they say, go home and draw up my own notes with some references, then do some rote memorising).. that system has served me well all the way til A-Levels, but with up to 26 - 30 contact hours a week now, it's starting to backfire..

Things coming up:
Tomorrow - after exam, either sleep or go for haircut (haven't cut my hair for more than 2 months already leh..), pay bills, research for PCL.. still thinking whether to go for taekwondo (since i'll probably be so worn out by then.. don't afterwards collapse midway through due to exhaustion)
Thursday - Classes 8 til 5, visiting my cousin in city after that.. probably staying overnight..
Friday - Need to get up early to catch train back to campus.. Classes 8 til 4, then need to bake some brownies for CG event..
Saturday - Grocery shopping, meeting regarding surgical selective poster project, need to tidy up my room, need to start doing an assignment which is due in 2 - 3 weeks..
Sunday - church.. 9 til 2 something
Monday - Surgery selective (neck dissection and laryngectomy) at 8.30 am at Monash Medical Centre (MMC).. probably need to wake up at 5am.. excluding classes.. need to also find time to read up 12 pages of detailed procedures of the surgery (from a book the supervising surgeon gave)
Tuesday - meet up with surgeon at 7.00 am.. MMC.. after that classes til 3 something..
Wednesday - taekwondo grading or wait a further one week? (haven't been training lately, still considering.. otherwise money can throw into dustbin already)

Looks like it's going to be another LONG LONG LONG LONG week ahead.. crap.. I was hoping for my misery to end tomorrow..

1 comment:

Sarah said...

ALL THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)