Well, as you probably assumed... I'm on holidays :D
It only took weeks and weeks of studying and a month of exams... but FINALLY I am free... Well for the next few weeks anyway :P
My first exam was on the 13th of June... and it was for Maths... after almost an entire semester of detesting maths... and crying every time I tried to study it with no joy... It finally clicked... In about week 11 or 12... I'm not sure what happened, but it just wasn't scary anymore... It made sense and studying it wasn't a stressful tear filled experience... And much to my surprise, I actually ended up being HELPFUL to others in my class... It was really insane!! Anyway, so when the exam came around I was totally ready for it!! I haven't yet got my results back, but I feel I did quiet well... I am hoping for a 5 or 6...
The next exam was Life Science... Which I actually found REALLY hard to study, like not that the content was hard, just it was boring or something.... I just couldn't stay overly focused on it, but I still put in my best effort and again I wasn't nervous on the day of the exam... I don't think I had to guess as many multi choice questions as I thought I would, and I felt pretty good about the short answer questions... so here again I am hoping for a 5 or 6...
After that was Anatomy and Physiology... I'm feeling very confident about this subject as I have well... kicked arse in all assessment (although I haven't received my final results) I was on 55% for he entire unit even before the end of semester exam... So I will be disappointed not to get a 7 for this subject...
Finally, I had chemistry... Which I was completely unprepared for... However, I hadn't realised how far behind I actually was until a few days before the exam when I had time to study... And I looked at my notes and more then half of it didn't even seem familiar... I seriously couldn't even remember learning it and THAT was really scary!! However, I sat down, opened up my text book at Chapter One... and together with my lecture notes I worked though the text book and thoroughly covered up to about week 9... week 10-13 were a bit sketchy as I ran out of time to cover them properly... I had all but convinced myself and my parents that IF I failed Chem it wouldn't be the end of the world and I would make up for it next time!! For this exam, I was nervous... On the train on the way in I had to keep reminding myself to breath :P and I had lots of butterflies in my stomach, but by the time I got to uni Id convinced myself that there was nothing else I can do whatever happens happens... During perusal time... I was too scared to open the booklet... Its funny, normally I'm really keen to get into it and see what the questions are and I do it without hesitation, but with this one... I wanted to open it, but it was like my hands wouldn't do it!! Eventually they did however, and any doubt cleared... I seemed to know a lot more questions then I thought I did.... It was out of 60, and I worked out that I guessed around 20 of them... which is a pretty high rate to guess, but I was expecting to have to guess a lot more! So its fair to say I will be more then stoked with a 4 for chemistry :)
After my semester of uni I am more keen then ever to kick more arse and get even better results next semester! I am REALLY REALLY enjoying my life at the moment and I am really proud of what I am working to do! I really feel like I am on the right track and I am very confident that I will get the GPA I need to transfer into Pharmacy.
But anyway, for now I am relishing in my holidays and trying to work as much as possible to replenish all the spending I did in celebration of finishing my exams :P
My results come out on Monday 9th July, So you'll DEFIANTLY be hearing from me!!
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I was googling the Pharmacy degree at QUT and came across your blog. You look like you're in almost exactly the same place as me, except I did Physical Science (yuck) instead of Anatomy/Physiology this semester. (And I'm probably older :-)) The chemistry exam was nasty... before it came up I was hoping to get a 7! Heh.
Anyhow, good luck with getting into Pharmacy. Hopefully I'll be in Optometry or joining you with the prescription drugs learning. Much chemical memorising ahead!
Heya Sid,
Thats kinda freaky that my blogs are so easy to find :S but kind of cool to find other people in my same situation...
Im not sure if you get sent an email saying I replied to your comment, but if you did, how did your marks go??
Im just about to make a new blog about mine!! I hope you did well!!
I don't get an email notice, but I'd chucked you on my ever expanding list of blogs in Thunderbird, which sucks up updates for me. Creepy, no? :)
I was almost rolling around the floor with glee when I got the marks. GPA sitting at 6.25, woo! 6 in three of the subjects and a 7 in Life Science. Which means I could do Pharmacy, or even Optometry, if can keep this up. So, yes hugely happy. Did you as you expected?
Have you looked at doing Pharmacy at UQ as well as QUT? My partner's aunty is a pharmacist, and I was asking the aunty the other weekend if she'd heard anything about the QUT degree. She said she'd heard it was "very business oriented" in an ominous tone, and recommended I go to UQ. (She could be bias :))
Heya :)
Those marks are awesome!!! I did well, not that well, but I am very happy... My GPA is 5.75 and I got 7 for anatomy, 6 for life science and 5 for maths and chem... I could have done better :) But thats what next semester is for!!
I have reviewed all the Pharmacy courses at UQ, QUT and JCU (townsville) but I am pretty happy with the look of the QUT course. Ive worked in Pharmacy for like 5 years, and in my opinion the UQ course is very old school... Where as the QUT course seems very much orientated towards the way Pharmacy is these days... there seems to be alot more customer based learning and hands on type of stuff... Ive asked my boss about it and he feels the same way, but alot of Pharmacists did thier courses at UQ and would of course have a bias towards that... But Im happy to stick with QUT :) I am confident that there wont be an issue with getting a job out of it, theres so many pharmacists needed :)
But, thats just my opinion. I think though if you really want to do Pharmacy (if you decide on that) I would strongly recommend you trying to get some work as a Pharmacy Assistant... From what I have seen of pre reg's you dont get any product knowledge at uni (not sure if QUT is different) but its seems a big struggle to learn all the shop products while trying to get a grip on the dispensing etc :)
Anyway, I better go cause I gotta go to work... Feel free to email me (lilyprune007@hotmail.com) :)
Toodlies and congrats again :D you should be super proud of your marks!!
5.75 is awesome too! Especially the 7 for Anatomy. I'm very scared of doing Anatomy this semester, I've heard you learn a similar amount of vocabulary to what a student studying a foreign language would in the same timeframe. I spent four years failing French at school! Argh. :)
It's good to hear your boss (I assume is a pharmacist) say good things about QUT. I think I'm worrying because the people I've talked to have been UQ grads, because QTAC ranks a UQ GPA higher, and because QUT's course is all sparkly new. But QUT will credit 6 of this years subjects if you change over into pharmacy. Woo!
There's certainly plenty of pharmacists needed. Are you able to apply for any of the rural scholarships? (For any length of time).
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