Mini one!!!!

Hello Everyone!!!  Sorry for the delay in updating the blog but I have been super busy preparing for my first exam.  It has been an exhausting last 2 weeks and I am ready to see places other than campus and my apartment.  Hopefully this weekend my friends and I are going to the beach and partake in some shopping in St. John to celebrate completing and passing our exams!  I think I need a new dress!!!!  The exams here on campus were crazy and nothing short of wild!!!  On Friday we got to complete our first wet lab exam composed of 10 questions.  These questions covered everything and everything related to the cardiovascular system.  The stations included preserved hearts, plasticized hearts, full cadavers, and preserved limbs.  Even had a question or two pertaining to ECG and ECG leads (thought that would only be on the written HSF exam)!!!!  Each station was 30 seconds long and that included your traveling time between stations!!!  Needless to say if you didn't know your stuff you didnt have time to try to figure it out!  It was the quickest 5 minutes of my life!!!!!  It was fun and exciting despite being a test.  I was really surprised to see the large amount of students pacing the pretesting holding area and near break downs!!  Made me kind of scared!

Monday marked the first day of my actually med school exams!  The exams started at 1:30 in the afternoon and went to nearly 7 p.m. that evening.  It is like reliving the mcat over again!!!!  That test must be related to Satan!!!  For each of the 4 sections we got moved to different classrooms and had various assigned seating.  The funny part was that for 3 of the 4 sections I got seated next to some of my closes friends on campus!  So much for that AUA!  There was no time to do anything but book it through each of the sections.  The HSF (human structure and function) section was an hour and a half and 70 questions!  The rest of the sections were shorter but you still just as intense!  After the exams I was so exhausted that I didn't even know how to function!!!!  It felt incredible to be done. I thought it was amazing that my best friend had bought a bottle of champagne at the beginning of the semester to celebrate when we completed our first exam!  It was great to stand out in the parking lot of our apartment and pop the cork and all share out of it to celebrate.  It was delicious!

Our celebration was short lived I went to bed and I had class again the next morning.....back to the grind!  It wasnt too bad though considering I didnt have morning classes and I only had one lecture that afternoon.  Even after class I studied my notes and read the material just to make sure that I dont get behind.  Although I study every night this time I didnt have to cram the night before an exam.  It was a slow progression of learning! 

This past week we didnt have our usual Sunday night dinner! It was sad but I know that we will more than make up for it this uncoming weekend. Last week we had cheese stuffed shells, bread, cookies, and dip! It was amazing and delcious! One of my friend even came up with games for all of us to play. It was nothing short of hysterical! These are some of the picture from the previous weeks dinner....

 

 

 

 

I will do my best to add more to the blog over the next week upcoming days. I need to reflect back on some of the adventure of my friends and I and see what I have missed.....and need to share.  Until next time........