I have not written in some time eh? Well that’s me finished the teaching part of my second year and boy has it flown in! I successfully passed the first semester courses, including building an organism!

I’ve not been a very good student this semester to  be honest. I have been to pretty much every lecture of Infection, Cells, Drugs and Reproduction but have been to about five of Neuroscience and one of Molecules of Life. It’s the nine o’clock starts!!!!  And as for Molecules, well if I don’t go to that lecture, I can stay in bed until 9 on Thursdays and 10 on Fridays rather than having to get up at 7!  I’ve really enjoyed the four subjects I have gone to though, my favourite being Infection, if only for Professor Kennedy who just gets so excited about parasitic worms, it’s really hard to miss!

I’m currently typing up all of my notes in preparation for studying rather than what I did last year where I was still copying up notes the night before the exam in a desperate hope the information would somehow penetrate my brain without me consciously thinking about it! So I’m all full of good intentions of having everything copied up in the next week or so and then I can get down to remembering it!

I’ve done not bad in my coursework, however I was downgraded a grade for pretty much all my class tests as I chose those 5 days to go to New York with my boyfriend. (It was absolutley fantastic by the way, well worth a few grades!) So instead of getting A’s and B’s, I’ve ended up with C’s and D’s in coursework, so I must work a whole grade harder in the degree exam!

We’ve also been thinking about which degree to go into. I have been in quite a dilemma over this! i want to go into Medicine after this degree, so have been trying to find out if any degree is more “desirable” than another for gaining entry. Turns out you can have a degree in anything to get in! So then I was stuck on whether to take a degree that gave me good career options as a back-up in case I didn’t get into medicine or whether to take a degree I would really enjoy. So I was stuck between Pharmacology for its definite career path, Neuroscience for its stigma in being a “brainy persons” subject and anatomy for the pure fun of chopping up people. To be honest, I would hate pharmacology because I have hated learning about drug metabolism etc this year and neuroscience, well as I’ve said I’ve not been to much of!

I have opted for anatomy. I wonder if I will look back on this post with regret or not…

Aside from studies, I was in my first cheer leading competition in February! We did really well, it was the first time we had entered that particular competition and we won dance and came forth in stunting so I was REALLY chuffed for us all! We have another competition in April which is a BCA competition so it’s a biggie!

I suppose I should stop blethering and get on with work!