Well today is officially the first day of spring break! I unofficially started mine last thursday though. I only had Music and Physics, and lets be honest, Music isn't important and extremely easy and Physics....Well I just don't learn anything in lecture. The Physics teacher is great, he's the stereotypical physics professor. Crazy hair, big glasses, very lanky, and full of energy. I joked with my friend Alex (who took his class with me in Physics 1) that he was Marlowe's long lost son.
For my first day I decided to start studying for the MCAT. I got a lot of material from www.isohunt.com such as Kaplan's Premier Program, Exam Kracker's complete prep package, and even the Kaplan's teachers Edition that is used in the class room. I read the intro and it pretty much reiterated what Rishabh told me. It tests critical thinking and the key is to have CONFIDENCE. He jokingly told me that I can just cut a check of $1800 straight to him. Which is pretty much true. It's a shame how Kaplan is ripping people off. But Rishabh is the one that made a 35, so I will listen to him. Well I've been procrastinating all day, I need to get serious and hit the books...........
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Argh! It's hard. I know I'm going to kill the MCAT, but I need to work hard to do so. I'm still working on my game plan. What I think i'm going to do is read the supplemental guides, courtesy of Kaplan and Exam Krackers, then do tons of practice tests! I'm thinking about taking the tests slow, looking at each individual question and answer it. If I am not sure, I will look in the textbook and reread the section on what I missed. Do that for each section of the test. And after a couple of months of doing that start taking the full length practice exams in the actual testing conditions. The biggest thing I'm worried about is the fundamentals of math that is required. Adding/Subtracting/Multiplying in scientific notation has me worried. But I figure a quick review in math will help with that. Well, it looks like it's time to get my hands dirty!
March 9, 2009
March 8, 2009
Time marches on....
It's spring break again. I can't believe how much time has gone by, it seems just like yesterday I was in Biology 121 (it's actually been 2 full years). I turned 21 a few days ago. Being old pretty much sucks. On the bright side when I'm out with some buddies at a restaurant I can actually say, "Have a round on me," "Next rounds on me, guys," or something cool like that.
Oh yeah, I never put my grades up from last semester. It was a bit disappointing, but it definitely could have been much worse. Biochemistry was a beast. I only know of one person that made an A, and unfortunately, that person wasn't me. Someone said that there were 3 A's in the whole class (2 classes of 24), but I have yet to meet these other people with the alleged A. As for Genetics, I should have made an A in there. The only reason why I ended up with such a low grade is because that witch grades the homework with ridiculous expectations. Countless times I put the right answer, but because the answer wasn't from her notes, it was wrong!!! Well we win some and lose some, this is my first C in a science class and hopefully will be the last. Anyways, here they are
Biochemistry: B
Physics 1 lecture: B
Physics 1 Lab: A
Genetics: C (I'm definitely retaking this class)
Freshman Seminar: A
As for this semester (Spring of '09), I took a few classes. I was supposed to have 15 hours, but since the jackasses at Chattanooga State (community colleges....go figure) are never at their office, I wasn't able to submit a closed class form and get into the Precalculus 2 online class. With my car being broken down still for the past five FUCKING months, I couldn't drive to another campus. My schedule ended up being:
BIOL 330 HISTOLOGY MW 1200-1250
BIOL 330 HISTOLOGY LAB MW 230- 420
MUS 111 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC TT 800- 915
PHYS 104 GENERAL PHYSICS 2 TT 1215- 130
PHYS 184 GEN PHYS LAB 2:ELEC & OPTS W 100- 250
Histology class is extremely interesting. I recommend anyone to take this class. The professor of this class happens to know a lot of people at UT Memphis medical school (the school I want to get in), so hopefully I can impress the professor and have a good word put in for me. The way she grades is sick. Even with my excellent answers she takes off points for the most monotonous BS ever.
With the academics aside, things are going alright in my personal life. I live on campus so I have a lot more free time and I'm getting to know a lot of people. Unfortunately I recently found out that the girl I've liked since forever is a smoker. Not only that she has a tattoo. If that's not enough, she's getting ANOTHER! Why do girls insist on marking up their bodies, especially when they are so perfect the way they are? Even today, I was messaging this one girl that I *was* interested in. She was all like, "omg guess what!" and of course I was like, "lol What?" The response was, "i got a tat thursday!" I didn't even respond. I just closed my phone and left it at that. She was so cute too. I know, I know, you're probably thinking that i'm such a jerk by judging girls like that. I'm not judging, I'm just not remotely interested in girls that have "tats" or smoke! I mean think about it, when you hear of the word tattoos and smoking, what comes to mind? For some reason, cute little hearts and angels don't come into mind. I think of big bikers in bars, hairy fat bikers with lots of leather (okay, leather can be sexy, but not in this case). Plus it's just weird to me being able to say, "My girlfriend has a tattoo and she smokes" Everyone around would probably chime in, "Wutta guy!" If you're into that stuff then whatever, I'm just elaborating on my view of the situation. I'm going to be a doctor, I would like someone that is as conservative and high class as I am. The girl must not be more masculine than me.
Tomorrow I'm going to the old McDonalds spot and start tearin up this MCAT prep material so I can kill it and get into Johns Hopkins....Right? Okay fine; So I can get into UTM Med School....
Oh yeah, I never put my grades up from last semester. It was a bit disappointing, but it definitely could have been much worse. Biochemistry was a beast. I only know of one person that made an A, and unfortunately, that person wasn't me. Someone said that there were 3 A's in the whole class (2 classes of 24), but I have yet to meet these other people with the alleged A. As for Genetics, I should have made an A in there. The only reason why I ended up with such a low grade is because that witch grades the homework with ridiculous expectations. Countless times I put the right answer, but because the answer wasn't from her notes, it was wrong!!! Well we win some and lose some, this is my first C in a science class and hopefully will be the last. Anyways, here they are
Biochemistry: B
Physics 1 lecture: B
Physics 1 Lab: A
Genetics: C (I'm definitely retaking this class)
Freshman Seminar: A
As for this semester (Spring of '09), I took a few classes. I was supposed to have 15 hours, but since the jackasses at Chattanooga State (community colleges....go figure) are never at their office, I wasn't able to submit a closed class form and get into the Precalculus 2 online class. With my car being broken down still for the past five FUCKING months, I couldn't drive to another campus. My schedule ended up being:
BIOL 330 HISTOLOGY MW 1200-1250
BIOL 330 HISTOLOGY LAB MW 230- 420
MUS 111 INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC TT 800- 915
PHYS 104 GENERAL PHYSICS 2 TT 1215- 130
PHYS 184 GEN PHYS LAB 2:ELEC & OPTS W 100- 250
Histology class is extremely interesting. I recommend anyone to take this class. The professor of this class happens to know a lot of people at UT Memphis medical school (the school I want to get in), so hopefully I can impress the professor and have a good word put in for me. The way she grades is sick. Even with my excellent answers she takes off points for the most monotonous BS ever.
With the academics aside, things are going alright in my personal life. I live on campus so I have a lot more free time and I'm getting to know a lot of people. Unfortunately I recently found out that the girl I've liked since forever is a smoker. Not only that she has a tattoo. If that's not enough, she's getting ANOTHER! Why do girls insist on marking up their bodies, especially when they are so perfect the way they are? Even today, I was messaging this one girl that I *was* interested in. She was all like, "omg guess what!" and of course I was like, "lol What?" The response was, "i got a tat thursday!" I didn't even respond. I just closed my phone and left it at that. She was so cute too. I know, I know, you're probably thinking that i'm such a jerk by judging girls like that. I'm not judging, I'm just not remotely interested in girls that have "tats" or smoke! I mean think about it, when you hear of the word tattoos and smoking, what comes to mind? For some reason, cute little hearts and angels don't come into mind. I think of big bikers in bars, hairy fat bikers with lots of leather (okay, leather can be sexy, but not in this case). Plus it's just weird to me being able to say, "My girlfriend has a tattoo and she smokes" Everyone around would probably chime in, "Wutta guy!" If you're into that stuff then whatever, I'm just elaborating on my view of the situation. I'm going to be a doctor, I would like someone that is as conservative and high class as I am. The girl must not be more masculine than me.
Tomorrow I'm going to the old McDonalds spot and start tearin up this MCAT prep material so I can kill it and get into Johns Hopkins....Right? Okay fine; So I can get into UTM Med School....
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